Example sentences of "have an independent [noun] " in BNC.

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1 HSE has an independent division which aims to ensure high standards in software production .
2 They assume that the natural world has an independent existence of its own , which is as it is regardless of those who are studying it , and which is governed by laws which can be discovered by the research scientist if only the right methods can be developed .
3 The empirical question , then , is whether common sense has been so changed by the new materialist hegemony , or whether , as Gramsci believed , it still has an independent existence in modern consciousness .
4 It was set up last year at the behest of the Labour leader , John Smith , but has an independent life under Sir Gordon Borrie , former director-general of the Office of Fair Trading .
5 The natural history of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis has not been clearly documented , and it is not known whether its presence has an independent influence on the prognosis of the affected patient .
6 The right to invalidate legislation obviously in one sense invades the principle that each department has an independent sphere of action and a right to take its own view on matters of constitutionality .
7 It has an independent recommendation , although one that needs more argument that has been supplied here .
8 Though supporting evidence is scarce , there are reasons to argue that birth order has an independent effect on the chances of survival .
9 Giles has an independent streak and would expect no favour from me .
10 They 've had an independent survey .
11 The preference is for things so young — like baby chickens with infant vegetables — that they have barely had an independent existence we might have to acknowledge robbing them of .
12 Mr Patten has conceded that the council should have an independent chairman who can represent the United Kingdom at home and abroad .
13 For instance , these reactors are the only ones in the country with power over one megawatt which do not have an independent shut-down system .
14 When asked in 1890 if a country like Russia should not have an independent Ministry of Agriculture , Vyshnegradsky was responsible for another bon mot : ‘ But the Minister of Agriculture will not have anything to do . ’
15 In the process of transmission the message does not have an independent existence .
16 It is something that can have an independent existence , that is , can be distinctly identified .
17 Second , the Commission was urging that the EEC , by which it meant itself , should have an independent source of revenue out of which it could finance its own activities : the EEC was still dependent upon direct contributions from national treasuries .
18 Like Scotland , Wales does not have an independent Local Government Commission to make representations on future structure as is happening in England .
19 If you select a company which is n't a member of the BSIA or NACoSS , you wo n't have an independent body to support you in any claim you may wish to make .
20 Would it have an independent future ?
21 and , and in that case it does have an independent effect , it 's an incremental effect upon the restrictiveness and that makes it bad in itself
22 However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have .
23 During the course of the nineteenth century , archaeology moved in a quite different direction , becoming , like the earlier diffusionary theories , increasingly obsessed with objects as such , and treating them as having an independent behaviour in a manner which separated them from any social context and which amounted to a genuine fetishism or the artefact .
24 But if you are one of the 75 per cent who have decided against having an independent survey , then read on — you need this book more than anyone .
25 Women in paid employment are more likely to have an independent income .
26 As Durkheim and others have tried to demonstrate , these relationships seem to have an independent existence over and above the individuals who compose them .
27 The right to have an independent determination arises when negotiations between the parties have broken down ; but what if the parties have never tried to agree ?
28 The Joint Co-ordinating Committee to be set up to maintain standards countrywide is now to have an independent chairman .
29 ‘ The umpires are simply determined to have an independent chairman who can fight for us on contractual and legal matters .
30 The method , however , lacks flexibility , and for an apparatus this size it was essential to have an independent power source so that adjustments could be carried out in the event of failure .
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