Example sentences of "the [noun prp] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Area fisheries officer Vaughan Lewis said : ‘ The Wye has a healthy trout population but silting up of the river bed can be a problem . |
| 2 | Whereas the Highlands have a low population density , and a short growing season , southern Italy has a relatively high population density ( despite a century of outmigration ) relative to available cultivatable land . |
| 3 | No doubt the Alderney and the Guernsey had a shared ancestry : both islands were colonised by Normandy monks in the eleventh century . |
| 4 | The Corrado also has a multi-function computer , while the Calibra has a no-cost option of metallic paint . |
| 5 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 6 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 7 | The RSJC has a dual function . |
| 8 | There were men half-hidden by piled-up mountains of coloured balloons at some of the street corners , a relic , Ward said , of the magnificent feathered headdresses of the Aztecs , and with the stillness of evening the dust haze had gone , so that the huge square of the Zócalo had a brooding sense of peace , the cathedral 's twin towers still touched with the sunset 's warmth and the great mass of it dominating the presidential palace . |
| 9 | The PFA have a good case . |
| 10 | Wendy the Rolls has a happy cruising speed of around 50 and at her age , she might be expected to take life easy . |
| 11 | That assurance , derived from the conviction that the WEA had a major role to play in society and that the Eastern District was successful in fulfilling it , was apparent in the paper , ‘ A Consideration of Aims and Purposes ’ , written by former treasurer Edward Miller in 1956 . |
| 12 | Firstly , because the PRS has a carved top , the gap from the underside of the bridgeplate to the table may need to be set a fraction more than ″ , depending upon the amount of ‘ pull up ’ required on the tremolo . |
| 13 | My speech to the party conference on the Saturday had a good reception , but those who favour ‘ democracy by decibels ’ noted a victory for Home on points … |
| 14 | The oriel windows , particularly in the Rathausplatz have a delicate beauty and a rich variety of expression that somehow blends into a happy harmony . |
| 15 | The Tolstoys have a comfortable home with extensive gardens , a swimming pool and tennis court . |
| 16 | ‘ The Yamaha has a great sound , in either passive or active modes , and there are really no more controls than are necessary to change tones , so it 's fairly user-friendly . |
| 17 | From their first-floor sitting room the Lloyds have a new perspective on the garden , the pool and the top of their pergola ! |
| 18 | THE Javanese have a legendary fruit called the simalakama . |
| 19 | The mouth of the Loire has a submerged delta of this type , the two distributary channels being near the land on either side and separated by a mass of sediment some of which is exposed at low tide as banks in mid-estuary . |
| 20 | By Edward I 's reign ( 1272–1307 ) the continental possessions of his house had shrunk to a fraction of their former vast extent — by 1290 they consisted solely of the duchy of Aquitaine and comté of Ponthieu — but the notion that the Plantagenets had a continental role to play remained firmly embedded in their minds and in those of their subjects on both sides of the Channel . |
| 21 | The North has a positive disproportion of higher education institutions , and so the intellectual power of centres of research . |
| 22 | In 1986–87 the CEGB had a complex structure of energy charges , ranging from 1.4 pence per kilowatt hour ( p/kWh ) for use at night during weekends to 3.8 p/kWh for use at breakfast time on a weekday . |
| 23 | Within a few weeks of the outbreak of war , the Luftwaffe had a new name for the east coast of Scotland where the skies were patrolled by the young men of the City of Glasgow Squadron , and its leaders , Wing Commander Farquhar , Group Captain the Duke of Hamilton , and Squadron Leader Johnstone . |
| 24 | THE SUGARCUBES have a 13-track compilation of remixes issued through One Little Indian this week . |
| 25 | The Atlantic has a cooling effect on Champagne 's summers and makes the seasons generally more variable . |
| 26 | The Danube has a different name in every country through which it flows : in Germany it is the Donau , in Slovakia , Dunaj , when it reaches Budapest it becomes the Duna , at Belgrade it is the Dunav and in Romania it is the Dunarea . |
| 27 | The DSS has a statutory duty to pay benefits of a given level approved by Parliament regardless of the level of sickness or unemployment that may arise in any one year . |
| 28 | Collectively known as ‘ Power Kites ’ , the Flexifoils have a wide repertoire , from individual and team ballet performances to sprint flying through a speed trap , man-lifting power-kiting , beach skiing , buggy towing , cable riding and establishing a world sailing speed record of 25.03 knots ( 46km/h or 29mph ) with fifteen Super-10s towing a catamaran . |
| 29 | Although the RNLI has a unique appeal , the methods of attracting support are in many ways no different to those used by all the other major charities in the country . |
| 30 | The camera operators in the Commons have a serious problem . |