Example sentences of "[noun] has an [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The majority team has an automatic resistance to being displaced , simply by virtue of being in the majority . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe . |
| 11 | This scale has an Eastern flavour to it caused by the fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth degrees . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It becomes very hard to see how the ‘ revolutionary moment ’ will ever arise in the absence of struggles to construct alternative forms of social organisation of production which might ‘ prefigure ’ and win support for socialist objectives unless , in a surely discredited formula , oppositional industrial militancy has an intrinsic tendency to revolutionary socialism . |
| 14 | The best known is the ‘ plain ’ blue variety ; over the past few years the new ‘ red ’ form has become very popular with Apistogramma enthusiast — this form has an orange-red centre to the caudal fin and a lot of orange-red in the dorsal , and is the type I am currently keeping and breeding . |
| 15 | Richard explained that everyone on the E-mail network has an electronic mailbox to which letters can be ‘ posted ’ . |
| 16 | THE early morning jingle has an exciting sound to it . |