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

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1 She rubbed her arm , where she had a large bruise above the elbow .
2 Before the provision contained in rule 3(7) was enacted , the law governing standing to apply for prerogative orders was , in simplified terms , as follows : a person could apply for certiorari or prohibition provided he or she had a genuine grievance or , in other words , provided the applicant was a person aggrieved by the challenged decision .
3 His Offensive Weapons ( Scotland ) Bill would put the onus on the person carrying a knife to prove he or she had a valid reason for doing so .
4 The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other .
5 Your plugger should contact all the DJs with whom he or she has a good relationship , trying to persuade them to play your record .
6 The second must be that he or she has a long life .
7 If the researcher is interested in discussions of government finance in the Treasury , he or she has a potential problem of informational over-kill .
8 Under the established system for electing members to the House of Commons , each elector has only one vote in a general election ; each constituency returns only one Member of Parliament ; and Members of the House of Commons are elected on a first-past-the-post ( winner takes all ) system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the seat whether or not he or she has an overall majority of all the votes cast in the constituency .
9 In operational terms , someone has a need for health care if he or she has the appropriate indications for the intervention in question .
10 Maggie was undressing him impatiently too although she had no real idea of what she was doing .
11 By the time she had got her cases up to the guest room , made the bed up and sorted out her food supplies it was beginning to get dark and , although she had a burning desire to go up to the studio , caution prevailed .
12 Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are .
13 ‘ Did … did you sleep here beside me last night ? ’ she demanded huskily , although she had a sinking feeling that she already knew the answer .
14 However , although she had an absolute majority of the MPs entitled to participate , she failed by four votes to register in addition the required 15 per cent margin ( 56 votes ) over Heseltine , and a second ballot was necessary .
15 It came to her as a shock that , although she had an excellent opportunity to be acquainted with high school children through her son , she did not know any of his friends .
16 Although she had an unpleasant feeling that she did know who formed the current centrepiece of this particular seraglio .
17 However , although she has a pear-shaped figure , her height makes it easy for her to disguise the fact that her shoulders are narrower than her hips .
18 With a slight sense that things were moving faster than anticipated , Loretta admitted that she had no firm plans for the next day .
19 She was only half aware that Rachel was heavily subsidising her rent , because she was living in a part of London and a sort of house so different from her friends that she had no easy comparisons .
20 It was then that her stomach began to yaw , for it occurred to her that she had no solid evidence at all with which to tackle Taczek .
21 She replied that she had no such intention .
22 Finally a woman I worked with told me in no uncertain terms that she had no such desire , which threw me utterly .
23 ‘ Ladies ’ verse' became a phrase of scorn ; anthologies ceased to include any , readers forgot its existence , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning was able to complain that she had no poetic grandmothers .
24 At first she felt slightly awkward , but he said little , merely stood and watched her , and she was relieved that she had no difficult cases , but found the work straightforward .
25 " When the Madam gave me the keys and deeds of this house in Easter week , 1916 , she said that it was mine , that she had no further use for it .
26 In some ways she was happy that she had no conscious memory of the details , but unless she was able to recall them she knew that there would be no case for the young man to answer and he would go free .
27 ‘ Sarah explained that she had no more money , but the driver told her to get off . ’
28 Karen Sands , of the foundation , said that she had no particular worries about the changes in the short term .
29 The House of Lords eventually upheld her right , recognising that she had a genuine interest , but providers of information ( particularly the BMA ) and social services staff were extremely uneasy about the apparent danger to confidentiality of client files .
30 Knowing that she had a long day in front of her , Laura decided to follow her friend 's good example .
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