Example sentences of "has a special [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Miss Hinkle has a special voice she uses for her jokes .
2 Within SPRED groups , everyone has a special friend .
3 Everyone has a special friend
4 TOP RIGHT : Everyone has a special friend .
5 Within these small communities , each person with a mental handicap has a special friend .
6 Each individual piece of equipment has a special contribution to make ; for example , a tape recorder can be equally effective in stimulating discussion as a film , but films or video tapes are more effective for the demonstration of practical skills where movement is essential .
7 There is usually some characteristic along the route — perhaps a ledge or an especially rich bed of bloodworms — which has a special attraction , but quite often it is a turning point , or the terminal point , of a beat which is the hotspot .
8 Most people ‘ in the street ’ recognise what a teacher is ; most would accord a teacher of ( say ) French a certain status ( though perhaps not as much as the deserve ) as being someone who has a special skill or expertise .
9 If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great .
10 If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great .
11 The company is also introducing the Pro-Mat , a synthetic tee area made from a tough turf fabric that has a special backing for durability .
12 The written word always has a special sanctity and more so if it is from a contemporary source , but it needs to be examined with the same ruthless and objective scrutiny as given to the archaeological evidence .
13 What Willis emphasises is that the culture of the shop floor is bounded and has a special sense of completeness about it .
14 The answer is that this third human state has a special feature that distinguishes it from the other two ( the inner and the outer states ) in that it is a zone for cultural experience or creative playing .
15 Patterning facilities are versatile — the KH864 has a special feature for automatically knitting single motifs or blocks of pattern by using motif cams .
16 Greenberg 's name has a special glamour because of his successful advocacy of Abstract Expressionist artists against ‘ the dominance of the School of Paris ’ , as Barbara Reise wrote .
17 This revolution has a special relevance to the current British debate on the health of the nation .
18 Among the many groups of people who have benefited from the technique , musicians in particular have found it helpful — and it has a special relevance in pregnancy and childbirth .
19 ( This tale has a special popularity in the UK , where the vehicle in question is always a Mini , though versions have cropped up in Australia and the USA . )
20 The pistol shrimp has a special claw which is held open at the hinge by two discs bound by suction .
21 The dog has a special relationship with man and is described as his best friend .
22 Indeed the psychiatrist who first popularised the notion that hypnosis has a special relationship with truth , no less a figure than Sigmund Freud , later issued a retraction .
23 Furthermore , any interest group able to threaten in this way probably has a special relationship with a major political party , and is acknowledged as important in that sense .
24 Each place has a special story to tell and offers a new experience of history : from neolithic man to Roman invasion , from William the Conqueror to the Civil War , from the Restoration to Queen Victoria and beyond .
25 Birds also make a wonderful focus of ambition — everyone has a special bird he or she would one day love to see .
26 In the shorthand this would be written 2 H , but being so fundamental it has a special name and symbol of its own , d for the deuteron , the nucleus of the deuterium atom ( symbol D ) .
27 For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name .
28 That 's near as I can tell you about it now , it has a special name I know , but er , that 's it .
29 The hydro-electric system has a special problem in the summer .
30 The sturdy frame has a special protection to make it waterproof and the cushions are covered in a charming songbird design fabric .
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