Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In this instance I have a better chance of getting the ball close by using the slope to let the ball run down to the flag .
2 Now I 've got that off my chest I have a few questions for you :
3 Anybody wants some copies I have a few copies here .
4 In the spare bedroom I had a demountable work-bench with a vice and an array of small tools .
5 It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur .
6 Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home .
7 For the short term I have a few suggestions .
8 ‘ You 'll remember my sayin' I had a few aces up m'sleeve , when we discussed our lack of numbers an ’ the possibility of these people operatin' outside patrols ? ’
9 There arises the problem of reconciling a religion which has a unique Christ ( who in his human nature is male ) with feminism .
10 This is the major challenge for the training programme which has a vital part to play in shaping the success of the new arrangements .
11 The disk is pentagonal , up to 90 mm in diameter and covered with small stumpy spinelets which have a multipointed crown .
12 In ordinary cars the higher temperature is produced by having a higher compression ratio and one is used to having high performance cars which have a high compression ratio and need special grades of petrol to avoid knocking and pinking and other effects detrimental to the car , and of course that leads to the need for lead to be added to petrol to stop knocking .
13 This smaller team takes records to shops which have a high singles turnover and also carries the most popular current albums to top up a shop 's supply of its best-selling products .
14 By juggling with various permutations of bulky groups ( R , R , and R in the diagram ) , Busch has managed to make a complex which has a good affinity for oxygen and is stable .
15 Some words which had a fixed meaning under the old law were retained , e.g. " receive " in handling , and " menaces " in blackmail .
16 Each firmlet offers a single offering to customers , an offering which has a unique set of potential customers and competitors .
17 a popular serif typeface used in magazines and books for text setting which has a large x-height and an open appearance .
18 In a devastating criticism Jeffrey Stanyer concluded ‘ that the Maud Committee must be regarded as one of the most disastrous uses of an advisory committee that can be envisaged , if one asks and expects that an advisory committee will provide an authoritative analysis of the problems set by its terms of reference , and by rigorous reasoning propose defensible solutions which have a practical use ’ ( Stanyer 1970:66 — 7 ) .
19 Here the philosophy is to go and find the clients in a range of sectors which have a compatible style and approach leaving the other clients to seek their executive search needs elsewhere .
20 Similarly , Cambridge English was originally sustained by the achievements of literary modernism which had a new agenda to write .
21 I had found a chiton living on the back of a rock which had a zoanthid colony growing on it .
22 So when would a rule or practice which had a discriminatory effect be ‘ justifiable ’ ?
23 Avoid excessive amounts of caffeine ( in coffee , tea , Cola drinks ) , especially before sleeping , as it is a stimulant which has a direct effect on the nervous system .
24 Next to the central hall was a smaller tepidarium and , beyond , the caldarium which had a domed roof .
25 Another Scourie loch which has a delightful story does not really lie within the boundary of the hotel fishings .
26 Amy was picking at the letters of the typewriter which had a persistent tendency to stick .
27 Pachinko is a £3.8bn-a-year industry which has a Svengali-like hold over a quarter of the adult population .
28 In these cells the cervical protein which has a higher affinity than Oct-1 for the URR ( 15 ) will bind to the octamer motif .
29 He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology .
30 Now , with the Art Dealers Association you have a professional group that could call and say to the dealer , ‘ Listen , that picture is wrong .
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