Example sentences of "to have a special [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in a third sense , literature is thought by many structuralists to have a special relationship to language , in that it involves a unique awareness of the nature of language itself . |
| 2 | I used to have a special gimmick — when I used to do my clog dance , I used to shout to the audience , ‘ Throw pennies , ’ and that 's what they used to do . |
| 3 | Vidor was always to have a special affection for this film but later film historians have had many reservations . |
| 4 | In the Pastoral Epistles the noun presbyters often appears in the plural , bishop in the singular , suggesting that one man was beginning to have a special position in both worship and charitable administration . |
| 5 | So if we want to find out , and twenty five over a hundred , we 've got the s , it 's a special fraction , and it used to have a special name for it , and we call these percentages , twenty five per hundred , twenty five hundredths , we just say twenty five per cent . |
| 6 | Japan seems to have a special advantage in robotics today because so many firms there are both large users and makers of robots . |
| 7 | I used to have a special dread of Friday afternoons . |
| 8 | DARLINGTON Health Authority yesterday pledged to have a special unit for leukaemia patients open and fully staffed by August . |
| 9 | right , oh you 've got to have a special sub base speaker then ? |
| 10 | The estimated cost was £100 and it was decided to have a special gift day the following December . |
| 11 | A special reception area is being created in Scarborough Town Hall , and the borough council is to have a special logo and marketing slogan designed . |
| 12 | You think about it , it 's never , I mean we had to have a special fire door put on cos our we go through to our garage . |
| 13 | Mummy has bought daddy some nice chocolates to eat and we 're going to have a special dinner and then next Saturday Nanna Nanna and Del are coming down to look after you |
| 14 | You used to have a special chopper for your mangles and it was like a big mincing machine , with a great big wheel on , and you used to fill it full of er mangles , or turnips and it used to come out like chips . |
| 15 | The leader appears to have a special aura , or power ( mana ) , around him which is compared to the power of the hypnotist over the subject , or the power of the analyst in the transference situation in analysis . |
| 16 | This is not only to their credit , but to the credit also of the staff of the choir schools , whose dedication ensures that such schools will surely continue to have a special place in our educational system . |
| 17 | And having l your mother and father left er , your parents had left you with such low money in the early stages you could n't In any case you could n't My friend was a nurse , but you 'd got to have a special background . |
| 18 | Both Joe and his former pupil Steve Vai seem to have a special fondness for one in particular : the Lydian . |
| 19 | If you have to have a special diet for health reasons , and find you can not afford the price , make sure you are claiming the supplementary benefits to which you are entitled . |
| 20 | It seems also to have a special magnetism for their children , who look forward to spending all day playing video games until it 's time to try and get served by a barman who does n't notice they are 15 and only four feet ten . |
| 21 | Sarah seemed to have a special liking for angry gestures , even when she had provoked them herself . |
| 22 | Moreover there were certain branches of the governmental machine and certain aspects of policy on which the king was considered to have a special right to make his views heard . |
| 23 | Finally , there is the question of mother-daughter relationships , which are said to have a special quality and status which has ramifications across the whole of family life . |
| 24 | In the wake of the impressive list of meetings that the Secretary of State will be attending for the remainder of this year , will he encourage the Security Council to have a special meeting , after Britain 's anticipated endorsement of the Van den Stoel resolution on the destruction of human rights within Iraq at least to ensure that human rights monitors are in south Iraq to protect the unfortunate Shias ? |
| 25 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 26 | Frank Hepburn , assistant to the director , said : ‘ Because of the sense of bereavement at this unprecedented loss , it was decided to have a special programme of memorial events which would act as a focus for remembering them and help raise funds for charities with which they were associated . |
| 27 | No you do n't have to , there 's no , there 's no rea there 's no , there 's no thing that makes someone but it , it if you 're pissed off it does n't , you do n't have to have a special reason to be pissed off you can just be pissed off like you can just be annoyed , it 's like saying you 're annoyed when someone nicks your towels . |
| 28 | We were going to have a special meal … . |