Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has half an eye on where the gun went . |
| 2 | He no longer writes in the evenings but still has half an acre of land and now has four beautiful little children . |
| 3 | Jopling senior , who farms near Northallerton , has half an eye on becoming Father of the House a title likely to pass to Edward Heath ( debut 1950 ) next time . |
| 4 | It would be nice , for example , to do all your own minor operations … remove cysts , do stitching and all these sorts of , eh well , do a complete work-out for somebody with say cardiovascular problems — but this needs half an hour at least … . |
| 5 | Precedent 4 contains such an undertaking and explains the steps that should be taken to obtain the benefit of s 6(8) . |
| 6 | But not the manual steering , which again has such an effect on the driving character of the car that it is impossible to overlook . |
| 7 | This large hotel has such an enormous range of facilities that you will never be short of things to do . |
| 8 | For example , at the time of writing every nation in South America except Paraguay has such an institution . |
| 9 | How has such an approach been operationalized in child abuse research and how appropriate is it ? |
| 10 | ‘ At first the idea of writing a wind serenade to precede The Marriage of Figaro was daunting : it has such an exciting overture , it certainly needs no further curtain-raiser — and what if I took a theme from the opera and overdid it , so no wanted to hear it in its proper place ? |
| 11 | There is no indication in the Peace Treaty that the United States has such an obligation , or can claim such a right . |
| 12 | " She has such an odd name . |
| 13 | Most of what remains of Needwood Forest in Staffordshire has such an appearance , as has Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire the latter dating from 1829 . |
| 14 | Of all the movements in art history , none has such an ambivalent relationship with the female body as Surrealism . |
| 15 | The argument is that section 47 can not stand because it is inconsistent with article 30 of the Treaty , a provision having direct effect which prohibits between member states quantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having equivalent effect ; it is said that the prohibition against Sunday trading in this country has such an effect . |
| 16 | Here again , provided the driver has such an opportunity , I can see nothing in the language of the statute which would justify a procedural requirement that the driver be invited to express his own preference for giving blood or urine , either before a constable indicates which specimen he will require or at all . |
| 17 | We must admit that it looks to us like a very good match , and it is only because she is marrying Steven that she has such an idealized view of what men and marriage are really like . |
| 18 | Since the death rate after upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage from all causes rises sharply in the elderly one might be forgiven for assuming that this section of the population has such an appalling outlook that variceal haemorrhage should be most humanely ‘ treated with limited transfusion and sedation . ’ |
| 19 | The importance of early recognition of Crohn 's disease before it has such an adverse impact on linear growth is highlighted . |
| 20 | History as a method of enquiry is particularly suitable for the primary school where the pupil-centred , enquiry based approach has such an important role . |
| 21 | Nowhere else in Europe has such an unfair tax . |
| 22 | No other region in the whole of Britain has such an alarming growth rate in unemployment , ’ he said . |
| 23 | QA standards , such as BS 5750 , formally demonstrate and certify that a company has such an ability . |
| 24 | It turns out that the component in the venom of this snake that has such an effect binds to the muscle receptor on human muscle and other animals ' muscles , and it binds there much more tightly than the natural chemical transmitter , which is called estialcodine , thereby preventing the transmission of the nerve impulse to the muscle and gives the victim instant miocenia and presumably a nice meal for the snake in due time . |
| 25 | oh I 've seen these before , that water looks mucky an all |
| 26 | Erm , I think you should involve them but I think it 'll be preferable if it was one to one with the form tutor i that time and the form tutor has taking an over-view |
| 27 | Perhaps this constitutes such an acknowledgement . |
| 28 | The immediate practical problem that confronts such an approach is how to determine what items do exist in an ontologically fundamental sense ; or , to phrase it differently , what objects do qualify as " genuine " ontological objects ? |
| 29 | Again Moloney offers such an analysis of the younger DUP activists : ‘ … men like Robinson , Allister and Kane who are at the start of political careers know that the negative politics practised for so long by their leader would deny them the office and power that could be theirs . ’ |
| 30 | It is perhaps arguable , though , that we should recognize structures based on assignment of equation where the two intensional elements are properties ; thus a sentence such as small is beautiful might be represented as : ( 36 ) small is beautiful On the other hand , it may be that the human mind only represents such an equational assignment to itself by first making an entity-concept out of the ideas on each side . |