Example sentences of "a [noun sg] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations . |
| 2 | But how can a sentence have a causal role in relation to other sentences if the second sentence 's causal role is defined in terms of its relation to the first sentence ? |
| 3 | You see a university has a wide spread of expertise and facilities , which is well beyond the finance of a small company , and even sometimes a larger company , especially when the expertise or facility required is out of the ordinary . |
| 4 | The first question posed in the Conforama case was whether provisions prohibiting the employment of workers on Sundays constituted a measure having an equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions within the meaning of article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 5 | It was designed for use with a computer having a spare ROM ( or RAM ) location and for which read/write control is performed by a single line producing a write pulse . |
| 6 | If a field has a wooden hut where teams change into their kit you will certainly find plenty of lost coins around it ; money drops from pockets when players carry their clothes carelessly in and out of the hut . |
| 7 | The camera section of a camcorder has a photographic lens which forms an image of the subject on a sensing device . |
| 8 | Not wanting to say that it has an immaterial soul , they allow that a horse has a continued identity despite changes of matter . |
| 9 | What is the ‘ essence ’ or ‘ nature ’ of a horse , and why does it follow from this that a horse has a certain type of head or feet , or lives to the age it does ? |
| 10 | Unfortunately jumping to conclusions as a practice has a poor track record since , so frequently , they are proved to be inadequate or wrong . |
| 11 | ‘ If a department has an internal review it can get bogged down in internal considerations . |
| 12 | Since a condition has a logical priority with respect to what it allows , there is a before/after relation between what know predicates and what the infinitive does , which calls for the use of to . |
| 13 | This was not an offence under the Act because it does not extend to the domestic situation and a club having a private membership enjoys a private or domestic status . |
| 14 | Unlike sharks , bony fish as a rule have a marked tendency to be flattened in a vertical direction . |
| 15 | Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes . |
| 16 | In this context Mr. Beloff relied on the decision of the House of Lords in In re An Inquiry under the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 [ 1988 ] A.C. 660 where the question arose whether a journalist had a reasonable excuse under section 178 of the Financial Services Act 1986 to refuse to answer questions put to him by inspectors , having regard to the terms of section 10 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 which provides : |
| 17 | A sector has a financial surplus if total receipts exceed total expenditure for a particular time period , and vice versa for a financial deficit . |
| 18 | A WOMAN and a child had a narrow escape yesterday when their car left the road . |
| 19 | If a child has a low expectation of passing an arithmetic test , yet is successful , the value of the reinforcement occasioned by the triumph may be great . |
| 20 | Old Man with a Child has a little girl facing a seated old man who holds her hands , and in Old Man Holding an Infant the tiny baby is being cradled by a bald old man with bushy white side-whiskers . |
| 21 | Here is one of the standard procedures that is used to test whether a child has an adult-like appreciation of false belief . |
| 22 | Suppose a machine has a known life of only one year and is expected to yield £450 at the end of that year . |
| 23 | The quality of the staff , from matrons to cooks , is probably the biggest single factor determining whether a home has a happy atmosphere , and good staff are hard to get for the demanding , albeit rewarding , job of residential care . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's important for a girl to have a proper career , ’ said Brian . |
| 25 | Now it is assumed all in a household have an equal share of the total income . |
| 26 | Basically what we 're doing is to count during training how often a sub-pattern a tuple has a particular state has a particular pattern . |
| 27 | For example , if a file has an individual record hit rate of 1 per cent and the hits are randomly distributed , the results of varying the blocking factor are as shown in Table 7.6 . |
| 28 | Where a junction has a mini roundabout , it will have a sign placed before the give way . |
| 29 | The fact that a teacher has a secondary education and a framed certificate tells us a little about his potential , but practically nothing about his actual value in the classroom situation . |
| 30 | NOT since Samson lost his strength through a haircut has a short back and sides caused such hairy day for a leader . |