Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] has [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Hobbes ‘ s talk of ‘ true ratiocination ’ is an indication that he has some theory of what reason or ratiocination is , some explanation or analysis of it .
2 when Moore says he knows such and such [ for instance that he has two hands : JD ] he is really enumerating a lot of empirical propositions which we affirm without special testing ; propositions , that is , which have a peculiar logical role in the system of our empirical propositions .
3 However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be .
4 ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’
5 It is the view of the group that it has another role in promoting dialogue on particular areas of concern : the comments on ‘ Data Sources and Research Methodology ’ produced last year are an example .
6 They have called on the Northern Regional Health Authority to issue a categorical denial that it has any plans to merge 15 health care districts into six super districts .
7 Had the above account been a linguistic account , an explanation of the meaning of ‘ legitimate authority ’ , it would have followed that anyone who believes of a person that he has legitimate authority believes that that person satisfies the condition set by the justification thesis .
8 Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigner Bridget Woodman said : ‘ Nuclear Electric wants to operate Sizewell B in the full knowledge that it has sub-standard components and an increased potential for a disastrous accident . ’
9 It need not , therefore , be related to any act performed in the belief that it has normative consequences .
10 There are three elements : ( a ) an intent to make a demand with menaces ; ( b ) a view to gain for himself or another , or intent to cause loss to another ; ( c ) either no belief that he has reasonable grounds for making the demand or no belief that the use of menaces is a proper form of reinforcing the demand
11 ( g ) Section 12(6) exculpates the person who acts " in the belief that he has lawful authority to do [ what he had done ] or that he would have the owner 's consent if the owner knew of his doing it and the circumstances of it " .
12 This way of justifying a claim that someone has legitimate authority , i.e. that those subject to his authority should acknowledge the authoritative force of his directives , is not the only one .
13 Instead , one has to adopt the effective theory that one has free will and that one is responsible for one 's actions .
14 This makes sense when taken together with IBM Europe 's statement that it has excess manufacturing capacity : rather than close the plants straight away , it has thrown them to the market — they will get business from IBM but only as long as they can provide products at the going market rate .
15 A clear example of this may be seen in the learner driver who grips the steering wheel so tightly with one hand that he has great difficulty in moving the wheel with the other .
16 Someone , for example , who finds himself in the embarrassing situation of seeming to have winked at an unknown passer-by may offer the account that he has some grit in his eye — this often accompanied by a flurry of overacted eyelid-rubbing and nose-blowing .
17 Practice and research are intertwined ; good doctors have an obligation to inquire as well as to provide a clinical service , and codes of conduct and ethical guidelines that recommend different rules for practice and research create an undesirable dichotomy that itself has ethical implications .
18 He puts forward an ethic consisting of habits of mind and of behaviour to which he thinks one will inevitably move to the extent that one has rational insight into the human situation and is under the control of that rational part of one 's nature which gives one unity as a personality .
19 Furthermore , the duty to uphold and support just institutions is , in some respects , wider than the duty which devolves on one as a result of the fact that someone has legitimate authority over one , in three different ways .
20 Over and above the fact that he has three clerks ,
21 A terse phone call from Arthur Edwards , a long-serving photographer from The Sun newspaper , whose avuncular manner belies the fact that he has excellent sources inside the royal world , reinforced the message .
22 But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none .
23 But even if the Church takes this controversial step , there remains the fact that it has few structures for evaluating its chief resource .
24 The fact that it has well-defined aims and a specific medium of operation also augurs well for its successful continuation .
25 ‘ The fact that it has some kind of playful relationship with Birmingham is something with which readers of my novels can easily cope .
26 This criterion does not apply to the pronouns he and she ( do n't be fooled by the fact that she has more letters ; it still has only two sounds ) .
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