Example sentences of "[noun] has a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two organisations have now managed to set up clearing facilities enabling them to dispense hard currency in Moscow : Credobank , a Moscow-based commercial bank , began offering cash advances to Visa card holders from early March and American Express has been offering a limited service to its card holders from its Moscow representative office ; Credobank has an on-line connection to a London clearing centre to check all cards — the connection was organised by Sprint Networks ; the bank also plans to offer cash service in some Moscow hotels . |
| 2 | The story has a familiar ring to it in the sense that women are seldom encouraged to be in top positions at work the world over . |
| 3 | Louis Armstrong has a good claim to being the most influential popular singer of the century . |
| 4 | The course has a similar structure to the HND Design ( Communication ) , but there is a choice of emphasis between Graphics and Product Design . |
| 5 | ‘ The board has a contemporary attitude to graphics , people who 'll come up with ideas in the future . |
| 6 | Celeriac : this knobbly root vegetable has a similar flavour to celery . |
| 7 | One side has a similar effect to deep black crushed velvet but with a slight sheen , the reverse has a rough pile effect painted in a choice of brown , blue or grey . |
| 8 | Each SBus card has a full claim to the 32MB address space available . |
| 9 | Each SBus card has a full claim to the 32Mb address space available . |
| 10 | ‘ Any defendant has a fundamental right to a fair trial . |
| 11 | Andy has a large input to the design side , having the enjoyment of being able to turn ideas in to reality and then use them to give a financial return . |
| 12 | I have fitted a complete set of new springs with Monroe GaD Magnum 4 x 4 shock absorbers , but when viewed from the rear , the vehicle has a definite lean to the left . |
| 13 | If so , Scotland has a different approach to such matters from that of the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | The latest issue has a free guidebook to Moscow ( noted wildlife habitat ) on the cover . |
| 15 | The Faculty of Business and Management has a strong commitment to economic regeneration and an established track record in contributing to the revival of the economic life of the province . |
| 16 | Firstly , although every Australian has an equal right to be treated in a public hospital , the income that can be derived from treating a privately insured patient is greater than that for treating a public patient in the same facilities . |
| 17 | ‘ York Castle Museum has a great appeal to visitors from both sides of the Atlantic , ’ said Dr Andy Hodges , director of the York Castle Museum . |
| 18 | Edinburgh District Council has a strong commitment to equal opportunities and I am only too happy to support an event at which the many different cultures , religions and experiences of women in Edinburgh today were represented . |
| 19 | The Council has an aggressive approach to the promotion of pedestrian safety through many of its works programmes particularly in the areas of Pelican Crossing , refuse island and dropped kerb provision . |
| 20 | saying to you that the that you should ei that that the A sixty four corridor has a close relationship to the existing employment areas |
| 21 | John Sewell has a unique claim to a place in any gallery of Palace heroes , because he was the popular and talented skipper of the team which took our club into the 1st Division for the first time in its history , back in 1969 . |
| 22 | This remark has an enticing obscurity to it , a flavour of ‘ Confucius , he says … ’ ; actually , as with many Chinese proverbs , the point Tarrow is making is a straightforward and simple one , that regionalism as policy resists categorisation and control within a particular administrative subject-area and has tended to develop branch-lines covering a wide range of policy intervention . |
| 23 | Ethology 's assertion that male aggression has an instinctive basis to it has a close parallel with those radical feminists such as Dworkin who argue that males are inherently and innately violent . |
| 24 | The majority team has an automatic resistance to being displaced , simply by virtue of being in the majority . |
| 25 | This issue of sexism has a direct relevance to the main topic of this book : a survey of housewives and their attitudes to housework which I carried out in London in 1971 . |
| 26 | This punishment has an obvious appropriateness to the crime , because Plato in the Laws ( 871a ) recommends that murderers , another category of ‘ polluted ’ offender , be excluded from the ‘ harbour and the agora ’ . |
| 27 | Language is not an iconic sign system , in which the signifier has a visual resemblance to the signified ( as in the traffic signs for ‘ falling rocks ’ or ‘ humped-backed bridge ’ ) , but a symbolic one in which the connection between signified and signifier is arbitrary . |
| 28 | Much of this insight has a valuable application to the communicating of the gospel . |
| 29 | The point has a particular relevance to the work of those who believe , like Foucault , following Nietzsche , that truth is a mere rhetorical device , employed in the interests of oppression , and say so at length . |
| 30 | Now the town has a permanent shrine to the Norseman , in the shape of CF–DRD , which served the community faithfully for 20 years before being mothballed in 1984 . |