Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , writers such as Badie and Birnbaum ( 1983 ) or Moore ( 1967 ) operating from a broad historical perspective suggest that states have a distinct character resulting from long-term processes of political development . |
| 2 | Additionally the right qualification ensures that employers have a good idea of an individual 's capabilities . |
| 3 | And , in view of her theory that anorexics have a poor sense of their own size , weight and proportions in general , it may be interesting to examine more closely the status of the eldest child and more specifically the eldest daughter . |
| 4 | In particular the HMI discuss the role of schools in a changing society , arguing , for example , that schools have a limited role in social change , and rejecting the ‘ curriculum for violent change ’ . |
| 5 | Furthermore , three other significant reports ( Hargreaves 1984 , Thomas 1985 and Mortimore 1988 ) continue to present evidence that schools have a significant influence on pupil behaviour . |
| 6 | This , however , proved to be wholly inappropriate for Wellcome 's needs , largely due to the fact that GIS had a big effect on the system response times and that the amount of report formatting which was required proved to be unmanageable for on-line GIS . |
| 7 | Furthermore , he argues that proper-nouns have a grammatical structure , and that the compositional rules for such compounds will have to be written into NLP systems . |
| 8 | Granted that words have a certain elasticity of meaning , the general rule remains that the judges regard themselves as bound by the words of a statute when these words clearly govern the situation before the court . |
| 9 | In general we assume that words have a standardised spelling in British English . |
| 10 | Studies that have examined parental influences on children 's eating patterns have shown that parents have a significant influence . |
| 11 | The point is : virtually everyone in sport , to some extent , accepts that blacks have a natural ability at sport which functions at both physical and intellectual levels . |
| 12 | It was a strong and diverse movement which originally had its roots in the hippie communes and the pop lyrics of the earlier Sixties , but had , by the end of the decade , encompassed so many political and social causes — particularly in America — that governments had a full-time spy network , through the likes of the FBI , the CIA and Scotland Yard 's Special Branch , keeping tabs on its leaders . |
| 13 | It sometimes seems that individuals have a startling impact on this pattern which can only be understood by appealing to specific psychological traits . |
| 14 | The problem with using thalamic nuclei as a guide to cortical organization is that primates have a thalamic nucleus , with extensive cortical projections , for which there is no clearly identifiable homologue in other species . |
| 15 | The implication is that lenders have a myopic outlook with a tendency to discount the future more heavily . |
| 16 | Concentrating upon the growth in government budgets as an indicator of the size of government in the United States , Niskanen argues that officials have a vested interest in maintaining large budgets . |
| 17 | It is certainly true that pigeons with bar magnets attached to their heads navigate incorrectly on overcast , but not on sunny , days ( Figure 4.9 ) ; which suggests both that pigeons have a magnetic sense , and that it may be used by pigeons as a back-up compass sense when the sun is invisible . |
| 18 | Indeed the size of the profession means that actuaries have a strong sense of fellowship which it is difficult to achieve in other professions with memberships numbering many tens of thousands . |
| 19 | The radical changes which are taking place in the pensions industry mean that actuaries have a growing responsibility to ensure that desirable objectives — such as easily transferable pensions — are achievable in practice . |
| 20 | Is it true that accountants have a special dispensation ? |
| 21 | It seems to me that things have a nasty habit of going haywire around you . ’ |
| 22 | The introduction of characters " names is strangely delayed — but this is accountable if we consider that names have a low priority in the elaboration of psychological reality : if James had begun his first sentence : " Pemberton hesitated and procrastinated " , he would have succeeded in giving his main character a label , and nothing else . |
| 23 | And it is important to make sure that zips have a generous baffle behind them to prevent cold spots . |
| 24 | It has been said that Englishmen have a paranoid suspicion of Oriental cunning , but it was becoming more apparent with every passing day that Javed Miandad and his team were just as concerned about the probity of their hosts . |
| 25 | The absolutist view is that this would not be a sufficient appreciation of the matter and that corporations have a separate liability to tax . |
| 26 | The Intrex findings showed that users had a strong preference for online instruction over offline manuals ( Marcus et al ) . |
| 27 | It is cheaper than the proprietary machines most organisations use and it means that users have a wide choice of suppliers . |
| 28 | We have seen that liquids have a fixed volume and take the shape of the container . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that children learn far more by example than by precept , and therefore that teachers have a continuous obligation to behave well themselves . |
| 30 | One way of ensuring that locals have a reasonable chance of winning is to slightly bias just a few of the questions . |