Example sentences of "[noun] has a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | A mayor who cultivates his senator has a hot line to the ministry , and can always find his niece a job with a pension . |
| 32 | You have to have some enthusiasm to do such a person justice , whereas Jahn has an instinctive antipathy to him and listens with his ears half stopped up . |
| 33 | The dying planet has a metaphysical relationship to my own mortality and to that extent my inquiry into landscape is inherently ironic . |
| 34 | The T5-SB Custom has a similar specification to the four , again using an identical body shape with three-piece , neck-through-body maple construction . |
| 35 | In these ways this design process has a close resemblance to the traditional design activity . |
| 36 | Commodore 's initiative has a generic similarity to the Philips CD-I concept . |
| 37 | Each cell body has a rod-like extension to the surface of the membrane , terminating in a brush of hair-like structures which are super-sensitive . |
| 38 | And since the mandolin has a different tuning to the guitar , it gives you a different chord voicing to everybody else . |
| 39 | In Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 , Lord Atkinson said " … no person has an abstract right to be protected against competition per se in his trade or business " . |
| 40 | If the assumption is made on an anatomical basis , that blood flow through the splenic artery has a similar pattern to hepatic arterial flow , then the splenic TAC can be used as a model for hepatic arterial flow . |
| 41 | Art has a particular relationship to the hospital space . |
| 42 | ‘ Where the seller of goods has a voidable title to them , but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of the seller 's defect of title . ’ |
| 43 | One may agree that the expression which Firth dismisses as nonsense has a curious ring to it but this seems to be due to the choice of lexis which results in a particularly inconsequential proposition which it is hard to imagine ever figuring in actual use . |
| 44 | This revolution has a special relevance to the current British debate on the health of the nation . |
| 45 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 46 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 47 | In Italy the palazzo has a literary claim to fame because in one of the rooms overlooking Piazza San Fedele Virginia Marino , wife of the son of the first Spanish governor of Milan , gave birth to a daughter , Marianna , who became the ‘ Nun of Monza ’ celebrated in a well-known Italian novel . |
| 48 | For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe . |
| 49 | If such a three-pronged assault on the ailing Soviet economy has a familiar ring to it , that is hardly surprising . |
| 50 | ‘ I wished that for a long time , Lizzy , but your father has a different approach to life . ’ |
| 51 | The opposed parties in such disputes , evidently believing that causality has a chain-like character to it , have an impoverished notion of how things actually work . |
| 52 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 53 | This scale has an Eastern flavour to it caused by the fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth degrees . |
| 54 | It argues that Britain has a moral responsibility to its citizens in Hong Kong ; that Hong Kong people ‘ do not want to leave … they seek an insurance policy ’ ; that Britain is ‘ markedly ungenerous to its colonies ’ compared with other European countries ; and that ‘ insofar as any Hong Kong people were to move to Britain , they would be a valuable asset to the British economy ’ . |
| 55 | Dent 's comment at the time when that Act was still before Parliament as a bill has a curious irony to it , which will become all the more apparent from the discussion which ensues later : |
| 56 | Sally has a relaxed approach to decoration . |
| 57 | The concept of space has a different meaning to different cultures . |
| 58 | On paper the Spirit has a tiny advantage to 60mph — 6.8 versus 7.0secs — but the Vauxhall 's performance is more accessible . |
| 59 | Your firm has a potted guide to the rules about residence and domicile — pick up a copy as you leave . |
| 60 | She should understand that every country in the world has an incontrovertible right to a ‘ fortress mentality ’ and every country has been historically allowed the right to keep its borders intact and protect its people from invasion by hostile forces . |