Example sentences of "have [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is apparently most excusable to rape your wife if she has for a period refused sexual intercourse ‘ unjustifiably ’ or if she has refused sexual intercourse unless her housekeeping money were raised , or even , curiously , ‘ in order to win her back . ’ |
| 32 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 33 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 34 | The Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys Longitudinal Study has for a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales in 1971 , brought together census information , with information about geographic movements noted in the National Health Service Central Register in 1971-74 . |
| 35 | High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals . |
| 36 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 37 | The ground resolution of a TM image is such that a pixel has about a 30 m side , which seems appropriate for the scale of analysis used . |
| 38 | The universality of social representations is expressed by Aebischer and Thommen ( 1983 ) , when they characterize social representations as ‘ all the knowledge and understanding that a society , or subgroup of the society , has about a given object ’ ( p. 5 ) . |
| 39 | It er has about a list of about thirty erm affordable housing . |
| 40 | Sue Weston ( Mrs Griffin ) has after a period of secondment returned to the National Childminding Association where she now works as their National Training Officer . |
| 41 | Her face seems to glow with happiness as if a vision has of a sudden become reality . |
| 42 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 43 | The story of an ambitious clerk , strange home life that he has with a a lover or two . |
| 44 | There is no trust deed , no trustee and the saver 's claim upon the assets of the trust is only the very general claim that any shareholder has upon a company . |
| 45 | The opportunity to own a home and pass it on is one of the most important rights an individual has in a free society . |
| 46 | The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) . |
| 47 | Their society has in a word been bowdlerised . |
| 48 | Even when the carer is a relative , when dementia is the disease carers may feel as if the old person has in a sense already died and left them so that ‘ this is not the mother I used to know ’ . |
| 49 | Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce . |
| 50 | As Davis has pointed out , the Supreme Court has in a number of decisions simply substituted judgment without reference to the reasonableness or rational basis test . |
| 51 | Indeed , where it has found that the statement of reasons fails to fulfil the requirements of Article 190 , the Court has in a number of cases annulled the measure in question . |
| 52 | Paragraph ( c ) would appear not to affect decisions in cases such as Kendall v. Lillico ( see paragraph 10–07 ) and Cointat v. Myham ( see paragraph 10–08 ) cases where the purchaser chooses to buy goods for his business from a seller whose terms he has in a consistent course of dealing been apparently quite happy to accept or where the purchaser buys goods in a market in which a trade custom shows that merchants have found exclusion terms to be acceptable . |
| 53 | ‘ the Kipling who limped out of the wreckage , shrunken and wry though he looks , has in a sense had his development as an artist ’ — Edmund Wilson : The Wound & the Bow |
| 54 | He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away . |
| 55 | The only thing Stewart has in a nice hair-style … so nice he wo n't head the ball . |
| 56 | Following from these considerations , Chapters 2 and 3 both contain precedents for use in non-consumer transactions , prepared from the point of view of the supplier and the customer respectively , to show examples of the different approaches that each party has in a situation where he has the preponderance of bargaining power , and wishes to use it . |
| 57 | Cornwall has in a separate identity with its own history , traditions , custom and language . |
| 58 | Well I suppose it has in a sense , yes , it 's enabled us to both confront the fact that that I 'm not all knowing and that I 'm not all powerful , which I mean was because my children , as I say , are still quite young , which is something new for them , I suppose , as well as something new for me . |
| 59 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 60 | There is no doubt that the progress achieved to date has to a significant extent been the result of your backing . ’ |