Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you remember I used the example of agriculture , right , where it is generally observed that agricultural products have a price inelastic demand , okay . |
| 2 | One of the corporate myths is that top managers have a monopoly on stress — the incidence of stress is actually highest at the bottom of the hierarchy among process , clerical and service personnel . |
| 3 | This maintenance of a working class Tory vote sufficient to return the party to office can be thought of as having two components : first the reproduction of relatively stable social collectivities having a principle of identification outside the conception of ‘ class ’ which prompted most ‘ working class ’ people to vote Labour , and second a more conjunctural conversion of voters . |
| 4 | It is extraordinary how few professional organisations have a code of ethics like social works : ‘ Basic to the profession of social work is the recognition of the value and dignity of every human being irrespective of origin , race , status , sex , sexual orientation , age , belief or contribution to society . |
| 5 | He gives an enrapturing spot of rock ‘ n ’ roll , be-bop and soft shoe shuffle in the second act after the cast had larked on with the audience at interval-time and some brave hearts had a bit of a rave-up on stage . |
| 6 | The lead times for the many publications on your media list can vary tremendously , some monthly magazines having a lead time of six months or more . |
| 7 | These invaluable low-growing pink plants have a reputation for being tender , but as these are doing so well here in this cold part of the country , they must be among the hardier varieties . |
| 8 | The former 11th tee box , on what is now the 10th fairway , was sufficiently far back from the road for the majority of golfers to carry the road with their second ( or third ! ) shots , although some doughty souls had a go for the green from the tee using the existing oak tree as being to the left of the ideal line ; ( 3 ) reconstructing the 13th afresh and ( 4 ) taking back the 14th tee box considerably as now . |
| 9 | At the time of the survey 7 out of the 12 local authorities had a health education policy which they were prepared to share with us . |
| 10 | Such professional groupings have a number of implications for organisations . |
| 11 | Which three of the following prime ministers had a moustache when in office ? |
| 12 | By the inter-war years such Sikh artisans had a number of Kenyan assistants adopting their skills ; by the 1950s the Sikhs were moving on to the role of investor and entrepreneur in both construction and industry , leaving the way clear for their former assistants to take on the role of artisan . |
| 13 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 14 | Even the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches had a reprieve . |
| 15 | But now anyone wanting to smoke must go to one of three designated rooms to have a cigarette break . |
| 16 | But how was it possible for two different people who clearly knew some basic mechanical principles to have a go and produce answers that were nonsense ? |
| 17 | The crunch came when it was realised that these competent women had a propensity to marry ( Martindale , 1939 ) . |
| 18 | Many of these insect-feeding birds have a line of bristles around their beaks which at one time were thought to channel weakly-flying insects into the open beak but now it seems more likely that they do no more than protect the birds ' eyes as they deliberately plunge through clouds of insects . |
| 19 | These various approaches have a number of problems . |
| 20 | These various approaches have a number of problems , and it was established that contextual information is necessary in addition to a pattern recogniser . |
| 21 | At one place there were about a dozen young women having a lunch together . |
| 22 | I do remember saying that these Asian women had a lot to teach us about family life . |
| 23 | It is to say , rather , that mental events have a kind of dependent existence . |
| 24 | Effectively all MAS professionals have a duty to build up a good working knowledge of corporate finance theory and practice ( particularly M&A and valuations ) and maintain this knowledge through regular but selective reading . |
| 25 | Some years ago an argument raged in one of the horse magazines , when some Expert declared that many Arabian horses had a parrot mouth ( a congenital deformity where the upper front teeth extend beyond the lower ) . |
| 26 | Almost all democratic states have a legislature composed of two Houses . |
| 27 | Many male transvestites have a history of being dressed when toddlers by their doting mothers in pretty dresses . |
| 28 | Many little girls have a period of ‘ pony mania ’ and this cake should definitely appeal . |
| 29 | Wordsworth , like Dickens fifty years later , considered that all human beings had a claim upon each other , even though political economists thought that war and poverty were ‘ natural checks upon the species ’ and ‘ kept down the surplus population ’ . |
| 30 | Every city and many large towns have a management company which can open doors and who are in regular contact with A&R staff , anxious for news about outside London . |