Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 2 | The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen . |
| 3 | ‘ Your skin has n't a single blemish , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Should the discussion stray just once from generic to specific advice , however casually ( ‘ the Borsetshire Union has quite a good deal on offer at the moment ’ ) , investment business has been carried out . |
| 5 | Howe still needs a goalkeeper on loan because David Seaman has only a slender chance of returning on Saturday and his two deputies are injured . |
| 6 | Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation . |
| 7 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |
| 8 | The Pahls in their study had quite a high rate of non-co-operation : twenty of the group of 113 managers whom they wanted to study did not complete the questionnaire ( although the response rate was higher from the wives ' postal questionnaire ) ; of the twenty-nine couples who were asked to give home interviews , six refused and six did not answer the letter . |
| 9 | Edenderry had also a fine choir ‘ pervaded by a spirit of friendship . ’ |
| 10 | But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid she has a most irreverent attitude — and some of our gentlemen have quite a wide circle of acquaintances , so of course we must be able to offer complete discretion … ’ |
| 12 | Good monoskis have quite a different sidecut to normal skis — the narrowest point is the very back , and not the waist . |
| 13 | Real travellers will have discovered that most taxi drivers have only a cursory grasp of English so it may come as a surprise to learn that foreign cabbies ‘ drive at breakneck speed ’ while talking eloquently of ‘ local proverbs and giving handy hints about what to buy in the local market . ’ |
| 14 | Unfortunately it may not be this World Cup , for the Scots have just a minuscule chance of qualifying . |
| 15 | The first-time fighter arriving on the competition scene has only a limited number of techniques . |
| 16 | ‘ Anker stout has only a small percentage of the market so though bar owners will agree to stock it they will usually insist on selling Guinness as well , ’ explains . |
| 17 | The argument from error has here a plausible consistency , while the point which Nozick takes to be his strength begins to look like a weakness . |
| 18 | Tyneside has almost a unique congruence of a range of industrial traditions for men . |
| 19 | Their strategy is based upon the idea that the boss has only a limited amount of sympathy and benefits to go round , and that their herd 's problems should have priority . |
| 20 | Currency movements had only a limited impact on the results for the half year . |
| 21 | Currency movements had only a limited impact on the results . |
| 22 | Currency movements had only a limited impact on the results . |
| 23 | Currency movements had only a marginal impact on the results . |
| 24 | Currency movements had only a marginal impact on the results . |
| 25 | ‘ The USSR has only a small number of private cars , ’ says Bashmekov . |
| 26 | Each eye has only a narrow field of view , but it can be swivelled independently to scan over a hemisphere . |
| 27 | The scheme covers only some pollutants , and the AQMD has only a limited monitoring capacity . |
| 28 | In general , each neuron has only a single transmitter , such as acetylcholine , noradrenaline or dopamine . |
| 29 | The USA held to its position of open airways , with an international body having only a consultative role ; but it withheld the right for airlines to operate from any American point . |
| 30 | Such distinctions mattered more in Russia or the Dual Monarchy , where the capitalist and professional classes had still a long way to go before winning social acceptance by the old nobility . |