Example sentences of "[noun pl] has a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 2 | The trace elements in Sassanian silver provide one example , copper from the Hartz mountains has a very distinctive pattern of high concentrations of arsenic , cobalt , nickel and antimony , and there are a significant number of similar studies . |
| 3 | Discussion to emphasise key concepts has a very important role to play . |
| 4 | THE custom of formalising marriage with an exchange of rings has a fairly basic origin — the finger represents the male side of the bargain and the ring the female . |
| 5 | Phildrew Ventures has a slightly different strategy . |
| 6 | Obviously the activity of a pair of adult foxes feeding a family which could number as many as eight cubs has a quite drastic effect on the local rabbit population . |
| 7 | For a start , 1-2-3 for Windows has a more Lotus-compatible interface than any of the other Windows spreadsheets . |
| 8 | She characteristically underplays her education , intellect , and talent as a ‘ weaker Woman ’ , but her religious rationalization of women 's intellectual and social position in relation to men has a rather bitter tone : ‘ Eve 's Theft serv 'd but to dignify Man 's Soul , /Her Sex denied the Knowledge which she stole . ’ |
| 9 | This bizarre image at the bottom of this chain of catastrophic thoughts has a little old lady , starving and thirsty , a human skeleton , huddled in the corner of a glass-fronted lift in a busy department store . |