Example sentences of "have [am/are] " in BNC.
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1 | Layton put it somewhat differently when he added that ‘ the two great qualities a young writer has are his arrogance and inexperience , ’ and on another occasion he picked out the twin characteristics of ‘ precocity and independence . ’ |
2 | I was glad to see Ezra , because what biased attitudes he has are so biased that he manages to be , all round , a more generous-minded and discriminating person that others who spread their capacity for bias over their entire mental outlook ’ . |
3 | ‘ You do n't have to tell me , ’ Gaily said , ‘ that all the clothes either of us has are in the bag or on our backs . ’ |
4 | The Tories are , wisely , keeping their boy away from most of the rough stuff — rightly recognising that such strengths as he has are in his niceness — but he has to look like he wants to win sometimes . |
5 | When the algorithm starts with an empty grammar , the only symbols it has are those in the text . |
6 | We must accept that for any given F , if x has F , x has it necessarily ; i.e. all the properties that x has are its defining properties . |
7 | Right , oh yes it 's got a , a lot of discrepancies , but the point is that the discrepancies it has are explicable in terms of what the discrepancies were trying to hide and correct and to that extent it 's a bit like psychoanalysing an individual patient . |
8 | Such aspirations as he has are short-lived , stick almost in the throat , as the notes of the song might in the throat of an unconfident would-be singer . |
9 | And the only clothes I 've ever had are my cloaks . |
10 | The good they have done and the influence they have had are known to God and cherished in the hearts of those who remember gratefully their words and their work . |
11 | ‘ The only real wives I have ever had are my sailing ships ’ , he is reputed to have once said . |
12 | The only luxuries she has had are a holiday in America , a new car and a few home improvements . |
13 | Where such ideas ultimately came from and what practical consequences they have had are questions which , on the whole , I have preferred to avoid . |
14 | Those two that we 've had are fl are flowers . |
15 | Some of the dreams I 've had are just really odd , sorry but dreaming about a white hearse is just |
16 | That tour to Australia is just one highlight in a busy itinerary for the Gala stand-off : ‘ I have had am ambition to play at the Hong Kong Sevens and was simply thrilled to have been invited to join the Irish Wolfhounds squad for this year 's tournament . |
17 | Before you start thinking about mood and atmosphere , or revving up the party machine , what you must have are the facts . |
18 | Concentration on the imposition of duties does not , however , distort our understanding of authority since all the other functions authorities may have are ultimately explained by reference to the imposition of duties . |
19 | All the superintendent must have are reasonable grounds for believing that an offence is a serious arrestable one ; this safeguard , therefore , is obviated where the police think one of these vague and undefined consequences might occur . |
20 | The mechanisms of control and the latitude which such schools would have are still unclear and are being studied by the Ministry of Education . |
21 | Any interests that animals might legitimately have are not merely ignored , they are not even considered . |
22 | The three main things which a measurement device must have are : |
23 | And the stars he does have are not going to get any better . |
24 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
25 | Any fears you may have are , believe me , like Maidstone United , completely groundless . |
26 | The only " properties " that numbers can have are " relational properties " , and are moreover such as presuppose a basic parity in logical status as between related terms ( which distinguishes them , among others , from the so-called " mental " relations ) . |
27 | You see , you could say , surely there should n't be a weaning conflict , because an offspring should say to itself , okay , my mother wants to wean me , to have more offspring , but those offspring she 's gon na have are my siblings , I 'm very closely related to them . |
28 | Any additional comments you may have are welcome , but please note that this Directive is mandatory within the UK . |
29 | To set the problem in more concrete terms , we must seek an answer to the question as to why make and have are followed by the bare infinitive , while cause , occasion , get and all the other causatives are construed with to infinitives . |
30 | What you would n't have are redundancy costs , because you make people redundant and it also costs money , does n't it ? |