Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] have the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My constituency has the highest level in England , Scotland and Wales with an average of 30 per cent . |
| 2 | My predecessor had the back door and one side door permanently barred . |
| 3 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 4 | No doubt members would calculate whether it was to their advantage to have the waiting period reduced to 12 months . |
| 5 | Miss Lavant 's scarlet coat was of fine tweed , her skin had the poreless look of porcelain . |
| 6 | As he had suspected , her skin had the unmistakable radiance of youth . |
| 7 | The emergence of these rules out of a common law which denies their existence has the added consequence , attractive to those who make them , that they are not subject to parliamentary or to adequate judicial control . |
| 8 | Nothing about " what it is like " to see blue or red tells us which light has the longer wavelength . |
| 9 | Most people who take photographs of their lovemaking have the good sense to review such wanton moments in private . |
| 10 | By the fifth week , La Croix was linking names of bishops with the general gist of what they had said in the debates : its editor had the good fortune himself to be a peritus . |
| 11 | Which mammal has the shortest life-span in the wild ? |
| 12 | JAPAN 'S economic miracle has contributed to its population having the longest life expectancy in the world and Britain 's social and health policy makers could learn from it , two researchers claimed yesterday . |
| 13 | The question " which month has the least sunshine " has a unique answer and higher success rates were recorded : 77 per cent in the bottom , 80 per cent in the middle and 94 per cent in the top bands respectively . |
| 14 | It was commonly held that the first lord to whom he had sworn fealty had the first call on his service ; but in some cases it was held that the richest fief gave the vassal his strongest obligation ; or again , that it depended on the circumstances , on which lord had the greatest need — a lord must be helped if he was fighting in self-defence , but his claim was less if he was fighting in someone else 's defence ; or the vassal might be expected to fight on both sides , that is to say , to provide troops for both armies . |
| 15 | Indeed , in a recent independent survey by a leading German University , the Esslingen Technical College , of over 20 selected brands of tennis rackets , in which the aim was to establish which racket had the best vibration dampening properties , the Protagon TM 500 came out top . |
| 16 | The PLP could conduct a poll of its members to test which man had the greater support . |
| 17 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 18 | In this respect , their rhetoric had the principal aim of facilitating the reader 's response to these otherwise ‘ incomprehensible ’ texts whose erosion of conventional contours impeded the reader 's access . |
| 19 | One minute they were having a philosophical discussion , and the next a very physical encounter , in which Shelley felt that her companion had the greater advantage . |
| 20 | Her voice had the pubescent innocence of a junior high school majorette . |
| 21 | Their poison has the same origin as that of the snakes — modified saliva — but the animals are much more primitive in their wounding mechanism . |
| 22 | This allows us to do more than simply check back on the forecasters ' performance on individual countries ; it enables us to assess which forecaster has the best record across all the big economies . |
| 23 | It had not crossed Flora 's mind that St Saviour 's might need payment for teaching her , only that her place there depended upon her ability to have the right uniform , all the uniform , down to the last sock garter and science overall . |
| 24 | Which country has the largest number of people employed in manufacturing ? |
| 25 | But her mother had the same sort of chin . |
| 26 | Me husband had the same trouble with other doctors and he went to two . |
| 27 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |
| 28 | At any rate , the night 's most repeatable joke concerned the three bairns talking in the playground about whose dad had the fastest job . |
| 29 | In Smiles the Fair One view 'd the rising Sun , |
| 30 | His skin had the golden sheen of an eagle 's plumage … skin but not quite skin — oh yes ! thought Grainne , drowning in delight now . |