Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Two organisations have now managed to set up clearing facilities enabling them to dispense hard currency in Moscow : Credobank , a Moscow-based commercial bank , began offering cash advances to Visa card holders from early March and American Express has been offering a limited service to its card holders from its Moscow representative office ; Credobank has an on-line connection to a London clearing centre to check all cards — the connection was organised by Sprint Networks ; the bank also plans to offer cash service in some Moscow hotels . |
2 | Louis Armstrong has a good claim to being the most influential popular singer of the century . |
3 | Andy has a large input to the design side , having the enjoyment of being able to turn ideas in to reality and then use them to give a financial return . |
4 | In the UEFA Cup Aston Villa have a tough trip to Slovan Bratislava . |
5 | If so , Scotland has a different approach to such matters from that of the rest of the United Kingdom . |
6 | John Sewell has a unique claim to a place in any gallery of Palace heroes , because he was the popular and talented skipper of the team which took our club into the 1st Division for the first time in its history , back in 1969 . |
7 | Blackpool Moody had a certain ring to it . |
8 | Maggie had a tremendous urge to simply say , Shut up ! but she curbed her impulse and managed a rather sour smile , very grateful when Ana came across to her . |
9 | You have to have some enthusiasm to do such a person justice , whereas Jahn has an instinctive antipathy to him and listens with his ears half stopped up . |
10 | ‘ Bryan had an exceptional start to the season and that certainly was my reasoning behind bringing him back into the Turkey game , ’ said Taylor . |
11 | Therefore Caliban had a special value to the Perots. ( 4 ) In breach of their duties , the defendants failed to disclose that material fact to the plaintiff . |
12 | Rafferty had the opposite experience to Couples on the fifth , kicking off a bank into the lake , and also went in water on the long 16th . |
13 | A man of vaulting ambitions with the talents to match , passionately devoted to his house and ambitious for his favourite grandson , the twelve-year-old Robert , making no secret now that Alexander III was dead that the House of Bruce had the best claim to the Scottish throne . |
14 | Neath then won a ruck in Bridgend 's 22 and after Laity had committed two defenders , Barclay had a clear overlap to the corner . |
15 | Throughout his career Williams had an uncertain relation to Marxism , sometimes adversarial , sometimes allied , and was uncomfortably conscious of paradoxes and difficulties in his establishment position as a professor at Cambridge and a leading British intellectual . |
16 | Philip had a great deal to be pleased about . |
17 | Thereafter the Turkish menace was laid to rest and Venice had no serious challenge to its authority in Dalmatia until Napoleon extinguished the republic itself in 1797 . |
18 | LIVERPOOL have been drawn at home to Chorley in the fourth round of the English Schools Trophy , but Kirkby Knowsley have a tough journey to Gateshead . |
19 | And does n't the Bradford , Bingley & Dagenham have a convincing ring to it ? |
20 | For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe . |
21 | Enlil had an ambivalent attitude to mankind . |
22 | It argues that Britain has a moral responsibility to its citizens in Hong Kong ; that Hong Kong people ‘ do not want to leave … they seek an insurance policy ’ ; that Britain is ‘ markedly ungenerous to its colonies ’ compared with other European countries ; and that ‘ insofar as any Hong Kong people were to move to Britain , they would be a valuable asset to the British economy ’ . |
23 | Sally has a relaxed approach to decoration . |
24 | Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday . |
25 | Mark Ramprakash of Middlesex had a mixed start to the season , a 57-ball century following a £500 fine for an outburst against a Cambridge University batsman |
26 | Peterborough substitute Peter Costello had a great chance to be an instant hero . |
27 | Although the CGR has no formal commitment to undergraduate teaching the CGR accepts students studying towards higher degrees . |
28 | We feel it 's important to establish a strong Celtic festival , and Glasgow has a strong attachment to both the Irish and the Scottish Celtic traditions . |
29 | The house of Béarn had a strong claim to Bigorre on Esquivat 's death , as the much-married Petronilla , countess of Bigorre ( 1190–1251 ) had ordained in her will that , should her grandson Esquivat die without heirs , the comté was to be held by her daughter Mathe de Bigorre , wife of Gaston VII of Béarn . |
30 | Sean had a free ticket to the Smorgasbord as he was the driver but the waiter charged me only half price after hearing where we had been . |