Example sentences of "[conj] have a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hostility — accusation that anyone mentioning alcoholism or drug addiction or having a different understanding of addictive disease from his or her own has a " bee in the bonnet " . |
| 2 | Tonal series are designed to contain note-groups of a triadic nature , or to have a whole group of notes in the same key . |
| 3 | Any piece of computer equipment which has to be fitted to some other equipment , such as a replacement " card " ( printed circuit board containing integrated circuits ) which has to be a certain shape , or have a certain type of connector , in order to fit into a computer will also fall into the first part of the exception . |
| 4 | But , most importantly , before a proposition can be submitted to the traditional source of lending it has to be accepted in traditional terms , or have a proven track-record of success . |
| 5 | You know , you may , you may be the best , and therefore think , think you have a , or have a high opinion of yourself , and therefore try your luck , you know , if somebody must be getting those jobs it could be me . |
| 6 | And then he has a study that has a similar wall of reference set of shelves and then I guess that maybe his bedroom has of this , but it 's erm and such a nice guy , a pleasant kind of man . |
| 7 | Rank Organisation ( owner of 49% of Rank Xerox and a variety of leisure activities ) has issued an 8.25p convertible preference that has a present price of 94p , giving a gross yield of 11.7% . |
| 8 | If you compare a striped object with one that has a different kind of black and white pattern , they do not appear to be the same size even if , in reality , they are identical . |
| 9 | A country that has a large supply of easily-developed resources ( land , water and minerals ) will find growth easier than one that has fewer and less accessible resources . |
| 10 | How far will a plane go in four hours that has a constant speed of five hundred miles per hour ? |
| 11 | It 's a larger-than-life , non-stop , 24 hour-a-day resort that has a brash sort of charm and enough action for even the most demanding of socialites . |
| 12 | Do you prefer exercise that has a high level of excitement attached to it ? |
| 13 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 14 | Certainly , although having a resident population of just over a thousand , it can claim to be the capital of a very extensive area of the north , there being no larger town within forty miles . |
| 15 | However , one need not be overly cynical to realise that having a good idea of what masses of people are likely to do in response to certain policies gives a competitive advantage to politicians and businessmen alike . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course we are trying to recruit new people to Flockplan , but we are doing so in the knowledge that having a detailed analysis of flock performance and an independent adviser standing at his shoulder , can help a sheep producer improve efficiency and profit enough to recoup the cost many times over . ’ |
| 17 | And then she glanced out of the main kitchen window , the one that had a partial view of the terrace ; Angelica looked as well , and saw that they had a few customers arriving and looking around uncertainly at the unstaffed deck . |
| 18 | Louis 's age — he was sixty in 838 — made it urgent to find a succession-settlement that had a good chance of sticking . |
| 19 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 20 | I think coming from my working-class background , I was frightened of everything that had a vague look of an institution about it . |
| 21 | These authors argue that in the ‘ brideservice societies ’ , a category encompassing the relatively egalitarian hunting and gathering peoples and those that have a mixed economy of hunting , gathering , small-scale horticulture , the association of sexuality and violence , which is but a particular type of sexual oppression , plays a central role in all political and much social action . |
| 22 | Audiences become attached to soaps that have a strong sense of social realism . |
| 23 | There is virtually no evidence to associate UFOs ( whatever they are ) with leys , though there is now a basis of evidence to suggest that stone circles at least , may be associated with geological locations that have a high incidence of geophysically-produced luminous atmospheric phenomena . |
| 24 | Bryozoans found as fossils have calcium carbonate ( calcite ) skeletons that have a high chance of being preserved , and the fossil forms seem to have been exclusively marine ( some living bryozoans live in fresh water ) . |
| 25 | Look for programmes that have a high proportion of such visual support . |
| 26 | Sema Group Plc has reported its best year-end figures since the merger between CAP Group Plc and Sema Metra SA in 1988 ( CI No 942 ) because , it claims , unlike its competitors , it focusses its systems integration skills on contracts that have a high level of technical content . |
| 27 | Part location is improved as the spatial data recorded in HERMS can be used to find parts by : I ) specifying a position in an assembly and an enclosing search field , 2 ) specifying the maximum volume of the part expressed in extents values ( XYZ ) , 3 ) similar to 2 but by delivering a ratio between two orthogonal extents values , ie slenderness ratio , 4 ) by choosing a known part and then checking for all parts that have a specified class of interference ( or separation ) with the named part , and 5 ) combinations of I — 4 . |
| 28 | Harmony is dependent on the species being considered , but with fish that have a potential size of 12″ these stocking levels could be thought of as being rather high . |
| 29 | Ponds that have a large population of green plants ( and this includes ‘ Pea-soup ’ algae ) can become totally depleted of oxygen at night , especially during hot , humid weather where the oxygen carrying capacity of water is low . |
| 30 | So what you need to do is rather than have a big block of writing okay which is going to look not really in the format of this kind of newspaper is it ? what you tend to get in the tabloids is loads of these little ones . |