Example sentences of "[pron] has a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But singers with this ability ( and who also have absolute pitch ) are not very common , and if we want to have our music sung by the majority of singers , it is best to write within the normal limits : Many singers can exceed these limits , but we must remember that , apart from the fact that most people these days have middle-range voices , everyone has a limited zone in which the voice is at its best . |
2 | The system was carefully designed for confidentiality , and everyone has a separate ID for the survey . |
3 | The purpose of this chapter , however , is not to suggest clever ways of reducing your liability — although in fact almost everyone has a certain amount of scope to do so without in any way cheating on the system . |
4 | Everyone has a different experience of pregnancy , and some are troubled by less pleasurable effects like backache , morning sickness , fainting , and high blood pressure , as well as other physical or emotional changes : |
5 | Everyone has a different view of friendship and what it means to them . |
6 | Not everyone has a natural knack for choosing colours and patterns . |
7 | Everyone has an implicit knowledge of the grammar of his or her native language(s) . |
8 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
9 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
10 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
11 | The first point to note is that no-one has a convincing explanation for the existence of W-cells . |
12 | By having such behavioural criteria for the truth of a third-person statement , such as ‘ He dislikes So-and-so , ’ we are able to determine whether someone has a correct understanding of the term in question . |
13 | If we feel that someone has a high opinion of us we tend to want to live up to it , but few of us bother to make much effort with anyone we know who gives us a low rating , and this is very much the case between mothers-in-law and sons-in-law . |
14 | ‘ We have strength in depth and nobody has a God-given right to any position . ’ |
15 | To give an idea of the desolation of some of the villages ( in the Saratov area ) ( may mention that the village of Kano , in the Markstadt district , which has a normal population of over 3,000 , has now only 1,100 inhabitants left , and remember the winter is only just beginning . |
16 | ( iii ) So far as article 5(1) itself is concerned , he submitted that it is clearly established by Court of Justice decisions that it reflects the close links created by the contract between the parties thereto , and the need to resolve all difficulties which may arise in connection with the contract in the same court in a country which has a close connection with the case , i.e. the court in the country where the obligation in question has to be performed . |
17 | Spinnaker ripstop must not be confused with its near relative , Balloon ripstop which has a stretchy feeling to its touch , comes on 137cm ( 54in ) rolls and does not crease . |
18 | A new form of treatment , or a new and more enthusiastic doctor , may act as a morale-booster which has a beneficial effect on the immune system — the sort of effect that the psychoneuroimmunologists are currently studying . |
19 | This charming old Scottish house is occupied by the Scottish Craft Centre which has a fascinating range of pottery , jewellery and textiles for sale . |
20 | Pearson , which has a major stake in BSkyB , gained 4p to 451p while Granada , another substantial investor , put on a penny to 408p . |
21 | Security from the membership of a large group which has a major commitment to the growth of Name ; |
22 | French company Forestière Nord Congo , for example , which has a 10-year concession on 187,000 hectares , secured reduced import duties and a five-year tax holiday in exchange for agreeing to process 60 per cent of logs on site and establish a new sawmill . |
23 | Homes that make visitors welcome will have a lively atmosphere which has a knock-on effect on residents . |
24 | The finest of the cathedrals is that at Basle , which has a picturesque situation on the Rhine . |
25 | This specimen also resembles O. gracilis Belyaev & Litvinova , 1976 which has a similar range of enlarged granules around the periphery of the disk and arrangement of oral papillae . |
26 | This means that it is wholly braided as distinct from the type which has a central core of twist . |
27 | But although the attitudinist agrees with the intuitionist that the meaning of ethical words can not be exhaustively analysed in naturalistic or metaphysical terms he takes a more positive view of the kinds of definition which Moore was so concerned to refute , for he sees them as examples of a particular type of definition , which has a legitimate place in discourse . |
28 | He appointed Mr Jones because the opposition , which has a three-seat majority in the 15-member parliament , is divided . |
29 | The North American Cordillera , which has a tectonic history of bewildering complexity , has not been examined in detail in this chapter but various aspects of its evolution are considered by Dickinson ( 1976 ) , Eaton ( 1987 ) and Smith and Eaton ( 1978 ) . |
30 | ( en ii ) the possibility of removing the 16+ as a series of examinations to be taken after a one/two year course for 14–16 year olds at the age of sixteen would remove a constraint which has a distorting effect on the pattern of the curriculum of schools . |