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

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1 Glycine 15 has a positive angle in both conformations , as residue 2 of a type II' turn in the holorepressor , and residue 3 of a type II turn in the complex , allowing it to donate a hydrogen-bond to a phosphate oxygen in the latter .
2 Similarly , if score A has a positive Z score then we would expect variable B to have a variable Z score .
3 Naturally , the Hagen make the ‘ Muss es sein ? ’ phrase , to the questioning figure which Beethoven thereby put into the musical vernacular , severe and demanding ; so it is , but the answer has a positive affirmation which does not exclude merriment .
4 ‘ The technique still needs to be evaluated , but I think it has a positive feature because it has potentially fewer complications . ’
5 The keyboard is well laid out and has a positive feel , very much like my desktop PC .
6 The FASB plans , however , to retain the current practice of using the amortised cost method for debt securities that management has a positive intent to hold to maturity .
7 She has a positive knack of getting one to fetch and carry .
8 Whereas the ordinary person has a choice whether or not to act , the police officer , in view of his or her status , has a positive obligation to take action .
9 As such this theory may , m practical terms , have no quarrels with Hobson and McCarley 's hypothesis that REM or dreaming sleep has a positive function in the learning process .
10 Marital status has a positive effect , agreeing with the interpretations that either employers favour men who are married and/or that married men search harder .
11 Convertibility This is an attractive feature and has a positive effect on price .
12 Warrant attachments This is also an attractive feature and has a positive effect on price .
13 Employees and franchisees alike are now more highly committed , which has a positive effect on the entire operation .
14 The line labelled unc has a positive slope because all three of the variables unc depend directly on national income .
15 The aggregate supply curve traced out by these short-run deviations from the equilibrium real wage is and has a positive slope .
16 It shows someone in obvious mental distress and gives a strong message that the nurse has a positive job to do .
17 The motives for seeking office are partly that the life of a backbench MP soon becomes unsatisfactory and offers so little scope for achievement , for registering even the smallest impact on a restricted area of.public life , that the average MP looks with envy on any minister who has a positive job to perform , however limited the field .
18 Britain has a positive record on protecting its countryside .
19 And virtually everybody who joins the Options Agency has a positive outcome to more than one in some cases , er in so far as that agency is concerned .
20 Anything that helps to free our repressed selves — including pornography — has a positive value . ’
21 Hence , in the figure , portfolio P 1 has a positive value for and portfolio P 2 has a negative value for .
22 If q has a positive value , the system has gained energy .
23 If w has a positive value , the system has also gained energy .
24 has a positive value if , overall-that is , taking account of both q and w-the system has gained energy .
25 Since there is an increase in enthalpy , H has a positive value .
26 In contrast , the value of the option contract can not be negative since it is only exercised if it has a positive value .
27 Bristol , which hopes to grow to 10 or 12 people by year 's end and is looking for qualified X-Windows and Motif programmers , says it now has a positive cash flow .
28 Resonance is likely to occur if , at the end of the excitation interval , the rotor is in advance of the equilibrium position and has a positive velocity .
29 Political commentators suggest that the political migration of such prominent Republicans has a positive side .
30 I still think the culture has a positive potential , being one of the most powerful forms of youth culture and entertainment since punk and even since the Sixties .
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