Example sentences of "they have [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
2 | Any hopes they had of a successful Cup run to take the heat off their internal worries disappeared in the mud at Underhill . |
3 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |
4 | These J Wave scientists are investigating Britain 's club culture at close hand , and Norman Cook is the nearest thing they have to a perfect specimen . |
5 | The play tells several stories , such as young love , but most of all it tells of the magnificent Madame MacAdam and her troupe and of the comic and tragic effects they have upon an isolated community . |
6 | Moreover , Stevenson 's theory , and the attitudinism sketched above , are at their most convincing in their treatment of value charged descriptive words , among which indeed even such words as ‘ good ’ can be counted when we are concerned with the meaning that they have in a homogeneous society . |