Example sentences of "[noun] has [adv] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation . |
| 6 | The first-time fighter arriving on the competition scene has only a limited number of techniques . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tyneside has almost a unique congruence of a range of industrial traditions for men . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The USSR has only a small number of private cars , ’ says Bashmekov . |
| 12 | Each eye has only a narrow field of view , but it can be swivelled independently to scan over a hemisphere . |
| 13 | The scheme covers only some pollutants , and the AQMD has only a limited monitoring capacity . |
| 14 | In general , each neuron has only a single transmitter , such as acetylcholine , noradrenaline or dopamine . |
| 15 | Deletion of POU S has only a limited effect on binding to this motif . |
| 16 | The herring gull has only a small chance of grabbing a nestling in the face of such opposition , and no chance whatever of sneaking up on an unguarded chick unnoticed by adults . |
| 17 | Arthur has rather a light teaching load . |
| 18 | Often what happens in the context of a church service has only a limited effect as well . |
| 19 | If a statutory demand is served , the debtor has only a limited period within which to apply to set it aside . |
| 20 | Greenpeace and others also point out that the HMIP has only a small team of monitors and will not be able to perform the tasks of the NRA in this sphere . |
| 21 | This implies , of course , that each method has only a limited potentiality and , to this extent , particular methods can be used only for certain kinds of research objectives . |
| 22 | When each state has only a finite set of children , this wo n't happen . |
| 23 | A bees ' nest has only a single entrance , so air can not be made to flow through it as it does through a prairie dog 's tunnel . |
| 24 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 25 | Although there are three sources of input to the logogen system , there is only one set of logogens , and any word has only a single logogen . |
| 26 | For any given latitude the Pole star has effectively a constant altitude and the other stars Appear to revolve around it owing to the Earth 's diurnal rotation . |
| 27 | It is necessary to rely on the accounts published since the embargo on absolute secrecy was lifted in 1977 , and there seems little advantage in repeating here what has been told so well already ; and , after all , this book has quite a different purpose . |
| 28 | The corollary is that some catalogue information has only a limited life , since it may in its turn be overtaken by new research . |
| 29 | A neurotransmitter has only a brief stay at its receptor site . |
| 30 | That Superbrain with a quarter megabyte of memory has only a finite life and then any records and software dedicated to its operating system is material for the e-paleographers . |