Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the proposals for added emphasis paragraphs in respect of disclosures about inherent uncertainties have a number of drawbacks . |
| 2 | Indeed , it was not at all unusual for civic authorities to have a mourning sword which , on the death of a monarch , alderman or council member , was carried in the procession before the mayor in place of the civic sword . |
| 3 | The ends of transposable sequences have a sort of molecular signature consisting of short stretches of DNA that are direct repeats of one another . |
| 4 | According to the study , published tomorrow ( Thursday October 29 ) said to be the largest of its kind ever undertaken in the UK , six per cent of British households have a horse-rider in the family and the average horse owner , there are about 252,000 of them , spends more than £5,000 on their horse . |
| 5 | However , the small number of implied covenants have a part to play in contributing towards the comfort of tenants and some have attracted the attention of Parliament . |
| 6 | Its internal structuring , however , may be on a geographical basis in terms of area offices and on a client basis in terms of individual officials having a number of cases to deal with . |
| 7 | This modern justification of the discretionary power of corporate managers has a parallel in administrative law where we find that one of the arguments used to legitimate conferring discretionary power on administrative agencies has been their expertise and special competence in a particular field . |
| 8 | Every group of human beings has a set of agreed emotive fragments . |
| 9 | The clear distinction made by these two conditionals gives a clear sense to talk , mainly by philosophers , of causal circumstances having a power lacked by effects , and so on . |
| 10 | The Association of Blind Catholics has a lending library of books recorded on standard cassette . |
| 11 | The Association of Blind Catholics has a lending library of books recorded on standard cassette . |
| 12 | By the way of contrast The Independent , building up a composite Independent person from figures supplied by the same research company ( TGI ) , announced that 23.9% of Independent readers have a household income exceeding £25,000 , 44.2% of them own a car , 31.4% own stocks and shares , 9% play cricket , 71.9% bought records in the last year and in the same period 51.2% purchased at least one pair of sports shoes while 14% spent over £50 in garden centres . |
| 13 | As parasitic tissues generally depend for survival on a more rapid synthesis of nucleic acid than the tissues on which they prey , anything which stopped the synthesis of nucleic acids had a chance of harming parasites more than their hosts . |
| 14 | Now over 20 per cent of American households have a Nintendo , and the Atari VCS is just a fond memory . |
| 15 | At the time , the television networks served up images of Gap-wearing middle-managers having a day out . |
| 16 | A charity which paid for a group of Russian orphans to have a holiday in England has brought them back again . |
| 17 | In the first place , the historian of recent times has a subject-matter different in kind from that studied by some of his colleagues . |
| 18 | The equal opportunities/human rights lobby believes that people with special needs have a right to participate fully at all levels of education on a par with their peers who do not have special needs . |
| 19 | Public relations departments in large organisations have a number of channels open to them and they should utilise a mixture of these to disseminate information — notice boards , in-house journals , videos , briefings and meetings . |
| 20 | Two people pulling in opposite directions have a tug-of-war . |
| 21 | In complex cases have a strategy section that you can refer to at a glance which includes any plan of the case . |
| 22 | For example , it was found that seven-year-old children in the sample from non-manual homes had a reading age 16 months ahead of children from manual and unskilled homes . |
| 23 | In other words to have a file of lecturers in lecturer number order , another in name order , another in status order , and yet another one according to qualification . |
| 24 | A sceptic at the RHA might thus have good reason to believe that aside from development of hospital units either in teaching hospitals or in other hospitals having a subaltern relation to them through training arrangements , not much else would happen to achieve the aims of the government 's priority services strategy . |
| 25 | In the Labour Code , no legal obligation to provide nursery facilities has been included and only in recent years has a clause been added to the effect that the state will regulate the obligation of employers to maintain nurseries ( Art . |
| 26 | Tramway track on straight sections has a life of 25–30 years , but on sharp curves has to be renewed every 2–3 years , although this life has been extended by ribbon welding ( see p. 101 ) . |
| 27 | Investors keen on emerging markets have a choice of vehicles from Templeton . |
| 28 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 29 | A separated spouse would be regarded as a spouse for the purpose of these provisions unless , in accordance with existing practice on other provisions having a bearing on ‘ settlor interest ’ trusts , the separation is permanent . |
| 30 | It is doubtful if we can talk about modern nations having a culture in the sense that we can say that there is a monolithic entity called American culture or British culture . |