Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also reported that the Duchess of York 's sister had a new job . |
| 2 | Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life . |
| 3 | Presumably he meant an individual 's inability to have a national health service operation on demand . |
| 4 | Yet Dobson 's story had an undoubted attraction . |
| 5 | A GRIEVING family 's plea to have a symbolic teddy bear carved on their seven-week-old daughter 's grave has fallen on deaf ears . |
| 6 | Then again , for a planet with Venus 's mass to have a gravitational effect on the Earth even as strong as that of the Moon , it would have to pass within about four million kilometres ( 2,500,000 miles ) . |
| 7 | Mr Brandreth added : ‘ In terms of quality of personnel , the present team at Queen 's Park have a superb record that ca n't be rivalled anywhere else in the country . |
| 8 | It expresses one 's readiness to have a certain attitude to the person named by ‘ you ’ if he acts in a certain way , and in a broad sense this readiness is itself an attitude . |
| 9 | It is the Company 's intention to have an operational presence in key member states as and when suitable opportunities arise . |
| 10 | Ritchin 's demonstration had a serious purpose : " The computer is at the heart of a revolution in image-making . |
| 11 | The negotiators immediately ran into a problem : no-one on Louis 's and Charles 's side had a thorough knowledge of the whole " empire " ( totius imperii ) . |
| 12 | Central St Martin 's College has a wide variety of BA degree courses . |
| 13 | What has been said about Tolkien 's poetry has an immediate bearing on that most attractive but least tractable subject , ‘ Tolkien 's mythology ’ . |
| 14 | Comte 's work had a significant impact in Britain . |
| 15 | Braudel 's work has a problematic tendency to regard certain societies as changeless , especially the so-called ‘ traditional ’ civilizations ( e.g. 1981 : 285 , 312 ) . |
| 16 | Lavoisier 's chemistry had a new language , but it had no system of symbols like the Arabic numerals . |
| 17 | Hemel 's skischool has a good reputation . |
| 18 | Although Henry 's desire to have a new wife and greater control over the English church was the primary incentive for the schism , Cromwell and the members of Anne Boleyn 's faction were also keen to bring about reform of the church ( see Chapters 4 and 6 ) . |
| 19 | The SW213 's body has a laminated spruce top with nato back and sides . |
| 20 | Commodore 's initiative has a generic similarity to the Philips CD-I concept . |
| 21 | Greenberg 's name has a special glamour because of his successful advocacy of Abstract Expressionist artists against ‘ the dominance of the School of Paris ’ , as Barbara Reise wrote . |
| 22 | As noted above , the mother 's education has a profound influence on the probability that her children will survive early childhood , yet her opportunities to obtain schooling are compromised by early marriage and the conventions that prescribe it . |
| 23 | One farmer 's wife had a 52-week job as a seamstress , with an average of 24 hours per week . |
| 24 | There was an emphasis on younger men : Kennedy 's Cabinet had an average age of 47 , 10 years younger than Eisenhower 's . |
| 25 | Anselm and the king 's envoy had an inconclusive meeting with the pope , Anselm remaining silent while members of the Curia openly took the king 's side . |
| 26 | Bowler 's father had a watchmaking business in West Hampstead . |
| 27 | Matilda 's father had a fine crop of black hair which he parted in the middle and of which he was exceedingly proud . |
| 28 | Jim 's father has a chronic drink problem and he eventually put the family out of their house . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Carson 's father has a prosperous cotton business in Manchester , ’ Mrs Carson said one day in her friendly manner . |
| 30 | A similar B1 Class Tradesman 's patch has a black shamrock , veined dark green , on the dark green square , and without the tank symbol . |