Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 2 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 3 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 4 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 9 | But the political significance of this culture is that where opinion counts and where the catholic — nationalist remnant actually experiences the coercive power of protestant loyalists and the British army in the Northern statelet , there violence has all the more support . |
| 10 | Lombard North Central plc is one of the country 's largest finance houses and its legal department has about a dozen lawyers , both solicitors and barristers . |
| 11 | The JD 's neck has exactly the same depth , but it 's been dressed away a touch more in the shoulders to give a more sharply peaked V , especially down near the nut . |
| 12 | The neck has just the right amount of forward relief , and needs no adjustment to the truss rod . |
| 13 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 14 | Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation . |
| 15 | At this stage , when the marram dies and the dune has only an incomplete cover of vegetation , there is a great danger of a blow out . |
| 16 | Today the United States has about a million injecting drug users . |
| 17 | Words having exactly the same sound , but different spellings and meanings : To be completely accurate , these are homophones : but homonym is the term in more general use . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Against Protestant tendencies to emphasize the priesthood of all believers , Catholic scholars would reaffirm , as Bellarmine did , that many believers had neither the spiritual capacity nor the mental endowment to protect themselves from literature that might be damaging to faith and prospects for eternity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But Kylie had just the right look and style and character . |
| 22 | Edenderry had also a fine choir ‘ pervaded by a spirit of friendship . ’ |
| 23 | These words are of significance as they tie in with the title ‘ Futility ’ because all three words have basically the same meaning and their use enhances this feeling of futility throughout the poem for the reader . |
| 24 | A Commission survey has shown that walkers have only a one-in-3 chance of being able to complete any 2 mile walk . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 … ’ |
| 27 | Good monoskis have quite a different sidecut to normal skis — the narrowest point is the very back , and not the waist . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Unfortunately it may not be this World Cup , for the Scots have just a minuscule chance of qualifying . |
| 30 | as well if you want The Express and The Mail have much the same pictures Got a football magazine and a Woman you can have a football , I ca n't u look |