Example sentences of "[noun] have [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fortunately continuing research by agrochemical manufacturers has to a large extent enabled the persistent organo-chlorides to be suspended . |
| 10 | Prick 'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Veterinary historians still differ sharply about the effect his long spell in charge of the College had on the emerging profession . |
| 13 | 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 ? ’ |
| 14 | In assessing that intention , the courts will take into account the connection that the contract and the parties have with a particular country . |
| 15 | This attractive hill village has in the past decade become favoured as a " dormitory suburb " for people employed in Thun . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Not honour 'd with a human shape . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , Soviet specialists accepted that in the past these zones had to a certain extent acted as a means of averting war . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | You may ( or may not ) be interested to see what fixtures the scum have over the festive season . |
| 23 | The Ugandan capital Kampala has seen the devastating effect that civil war has on a sophisticated engineering scheme . |
| 24 | Now , upmost in my mind is what John Durnin has as a pre-match meal . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Within this mass , the smaller workers have in a similar fashion created chambers in which the pupae hang . |
| 28 | Johnson may be a forlorn , pathetic creature who was never clever enough to emulate more sophisticated cheats who can mask the effects that steroids have on the human system . |
| 29 | However , governments have for a long time been divided over how large a merger must be before it passes out of national hands to Brussels . |
| 30 | Special education has for a long time been fertile ground for curricula based on linear models of learning , guided and assessed through hierarchies of objectives . |