Example sentences of "[noun] have [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Samson Agonistes exemplifies a problem which has stood at the centre of current inquiry into the negotiations a text has with an historical context .
2 But the book does explore the emotional effect that this major change has on a small boy 's life in a clever and very unusual way .
3 The University has as a major objective for the future the acquisition of the whole of the Radcliffe Infirmary site , if the Headington Strategy goes ahead , for use for university purposes .
4 The only thing Stewart has in a nice hair-style … so nice he wo n't head the ball .
5 For those who wish to weaken the hold that transmission teaching has within the educational system , this more sociological approach to understanding the conditions of teaching quality suggests not a tightening-up of selection procedures , an improvement of training , and an emphasis in training and staff deployment on the strengthening of subject expertise , but policies such as the following :
6 Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia .
7 In contrast , improvement of gastrointestinal symptoms after specific treatment with ganciclovir is well documented in cytomegalovirus infection which is in accordance with the significant association this agent has with the gastrointestinal symptoms reported here .
8 We shall consider in a moment the grip this kind of thinking has on the conservative mind , not merely the politically Conservative , but traditionalists of all kinds .
9 Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections .
10 Fortunately continuing research by agrochemical manufacturers has to a large extent enabled the persistent organo-chlorides to be suspended .
11 The notion that Freud has of the sexual instincts is not primarily about reproduction , however , but the generalized capacity of the human organism to find erotic satisfaction from any part of the body being caressed or stimulated , quite apart from the act of reproduction .
12 Prick 'd from the lazy finger of a maid ;
13 ‘ The expression ‘ mercantile agent ’ shall mean a mercantile agent having in the customary course of his business as such agent authority either to sell goods or to consign goods for the purpose of sale , or to buy goods , or to raise money on the security of goods . ’
14 Veterinary historians still differ sharply about the effect his long spell in charge of the College had on the emerging profession .
15 Scotch if you 've got it — or are you waving the emerald flag for the benefit of certain up-and:coming Irish politicians of the lineage of the closest thing we in the States have to a royal family ? ’
16 In assessing that intention , the courts will take into account the connection that the contract and the parties have with a particular country .
17 This attractive hill village has in the past decade become favoured as a " dormitory suburb " for people employed in Thun .
18 We shall see later that the power of the occupiers to exclude or restrict their liability towards visitors has to a considerable extent been eroded by s. 2 Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 .
19 A friend of the late Giovanni Falcone , one of Italy 's martyrs in its fight against the Mafia , Baltasar ‘ Superjudge ’ Garzon is the closest Spain has to an anti-Mafia crusader .
20 ‘ Not honour 'd with a human shape . ’
21 Doubt was cast on Cameron 's results partly by the lack of control data he offered , and , later , after his death , his reputation for scientific integrity was irretrievably damaged by the revelation that much of his experimental work had for a long time been secretly supported by the CIA , including some rather insidious studies of the effects of covertly administered LSD on the behaviour of unsuspecting people .
22 Nevertheless , Soviet specialists accepted that in the past these zones had to a certain extent acted as a means of averting war .
23 The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) .
24 You may ( or may not ) be interested to see what fixtures the scum have over the festive season .
25 My information , until corrected , is that he is the vice president of the European Peoples Party and it 's a rather ambivalent relationship the er Conservatives have with the European peoples party .
26 The Ugandan capital Kampala has seen the devastating effect that civil war has on a sophisticated engineering scheme .
27 Now , upmost in my mind is what John Durnin has as a pre-match meal .
28 The overall response of the British state to this twofold crisis has to a large extent been characterized by penological pragmatism : responding to developments and attempting to manage the resources crisis ‘ with no clear or coherent philosophical or other theoretical basis ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 4 ) .
29 High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals .
30 Within this mass , the smaller workers have in a similar fashion created chambers in which the pupae hang .
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