Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fingers has a certain visual appeal , but you do need at least a 386 and 3Mb of memory to run it . |
| 2 | The irrepressible Kay Ward , famous for her naughty jokes and amazing vocal talents has a new alternative show for those of stronger morals , and guess what ? no saucy comments , just sensational singing from Kay in her new , smut-free role . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , on the other side of the park , a huge crowd of all ages has a right old laugh in front of the stage on which stomp a Teddy Boy-outfitted showband blasting out Showaddywaddy 's greatest hits liberally mixed with C&W classics . |
| 4 | States ' and governments ' emphases on nationalism and blood ties has a deep-rooted emotional significance for individuals . |
| 5 | Each of the six bedrooms has a small panelled closet . |
| 6 | Her eyes had a sudden dreamy look . |
| 7 | One of the cages had a movable inner wall which could slide along rails the full length of the interior . |
| 8 | She believed what she had said and yet those last words had a curious prophetic ring — as if somewhere in those uncharted seas which man calls Time , they were echoing and re-echoing into the future . |
| 9 | Despite the almost annoying quality of their persistence , the words had a certain romantic ring that appealed to her . |
| 10 | The unspoken words had a fanciful storybook-by-Henty quality , far away and distant as bugles blowing . |
| 11 | Strong positive correlations were indeed found between measures of the integration of images into dream plots with the integration of the unrelated slides into dream stories made up while awake , showing that their subjects had a consistent characteristic style of integration while awake and asleep . |
| 12 | His narrow shoulders had a permanent forward-drooping hunch , with the result that clothes seemed to hang off him in shapeless folds . |
| 13 | The six children with no colonic contractions had a hollow visceral myopathy and constipation . |
| 14 | As against the chaos , or alternatively the uncritical archaism , of such moral thought , he recommends that we tidy up our ethical language so that the words have a firm utilitarian sense . |
| 15 | Porfiry 's words have a heightened transpersonal effect because Svidrigailov has just told Raskolnikov the same thing . |
| 16 | As I said before — was it to Hugo , or to you , Mrs Jones ? — curses have a peculiar knock-on effect . |
| 17 | Scottish primary schools have a new educational aid — the BP Contexts Box . |
| 18 | NOT all schools have a sculptured wooden archway in the playground but Middlesbrough 's Easterside Primary does . |
| 19 | Both rackets have a synthetic protective bumper guard and both come in two colourways . |
| 20 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 21 | The babyfood market is worth many tens of millions of pounds a year and so the manufacturers have a great vested interest in when babies begin solids and what they eat . |
| 22 | Generally only calves during their first grazing season are clinically affected , since on farms where the disease is endemic older animals have a strong acquired immunity . |
| 23 | Competitive environments have a powerful stimulant effect on a class . |
| 24 | Snails with right-handed spiral cleavage have shells which coil with the same handedness , and left-handed shells have a left-handed spiral cleavage . |
| 25 | Dr Wendy Barron , Curator of the Government Art Collection tells The Art Newspaper , ‘ These books have a definite diplomatic purpose , in helping foreign visitors to our embassies to appreciate their contents . |
| 26 | But some modern valves have a small adjusting screw close to the actual valve mechanism . |
| 27 | The increased need will be for ‘ salesmen to have a deep technical knowledge of the products they are selling , as well as knowledge of the customers ’ applications ’ . |
| 28 | Nor did the fact that the defendants had a direct financial interest in securing a sale of Vertigo constitute a breach of fiduciary duty since the contract of agency envisaged that they might have such a conflict of interest . |
| 29 | In Tervoort 's ( 1983 ) survey he discovered six of his responding countries had a signed spoken language form ( Finland , Ireland , Norway , Rumania , Sweden and the Soviet Union ) , but he also discovered in a further five countries an ‘ unofficial ’ system of signs structured to reflect the spoken language . |
| 30 | The rooms at the back were of course dark and pokey and the cupboards had a strange sickening shut-up smell that remained however much they aired them . |