Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | $10,000,000 or more — about 3,600 companies — would either be taxed at a rate of 0.175 per cent of their capital base or have to pay a 3 per cent corporate tax surcharge , whichever was higher . |
| 2 | Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing . |
| 3 | A horse that has spotted a possible predator arouses other horses ' attention in this way , and they all prepare for flight . |
| 4 | Violent headaches which may be from exposure to a dry cold wind that has stopped a nasal catarrh from flowing . |
| 5 | Moreover , it has a culture which is built on a history of defensive skirmishes and has generated a metaphorical language of warfare which looms large in all of its structures of significance . |
| 6 | Sri Lanka had been at the forefront of Asian intellectual thinking and had gained a good reputation for human rights and civil liberty before these recent years of violence and oppression . |
| 7 | THORN EMI Software , the computer services division of the electronics and entertainment group , has been bought out by its staff and management in an £82m deal and has taken a new name . |
| 8 | The officials who control Premier League and Football League matches want a better deal and have produced a 14-page discussion document listing their main problems . |
| 9 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 10 | He began in the then Sales Department and has retained a special interest in the public house operations side of the business . |
| 11 | For twenty five years he has been a member of Equity and has played a different number of roles . |
| 12 | No reduction in damages was made for the plaintiff 's failure to wear a seat belt even though he was found after the collision hanging out of the defendant 's car and had suffered a severe blow to the head . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ The cadet centre is out of sight at the rear of Marton Sixth Form College and has suffered a dramatic drop in numbers attending . ’ |
| 14 | In early March Saudi Arabian companies had started trucking food into Kuwait and had launched a major refuse clearing operation . |
| 15 | On my smallholding , I have lofts above the cow-byre and have built a traditional-style three-bay barn of concrete blocks and slate roof . |
| 16 | Throughout this period older men and women in this country have preferred to live in their own homes and have maintained a strong belief in independence . |
| 17 | ‘ But for SeaCat the Northern Ireland public would still be travelling in mundane vessels and having to pay a hefty price for the privilege . ’ |
| 18 | Manager Ray Hankin has no injury worries but has delayed a final choice . |
| 19 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 20 | Nor do the majority of umpires when having found a satisfactory distance at which to stand . |
| 21 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 22 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 23 | The recourse to respirators and cardiac pace-makers that has made a legal definition of death based upon the absence of breathing and heartbeat outmoded is a good example . |
| 24 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 25 | Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses ! |
| 26 | In looking at him , Maria sees an aspect of herself , Pierre sees the outcome of the jealousy — a death — and the reader witnesses an internal struggle that has found a public stage . |
| 27 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
| 28 | Once it meant political independence and freedom from commercial pressures , but given the increasingly prescriptive and bureaucratic nature of grant-aid that has become a dubious notion . |
| 29 | There were several species , most were about the size of those living today but with the dragonflies as with millipedes and other groups that have pioneered a new environment , the absence of competition allowed some early forms to develop to an enormous size , and dragonflies eventually appeared with a wingspan of 70 centimetres , the largest insects ever to exist . |
| 30 | For example , what might apply erm on a one year old vehicle that 's done ten thousand miles , might not apply on a vehicle that 's done a hundred thousand miles and is ten years old . |