Example sentences of "of [noun sg] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His large , gnarled hands had very gently stroked the soft flannel over the protesting muddle of arms and legs on his towelled lap , and when he held one leg by the ankle and it slipped from his grasp as the baby kicked , his sudden exclamation of horror had started a loud wail and reduced Carrie to a fit of laughter at her husband 's awkwardness . |
| 2 | For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around . |
| 3 | The Salvadorean Popular Church has placed particular emphasis on the need to promote women 's equality , both in terms of the traditional exclusion of women religious workers from certain liturgical responsibilities and in society in general : " Women of course have played a subordinate role within the Church but Mns Romero took up our cause . |
| 4 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 5 | The idea of the new international division of labour has excited a great deal of research interest ( for example , the volumes edited by Nash and Fernandez Kelly , 1983 ; Sanderson , 1985 and Caporaso , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 7 | However , this form of investment has proved a dangerous risk for clients . |
| 8 | The statement of light had become a depressing and , at times , boring mess of discontent . |
| 9 | This accident of geography has created a vast central bog . |
| 10 | After many years of gradual improvement in mortality rates generally , the emergence of AIDS has brought a dramatic reversal in certain specific groups . |
| 11 | For the manual working class the pattern of mobility has had a double-edged effect , on the one hand increasing the possibility of ‘ social advancement ’ ( although this remains slim for men who have passed their mid-20s ) , while on the other reducing the influx of people from other backgrounds . |
| 12 | Some folk theories of sport have achieved a myth-like status , and they are often seriously entertained and elaborated upon by those in sport . |
| 13 | But its the Kathmandu valley which lies in the shadow of the great mountgain cathedrals that the world of sport has brought a new challenge … |
| 14 | A wide grin of delight had become a permanent fixture on his face , and Paul smiled at him in return as he cantered back to check the ox carts . |
| 15 | The previous ( December 1987 ) issues of Vanguard had used a similar rhetoric . |
| 16 | In the meantime , the two county councils have deferred consideration of the proposals , and the Department of Transport has lodged a formal objection to the National Rivers Authority 's compulsory purchase order . |
| 17 | The Department of Transport has made a serious error , can we be assured that police authorities will receive financial compensation for the work that their forces are now havin have are going to have to carry out and there is a further matter which I have erm drawn to the attention of the Secretary of State for Transport in er correspondence , namely the need to establish a new and representative police authority for the British Transport Police . |
| 18 | In the eighteenth century , the category of Nature had acquired a specific importance , yet was also ambivalent . |
| 19 | The evidence for our palaeolithic ancestors having occupied this area is found in the eastern reaches of the Serengeti where the natural forces of erosion have cut a deep gash into the grasslands to expose the sun-baked deposits of Olduvai Gorge . |
| 20 | Meanwhile the politics of war had taken a new departure . |
| 21 | The discrediting of statism has left a massive vacuum at the heart of the Latin American left 's philosophy and the search for an alternative vision to the prevailing neoliberal orthodoxy is one of its most pressing tasks if it is serious about taking power through the ballot box with a radical programme . |
| 22 | The annual report of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution has predicted a sharp rise in the number of prosecutions made against polluters over the next year . |
| 23 | But it is certainly true that in the last sixty years the various schools and academies of acting have had a significant effect on the climate of acting . |
| 24 | Contracts for these types of credit had to include a certain amount of cost information , though not the amount of the finance charge , nor an interest rate . |
| 25 | The Cuban director of immigration had made a great deal of money from previous boatloads of Jews ; the President of Cuba had not made enough money from them . |
| 26 | As 60 per cent of the cassava grown in this area is marketed in towns , a yield increase even of this order of magnitude has had a positive impact on urban food supplies . |
| 27 | At present 342 schools have taken this course , but the Department of Education has reported a sevenfold increase in parental ballots since the equivalent period last year . |
| 28 | Among the most vociferous critics of the President 's move was Senator Edward M. Kennedy , who stated that " once again , the administration 's practice of government-by-veto has foisted a flawed and irresponsible policy on the nation " . |
| 29 | Seven of nine patients over 60 years of age have had a successful outcome . |
| 30 | Rousseau as a theorist of democracy has attracted a great deal of hostile commentary , in particular from writers who see " totalitarian " implications in Du Contrat Social , or even a blueprint for what has been termed " totalitarian democracy " . |