Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The writer who adapted this H.E.Bates piece clearly understood that viewers want to feel cosy , and programmes such as this have a feel-good factor . |
2 | He had after all had a good conference . |
3 | So much for those who think that the Punch of old had a magic quality we have lost for ever . |
4 | The maximum of 30 had a marvellous evening , impeccably reported in the Standard and eagerly supported by the Senior Club 's officers , excepting the Artisans ' President , A. ( Archie ) R. Brakspear , who was unwell . |
5 | The Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 had a similar effect on the British in Northern Ireland . |
6 | However , notions which are the antithesis of this have a strong currency in the arts . |
7 | In some of these cases the company may be the market leader , that is to say it has the largest single share of the market and because of this has a major influence on market prices and product design . |
8 | A development of this has an inverted cone as a centre section , the water flowing down with heavy solids dropping to the bottom and then upwards at a controlled speed , so that falling lighter solids are balanced in the flow to form a " sludge blanket " , which acts as a buoyant filter catching very fine particles . |
9 | He was brought up in South Africa , and at the age of six had a serious accident which confined him to bed for three years . |
10 | The first thing to remember is that the England and Wales of 1700 has a total population of only five and a half million people . |
11 | In 12 patients ( 20% ) the serum creatinine concentration did not return to below 300 µmol/l ; one of these had a subsequent deterioration in renal function and two years later had started dialysis . |
12 | Group 3 consisted of 7 patients from six separate families ; each of these had an atypical naevus pattern and melanoma in a first-degree relative ( Kraemer et al 's category D ) . |
13 | Each of these has a fleshy base supported internally by bones the fin is , in effect , a rigid crutch . |
14 | Each of these has a large number of small firms as ‘ satellites ’ around it . |
15 | The first of these has a turbocharged 190hp 7.4-litre engine , made by Finnish company Valmet , and a strengthened transmission and back axle . |
16 | However , all of these have a sinister twist to them . |
17 | All of these have an accepted code of dress which the people who buy these records also adopt . |
18 | The Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act of 1984 had a startling impact on the state of new but troubled marriages . |
19 | As discussed above , the dramatic weakening of sterling in the second half of 1992 had a significant effect on the end year sterling expression in our balance sheet of US assets and liabilities , including our US dollar debt . |
20 | Immediately — before Edmund 's soliloquy , Edgar , still in disguise , has given the letter to Albany ( 40–50 ) , and for the first time the forces of good have a superior knowledge over the hypocrites . |
21 | Two factors at the start of 1922 had an inhibiting influence . |
22 | London in the 1950s suffered horrendous ‘ smogs ’ ( smoky fogs ) largely through burning coal in domestic grates ; the one of 1952 had an estimated pH of 1.6 , which made it more acid than lemon juice . |
23 | People with a maximum hygiene index score of 6 had a relative risk of 2.03 compared with those with an index of 0 , and those at the 90th centile ( score=3 ) were 1.42 times more likely to experience a coronary heart disease event than were those below the lowest decile ( score=0 ) . |
24 | The Combination Act of 1800 had a varied effect . |
25 | This means that those with the highest periodontal index score of 8 had a relative risk of 1.43 compared with those with a score of 0 , and those at the 90th centile of the distribution of the periodontal index ( score=5 ) had a relative risk of 1.25 compared with those below the lowest decile ( score=0 ) . |
26 | They begin with the essentially sound premiss that no physical property that one might have is a logically sufficient condition of one having a particular experience . |
27 | It is known that phosphorylation of the c-Jun A1 activation domain increases transcriptional activity of the protein ( 13 , 14 ) ; perhaps phosphorylation of Ser-249 has a similar effect on the A2 domain ( amino acid residues 238-257 ; ref. 29 ) . |
28 | A. borealis is similar to A. fragilis but may be distinguished from it by the following characters : the shape of the modified arm spines which are flattened often with an axe shaped tip in borealis , while those of fragilis have a serrated edge ; the number of arm spines ; borealis has 3–4 , fragilis has 5–7 arm spines ; the distal oral papillae , which in borealis are small and low , often two on each side of the jaw , in fragilis they are slightly larger and more spine-like , with usually only one on each side of the jaw . |
29 | Of course an operation like this has an extensive back-up requirement . |
30 | This is a serious problem , for defects like these have a dramatic effect on the functioning of an electronic device , and it would be desirable to be able to predict their properties . |