Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The very young Aplysia has a nervous system consisting of relatively few neurons , while the period of onset of the capacity to show sensitization as a behavioural phenomenon matches that of a great increase in neuronal number ; yet if all that sensitization required was the facilitatory response in a set of three neurons of the network described earlier , it is hard to see why , by contrast with habituation , it should be dependent on such an increase in neuronal number .
2 That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight .
3 Romania has a long way to go before it can even begin to climb out of its paralysis .
4 Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity .
5 As to rare cine film taken of the line , we know that Bill Cross of Shrewsbury has a small section showing ‘ No 1 ’ going through the level crossing at Horderley .
6 West Germany has a constitutional obligation to accept East Germans , so the parallel with Third World economic and environmental refugees is not exact .
7 Consider the sentence : Roger has a black dog called Ben .
8 G-JOEY has a comic face painted on its long snout .
9 At home and abroad , Mr Gorbachev has an awful lot to lose from a fight .
10 ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days .
11 Garrison Savanah has a few tales to tell … he won the big race at Cheltenham 3 years ago and tomorrow the Gloucestershire favourite will be off and running for the big prize at Newbury
12 ‘ Wait till you have a bloody beard and all , ’ Hoomey had sympathized with him on occasion , for Mr Singh had a large beard secured under his turban .
13 Jeff had a small job to do on the boat .
14 This Pavel Sergeevich had an adoptive son living in Zvenigorod .
15 Lacking today 's liberal pre-trial discovery , 19th century United States shippers suing in the United States had a difficult time proving the carriers ' negligence .
16 The editorial goes on to say that Harrods had a perfect right to remove from its windows a product which alienated the customers , just as the V&A had not really committed an act of censorship .
17 In no time at all Travis had a good fire going , and the heat from it drew her to her knees beside it , hands held out to the warmth .
18 Anticipating an element of competitiveness , Aldercine had the central area marked out with sticky tape and traffic cones in readiness for a series of games .
19 One minute before the break Dundee had a great chance to equalise when Dodds broke through , but Maxwell got a hand to the attempted lob .
20 Yangon home service reported on Sept. 11 that monks and students in Mandalay had the previous day attacked security forces , injuring 11 security personnel .
21 That assurance , derived from the conviction that the WEA had a major role to play in society and that the Eastern District was successful in fulfilling it , was apparent in the paper , ‘ A Consideration of Aims and Purposes ’ , written by former treasurer Edward Miller in 1956 .
22 Molly had a bad moment wondering if her father had somehow used the fate of Giovanna 's parents to blackmail the cleaning lady .
23 THE Javanese have a legendary fruit called the simalakama .
24 LEAs have a statutory obligation to provide an ‘ efficient ’ and ‘ suitable ’ education , as far as possible ‘ in accord with parental wishes ’ .
25 All LEAs have a statutory duty to have policies on the various aspects of the education service for which they are responsible .
26 Does the Minister agree that , as Northern Ireland has the fewest days lost through stoppages or industrial action and is governed by the same industrial relations legislation as Great Britain , it should be in a special position to attract inward investment ?
27 But Scotland has a long way to go before the symbiosis of locals and visitors becomes a reality .
28 ‘ The professionalism in the Italian league is unbeatable , ’ he once claimed , doubting that Scotland has the cultural capacity to compete .
29 And Andrzej Seweryn 's Yudhishthira has an Olympian calm betrayed by a vicious mole of nature in the form of compulsive gambling .
30 It has co-operated with her tennis progress , so much so that Zara has a special timetable to accommodate her tennis .
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