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 | A WOMAN and a child had a narrow escape yesterday when their car left the road . |
| 12 | Elizabeth 's Privy Council had a free hand only in executive matters . |
| 13 | The wood had a different feeling now . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So the forest has a sacred character too ; men may go regularly into it , but women are not permitted the same ease of access . |
| 16 | Oceanic lithosphere has a mean density rather close to that of the immediately underlying asthenosphere . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The place had a seedy atmosphere totally out of keeping with Angy 's flower-like freshness . |
| 19 | Swindon Town have a new manager tonight . |
| 20 | I think we can expect our keeper to have a good game always , with exceptional games often enough . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So next time you 're thinking of reaching for the tablets or slumping miserably into despair , try having a good laugh instead . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ By the way , your father has a new horse today . |
| 26 | So silent viewing has a diagnostic function too . |
| 27 | The lamb had a nice expression rather like a kitten 's . |
| 28 | Among Victorian novelists the abbey has a spiritual significance much closer to that with which Pugin , Carlyle , and Disraeli himself invested it , as an admonitory contrast with modem values . |
| 29 | Una has a good home here and she wants for nothin' . |
| 30 | Where in registered land a new covenant is given by the wife to the building society a certified copy of the transfer containing the covenant should be lodged with the deeds so that the building society has a proper record there of the wife 's liability , the transfer incorporating the covenant itself being retained at the Land Registry . |