Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , they are treated more as grown-up students than as children to be spoon-fed , and this in almost every case has a good effect both on the work produced and on their motivation .
2 Yet this ancient borough has a maritime history as rich and proud as any West Country port .
3 The north doorway has a remarkable tympanum deeply set in the porch like that at Autun .
4 These are very strong powers , and it is clearly important to establish the meaning of ‘ development ’ , particularly since the term has a legal meaning far wider than in ordinary language .
5 Yet this stranger had a different manner altogether from the old doctor who , when he had n't his hearing aid in place , shouted as if it were you who were deaf .
6 The Felixstowe Justices case illustrates another way in which standing and merits are related : just as the journalist had a sufficient interest only in the general policy of secrecy and not in its application to a particular case , so the remedy to which he was entitled related only to the general policy .
7 I would say you could defend the British position because what it seems to me to be based on is first of all the idea that the institution itself should make the decision , and that surely is a democratic start , that you do n't lay down a rule from Newcastle to John O'Groats , or wherever , and that the people in the institution have a certain chemistry together .
8 You 'll need lots of patience , but as you say your boy has a good nature otherwise , the chances are you 'll succeed .
9 The igloo has a domed roof inside as well as out .
10 Local rugby has a big match tomorrow as well … there 's another round of league matches … the one we 're interested in is at Franklin Gardens …
11 It can be seen straight away that the Faculty has an enormous task merely trying to help members keep up-to-date with all these changes , to help them interpret some of the more obscure elements and , wherever possible , to pool their combined knowledge to match the tax authorities ' ability to pool their knowledge of the activities of taxpayers and their advisers .
12 Certainly the opening up of knowledge about finance does enable all heads of faculty to have an organisation-wide view rather than bidding behind closed doors .
13 A WOMAN and a child had a narrow escape yesterday when their car left the road .
14 Elizabeth 's Privy Council had a free hand only in executive matters .
15 The wood had a different feeling now .
16 Every culture in Britain at the moment has a similar philosophy as far as size goes : if you want to look good , be desirable , you 've got to be thin .
17 So the forest has a sacred character too ; men may go regularly into it , but women are not permitted the same ease of access .
18 Oceanic lithosphere has a mean density rather close to that of the immediately underlying asthenosphere .
19 Alec Stewart 's charge has a stiffer task here , but is getting 6lbs from the favourite which gives her a sporting chance of stopping Daru 's unbeaten run of four victories .
20 The place had a seedy atmosphere totally out of keeping with Angy 's flower-like freshness .
21 Swindon Town have a new manager tonight .
22 By virtue of sections 423(2) and 238 of the Act of 1986 the court has an overall discretion wide enough to enable it , if justice so requires , to make no order against the other party to the transaction .
23 I think we can expect our keeper to have a good game always , with exceptional games often enough .
24 Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival .
25 FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual midnight race had a lucky escape yesterday when their vessel flooded and began to sink three miles from the Isle of Man .
26 So next time you 're thinking of reaching for the tablets or slumping miserably into despair , try having a good laugh instead .
27 In sum then , though the Supplement has a good deal more to commend it than its 1977 parent , it comes across as a car-orientated guide , static in outlook and narrow-minded in perspective .
28 ‘ By the way , your father has a new horse today .
29 But as well as having a novel structure , the theory has an explanatory power quite unlike that of classical economics : for while the latter attempted to explain economic systems as a response to individual needs , Marx accounted for a much wider range of social phenomena in terms of the part they played in a totality .
30 So silent viewing has a diagnostic function too .
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