Example sentences of "have [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another advantage the Discovery has is permanent , rather than part-time , four-wheel drive . |
| 2 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 3 | What it has is a big dictionary of words and synonyms classified by type ( people , locations , actions , etc ) and connected by their most likely relationships . |
| 4 | For people already inclined to be critical of Mr Bush , it is easy to leap from saying that he can not articulate a policy to saying that he does not have one , or that such policy as he has is flawed . |
| 5 | They are free to be energetic and enterprising ; they are equally free to be lethargic and dilatory ; the self-respect of the voluntary group depends on the fact that any success it has is due to its own efforts . |
| 6 | One advantage the DST has is that most French people accept a far greater degree of personal documentation and registration of their whereabouts than would be acceptable in Britain or America . |
| 7 | The effect this has is illustrated once again by chromium hexacarbonyl . |
| 8 | It has been said that Ian McShane has a footballer 's haircut , but in fact what he now has is a football manager 's haircut . |
| 9 | If you have a really warm relationship with your elderly parent and the two of you communicate well , you may also be able to help her a good deal by occasional discussions on attitudes generally in bereavement and the more positive aspects of what has been such a tragic and painful experience for her ; steering her tenderly towards the realisation that what she now has is not only what Dylan Thomas 's wife described as ‘ left-over life to kill ’ , but left-over love to give , which is a very different thing . |
| 10 | Not that perspective — which denotes visual orderliness — is the right word , since the decisive characteristic of the 100-mile city is that whatever order it has is invisible . |
| 11 | New Zealander Chisholm has is expected to be off work for two weeks . |
| 12 | Everybody would prefer a low rate of VAT but it has is has been accepted that that is a non-starter politically . |
| 13 | And this applies particularly when the actual freedom for manoeuvre that a teacher has is limited . |
| 14 | Cling to them , and their love for you , for the Place of the Succulent Rock is about to shake and tremble , and in such a time all a soul has is the company of its loving like . |
| 15 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 16 | Not , they 're not , no , the one I 've , the one the group has is , is a general one it 's on Amnesty 's work . |
| 17 | If gaining information is one skill , filtering what one has is another . |
| 18 | The speed it has is for motorway shunting . |
| 19 | The subjectivity she has is as a subject who desires to be object-a subject who wants only to satisfy the wants of the Master . |
| 20 | The only responsibility the writer has is to get his words right and that takes care of everything else that the novel , or short story is capable of . |
| 21 | One of the great difficulties a teacher has is to recognise a good drawing or painting from a bad one — or to know when a child has achieved through his effort a simple personal expression . |
| 22 | Libraries in general have an image of unparticularized worthiness and sobriety , and many young librarians have an admirable messianic zeal about them , a firm belief that what their library has is good for people and that membership lists and issue figures must be pushed up for their own sake . |
| 23 | What Lorne , has , the concern Lorne has is , is that he does n't want that tape , finding its way out of our |
| 24 | Well the man in the white waistcoat followed the gentleman with the white waistcoat into even if he gets stuck in a chimney , worse thing that he the gentleman in the white waistcoat appeared his only chance he has is |
| 25 | It shows that it is no use simply announcing that you can conceive of another 's pain on the grounds that you can suppose that what he has is the same as what you have . |
| 26 | The first mention of £100 clearly demands an ‘ at least ’ interpretation ; what Arthur has is ‘ exactly ’ £100 ; one might therefore not expect the it of the second sentence to be able to refer anaphorically to £100 in the first sentence without antagonism . |
| 27 | All that he has is a right to apply for postponement under section 5(2) . |
| 28 | Although any one assignment which the company has is of short duration , the company itself continues in being , following up that assignment by another . |
| 29 | years has has is an experiment . |
| 30 | The only prior knowledge a baby has is what is in its chromosomes , and chromosomes do not encode that sort of knowledge . |