Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , your mum on a Saturday used to have a gigantic salad sandwich ! |
| 2 | It is a truism that the executive search consultant hired has a stronger influence on the person eventually put on the short list of candidates than the client . |
| 3 | ( See Table ) Peter Brooke , educated at Marlborough , Balliol College , Oxford and Harvard , is an old-school Tory known to have a keen interest in pictures and in conservation , especially of churches . |
| 4 | All microbe-associated parthenogenetic strains examined have a cytogenetic mechanism of parthenogenesis ( gamete duplication ) that differs from those with genetic parthenogenesis ( ref. 19 ; R. S. and D. J. Kazmer , unpublished data ) . |
| 5 | of cars purchased these days run on diesel , and that there is widespread concern that the fuel used has a heavy sulphur content ? |
| 6 | The sounds produced have a fractal sound quality — they sound the same whether the sample generated by the program is delivered quickly or slowly . |
| 7 | The public were a ‘ voice offstage ’ to be used by each side in their threats , but only in the last resort was public debate considered to have a useful role in decision making . |
| 8 | Davie Jess , a well known wag , entertained his mates with a flood of stories , many of which , as he said later , John Robertson , a man known to have a fine voice was asked to sing a song ; the only songs of which he knew the words were all hymns and soon rescuers gathered in the control room on the surface heard a strong , clear rendering of The Old Rugged Cross coming to them over the internal telephone system , with more than 100 trapped miners joining in the chorus . |
| 9 | Placements are most successful when the policy-makers and professionals involved have a positive attitude to exploring integrated care and are willing to support the care-givers and the parents . |
| 10 | In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) . |
| 11 | The treatment prescribed has a familiar ring : rigorous financial analysis followed by cost-cutting , asset sales and then negotiations to convince creditors that rescheduling beats liquidation . |
| 12 | Antituberculous treatment has been tried in Crohn 's disease , although the drugs used have a low sensitivity to atypical mycobacteria including M paratuberculosis . |
| 13 | ( iv ) Any contract by an estate owner or by a person at the date of the contract entitled to have a legal estate conveyed to him or her , including a valid option of purchase , a right of pre-emption or any other like right ( an " estate contract " ) . |