Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 2 | Er psychiatry has come a long way and er certain diagnostic st studies and diagnostic tests are taken of the individual erm and the doctors conclude whether or not the the work contributed to the problem or not . |
| 3 | And their bride has to wear er , all in red and er the bridegroo er groom has to wear a long costume with a red big flowers in front i aha and then they get married and there 's erm band , the Chinese traditional band with drums and trumpets blowing all the time and er , all the guests have a very nice time . |
| 4 | With cries of joy , it has been announced that women need not depend upon men for companionship and understanding ; women 's groups have become a commonplace , and support and friendship between women re-evaluated . |
| 5 | The prince 's decision has drawn a hostile reaction from many conservation organisations , including the Countryside Commission , not least because of the unprecedented length of the licences . |
| 6 | To help acquire the market lead in environmental information management systems , for example , Carroll 's division has concluded a major joint venture agreement with Environmental Resources Ltd , Europe 's largest environmental consulting company , which has offices in six countries and 300 consultants . |
| 7 | Gerald 's mum 's got a deep fat fryer , let you borrow that first see how th , ah , what they 're like . |
| 8 | [ By July 1972 the People 's Park had become a dusty , informal campsite for wayfarers ( Los Angeles Times , 30 July 1972 ) . ] |
| 9 | It would have been helpful if the report 's compilers had included a clinical virologist . |
| 10 | I took the tapes up to the embassy for analysis , and sure enough , it turned out that Yasser Arafat 's PLO had installed a listening post right next to ours . |
| 11 | In a bold and innovative move , Collins Children 's Books has forged a new and enhancing link with the Pre-School Playgroups Association . |
| 12 | Thin streaks of cirrus lay parallel to the horizon , and between them the sun 's orb had become a well-defined sphere of a rich rose-crimson . |
| 13 | P&O 's Rajputana had enjoyed a spotless record as an armed merchant cruiser before she fell victim to German submarine attack . |
| 14 | But as well as sharing in the donkey work , Platt 's goals have become a vital part of England 's armoury and before last week 's 4–0 win over Turkey he scored his country 's previous five goals . |
| 15 | Quinn 's goals have instilled a renewed belief that they will be involved in the title run-in . |
| 16 | Fakrid 's eyes had turned a livid yellow . |
| 17 | Verhoeven 's movie has lit a small bonfire under the gay community in America . |
| 18 | Mrs Knelle 's boy had attended a similar boarding school to the Cistercian college , and had then gone to Maynooth , a prestigious Dublin seminary for priests . |
| 19 | The cat 's independence has encouraged a widespread view that it is asocial and unco-operative . |
| 20 | Deborah 's parents had had a tumultuous relationship in which frequent violent arguments would be followed by tender love scenes . |
| 21 | Diana 's parents had had an unhappy marriage . |
| 22 | Your children will inherit a world in which Basil 's influence has made a great contribution . |
| 23 | Ipuky 's confession had lit a bright torch in the dark labyrinth of his investigation . |
| 24 | Nothing daunted , the BBC 's engineers have designed a clever re-recording technique for receiving the sound and this could help them to win a prestigious international prize next month . |
| 25 | More than a tenth of the world 's soils have lost a substantial amount of their natural fertiliser in the past 45 years , according to the first results of a 15-year Global Assessment of Soil Degradation , funded by the UN Environment Programme . |
| 26 | Holford 's planners had to have a broad cultural background and were to be ‘ enablers ’ , building up from research and synthesis to a design end-product . |
| 27 | Thompson 's work has emphasised a tradition-based resistance to emerging capitalism but , Medick suggests , concentrates on only one dimension of the relationship between plebeian culture and the expansion of capitalist markets . |
| 28 | Dicey 's work has had a major and lasting impact . |
| 29 | The second way in which Hobhouse 's work has had a potent , if delayed , influence is through the later elaboration of his notion of ‘ citizenship ’ . |
| 30 | In the past 15 years Denison 's work has had a direct influence on the conservation movement in the North of England . |