Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun pl] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For bishops , then for presbyters , finally for deacons , Western churches came to expect and ultimately to require celibacy ( though the canonical compulsion was not seriously enforced until medieval times and even thereafter in parts of Europe , like Southern Germany or Wales , it was common for village priests to have a consort and a family , with the support of their flock and the connivance of their bishop who derived income from the annual fee or tax to allow the arrangement ) . |
| 2 | 1.2 SCOTVEC , as custodian of the National Certificate Catalogue of module descriptors has a responsibility for maintaining an up-to-date provision . |
| 3 | CIBD 's team of Relationship Managers had a chance to hear for themselves how their role fits in with the future for the Royal Bank when they were addressed by Chief Executive George Mathewson in February . |
| 4 | Behind it crawled a hoverbus of MivvyCorp employees having a party . |
| 5 | First and most fundamentally , are the members of the Trade sufficiently aware of coming new generations of information products to have a view on whether they should be selling them ? |
| 6 | ‘ Fascism ’ , he said , ‘ is not a creed for the smug mice who choose to emerge from under Bloomsbury tea-cosies to have a nibble at it . ’ |
| 7 | All machines with colour monitors have a video card and should have at least 512Kb of on-board RAM . |
| 8 | Discounting Bills ( or Deferred Payments ) drawn under Documentary Credits has a number of important advantages for the exporter . |
| 9 | The cars in Underground trains have a door at each end as well as the double-and single-leaf doors for passenger use . |
| 10 | The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ . |
| 11 | In Holland , he reported that ‘ there are so many rooms , that each prisoner is kept separate ’ ; in Switzerland felons had a room to themselves ‘ that they might not tutor one another ’ . |
| 12 | Thus quantified , the environmental cost of oil comes to 5.56p per kilowatt-hour ( kWh ) , with corrosion and damage to buildings accounting for more than half the total and damage to crops from pollution for just under a fifth ; " old " coal burned in conventional power stations without emission controls has a cost of 5.00p/kWh ; " new " coal 1.18p/kWh ; combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations 0.45p/kWh ; nuclear pressurized-water reactors ( PWR ) between 0.32p and 0.37p/kWh ( not including effects on plants and animals ) ; and solar , wind and hydroelectric power between 0.04 and 0.07p/kWh ( not including visual impact or disruption caused by construction of dams , etc ) . |
| 13 | Our integrated health programme has provided a catalyst for slum families to have a hand in controlling their environment and working together to benefit each other . |
| 14 | Instead , under an amiable leader , Michael Foot , who was savagely pilloried by a largely right-wing press , it was compelled by constituency pressures to have a far-left programme hostile to NATO , to membership of the Common Market , and to a system of national nuclear defence ; it would also be committed to mass nationalization , reinforcing further the power of the unions , and a variety of other proposals unlikely to have much popular appeal . |