Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICARDA 's multidisciplinary staff of over 60 senior scientists and 600 technical and support personnel has an international mandate for barley , faba bean and lentil production improvement and — with other centres — a joint regional mandate for wheat and chickpea production improvement . |
| 2 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
| 3 | In the horse , T. axei has a prepatent period of 25 days while in game birds infected with T. tenuis it is only 10 days . |
| 4 | ‘ it is difficult to see how these ( organisation ) problems can be solved efficiently without restoring responsible autonomy to primary groups throughout the system and ensuring that each of these groups has a satisfying sub-whole as its work task , and some scope for flexibility in work-pace . |
| 5 | I do think the artificial division of people into age groups has a damaging effect on society . |
| 6 | Every assignment on schools has a basic target of five thousand pounds all right ? |
| 7 | Prolonged staring with wide-open eyes has a special significance for the cat . |
| 8 | As the subject of historical studies , and the heroine of romantic fiction , Mary Queen of Scots has a massive lead over all other earthly Maries , only the Virgin scoring more heavily — as even the most cursory glance at the British Library Catalogue of Printed Books makes clear . |
| 9 | The Barber Institute of Fine Arts has a leading part in Birmingham 's cultural renaissance . |
| 10 | This is consistent both with politicians being larger than people who simply wish to be in office whatever they have to do , and with parties having a central number of supporters who share an ideology . |
| 11 | Under Article 28 ( a ) of the Convention the Assembly of the Organisation was to elect the Maritime Safety Committee from the ‘ governments of those nations having an important interest in maritime safety of which not less than eight shall be the largest ship-owning nations … |
| 12 | Classes are crowded , with 40 per cent of schools having a teacher-pupil ratio of 45:1 or higher , and many schools have multi-grade classes . |
| 13 | Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments . |
| 14 | And in a third sense , literature is thought by many structuralists to have a special relationship to language , in that it involves a unique awareness of the nature of language itself . |
| 15 | He found the animals to have a marked preference for woodland borders where they would build their communal nests . |
| 16 | The United Provinces had a Scottish brigade in their service until the last years of the century . |
| 17 | Her movements as she ran down the steps had an overflowing grace of energy . |
| 18 | The pressure waves had a mean amplitude of 64 ( 37 ) mm Hg in the distal oesophagus ( mean value for 5 , 10 , and 15 cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter , and a duration of 3. ( 1.0 ) seconds . |
| 19 | In an age that was becoming increasingly fascinated with history , the prospect of extending the antiquity of life itself by uncovering the remains of bizarre and often gigantic animals had a romantic appeal outside the realms of science . |
| 20 | His eyes had a smouldering look in them , and she felt she was being hypnotised . |
| 21 | But the look in his eyes had a peculiar effect on me . |
| 22 | That ground is a grubber kick away from Hong Kong Football Club where the Scottish Survivors had a grand day in the ten-a-side event winning all their three matches against Bucks RFC ( Singapore ) , 45-0 ; Hong Kong Forces , 34-0 ; and Wombats ( Australia ) , 43-0 . |
| 23 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
| 24 | Agricultural pesticides had a devastating effect on numbers during the 50s and early 60s but since certain chemicals have been banned the figure has risen to around 1,050 pairs . |
| 25 | Until recently , the Labour and Tory Parties had a cosy understanding about Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | The smell of meths had an unforeseen affect on the foal , and in some strange way stimulated the foal 's aggressive instinct . |
| 27 | But the Mesopotamian Jews had a firm tradition of loyalty to the Seleucids , whereas the Palestinian Jews had become part of the Syrian state only about 200 B.C. The Seleucids gladly used the Mesopotamian Jews as soldiers , and the contribution of the Babylonian Jews to the defence of their city during an enemy attack was regarded as being so famous by the author of II Maccabees that he did not think it necessary to specify the circumstances ( 8.20 ) . |
| 28 | The intention was to place a legal obstacle in the way of anyone seeking to imitate the Ordainers , but the Statute of York should not be taken to mean that the king and his supporters had a high view of the function of parliament . |
| 29 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
| 30 | Each of the individual images had a substantial component of uniqueness . |