Example sentences of "[art] [adj] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This dependency of the weak on the strong has a moral component .
2 The purpose of some of the objects crafted is difficult to understand because many of the finest had a religious significance .
3 The '79 has a delightful flavour reminiscent of almonds .
4 The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies .
5 And Mr Ataie 's thesis that the British have a deep-seated reverence for war is too easily symbolised by having Penny make Remembrance Day poppies or court Sya in front of a military monument .
6 The French have a barbaric strain , ’ said Memet .
7 She countered , smilingly behind the menu : ‘ The French have a different attitude to rape : resistance is the salt on the dish , you know . ’
8 The French have a heavy hand .
9 And if he feels that the French have an unfair advantage in that to them the words " whisky " and " scotch " are good selling points whereas to us they are just rather blunt or evocative in the wrong way then he can invent some totally new name .
10 This is an important reason why the old have a high propensity to be poor .
11 In Czechoslovakia works of importance are graded as national treasures , and while the Japanese have a similar system , they also rank places .
12 It was no defence that the accused had a good motive , namely to stop the car obstructing him .
13 ‘ the function of the judge at a criminal trial as respects the admission of evidence is to ensure that the accused has a fair trial according to law .
14 The second had a double bed but was at the back of the cottage and overlooked an overgrown vegetable patch .
15 A common factor in the two studies concerning assessment by non-medically qualified staff is that the social workers in the first study and the nurses in the second had a special interest in dealing with attempted suicide patients .
16 Two teams of computer specialists are now at work , one to try and make sure the department 's existing system can cope , the second to have a new computer system at work from 1 January next year .
17 If the winding has an effective inductance L and resistance R , then at turn-on the phase current is : Transistor T2 must remain switched on until the phase current reaches its rated value ( VL/R ) at time t1 : The ratio D = VH/VL is known as the " overdrive " available in the circuit and Eqn .
18 Incidentally , the Maltese have a delightful habit of carrying their political leaders by hand over the heads of the crowd .
19 Each of the three has a different character , and each is scored for a different combination of instruments .
20 The larger has an outer band of acanthus scroll , then a band of three geometric borders .
21 Leicester in the 1760s had a daily crossing of coaches on runs from Manchester or Leeds to London ; by 1815 more than thirty left the town each day for London and other major population centres in the Midlands and north .
22 The increase in the extent of the behaviour during the 1970s had a considerable effect on medical teams , psychiatrists , social workers , and general practitioners .
23 Thus , to return to the arguments mobilized against the CLRC 's proposal : the chief difference in protection of the vulnerable between the present system and the CLRC 's is that the latter had a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment , whereas life imprisonment is available where a defence of diminished responsibility succeeds ; and the fundamental ethical problems are now swept under the carpet by a combination of a stretched diagnosis of ‘ abnormality of mind ’ and the ample judicial sentencing discretion , whereas the CLRC 's proposal attempted to make the issues justiciable .
24 In ‘ Goodnight Irene ’ , the latter had an outstanding hit , a key point in the development from traditional folk to modern in 1950 .
25 The latter have a free code of practice on this area .
26 The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland .
27 The former has the softness of line and speckled coloration of a genuine clamp-fired brick ; whilst the latter has a traditional appearance of a warm red , multicoloured , Wealden stock .
28 Furthermore , monetary policy is not as crucial as fiscal policy because the latter has a direct impact on economic activity via government expenditure and taxation , whereas monetary policy only affects economic activity indirectly via the tenuous link between interest rates and investment .
29 At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high .
30 The latter has an upper gallery which goes round the whole court , providing impressive vistas through the traceried openings .
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