Example sentences of "have [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 2 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 3 | Very much the unsung hero of Mercedes ' 190 range , the six-cylinder 2.6 has none of the cosmetic bravura that distinguishes the 2.5–16 from its lesser stablemates . |
| 4 | Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine . |
| 5 | It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’ |
| 6 | So , too , has anyone without the special pass needed to get through military cordons . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is too radical and imaginative a suggestion , but has anyone in the local government structure of Suffolk looked beyond their plans to build houses on Ipswich Airport and considered what a fine civil airport for the county either of the two unwanted RAF airfields might make ? |
| 8 | Erm , and I also understand that this is the first time you 've actually had someone from the private sector , er , whose been invited to er , address your A G M so , I 'd like to thank you for the privilege , and for also for the opportunity to speak on a subject which I personally er , find of of great interest . |
| 9 | Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more . |
| 10 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
| 11 | But I have n't had anything on the other piece and I want something on . |
| 12 | As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had . |
| 13 | Of course , such enlargements would have none of the glossy prettiness of the snaps in the guidebook . |
| 14 | ‘ They wo n't have regular fashion articles , but might have something on the political significance of hemlines . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps that 's because being a larger lady I prefer to have something on the large side rather than the small ! |
| 16 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 17 | They had nothing but the meagre income provided by supplementary benefit . |
| 18 | Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays . |
| 19 | South Africa had no-one of the athletic calibre of John Eales , Ian Jones or Michael Jones . |
| 20 | A thorough examination of all the available hearth tax returns on a county basis will enable him to identify which parishes had someone with the appropriate surname living there during the reign of Charles II . |
| 21 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
| 22 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
| 23 | The panels that ran along the walls were covered with large , functional looking controls that , thought the Doctor with distaste , had none of the elegant modernity of the TARDIS console . |
| 24 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |
| 25 | He was a short , precise man with a small moustache which reminded me a little of Hitler 's , but he had none of the German leader 's belligerence . |
| 26 | It had none of the institutional smell Alida had prepared herself for . |
| 27 | And , although the meeting of their lips had none of the searching hunger that they had shared before , there was something in the touch that reassured her . |
| 28 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 29 | It had none of the clinical efficiency of his mother 's , but it did remind him of his grandmother 's kitchen out on the farm , with its prosaic line of battered saucepans which shared a shelf with a large bowl for making bread and a hopeful looking collection of cake tins . |
| 30 | Claire Bloom , Chaplin 's girl protégé in Limelight ( 1952 ) , had none of the waif-like frailty of Paulette Goddard in City Lights ( 1931 ) but a look of cool composure and high caste . |