Example sentences of "a [noun] has [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Regulation 8(2) of these regulations a driver has the overall responsibility to proceed with due regard to the safety of other users of the road subject to the direction of any police constable etc . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The camera section of a camcorder has a photographic lens which forms an image of the subject on a sensing device . |
| 5 | Not wanting to say that it has an immaterial soul , they allow that a horse has a continued identity despite changes of matter . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | It is all very well to delay the onset of a retinopathy for a year or two , but to achieve this , is it justifiable that a diabetic has no social life and a poorer quality of life for 20 years ? |
| 8 | Unfortunately jumping to conclusions as a practice has a poor track record since , so frequently , they are proved to be inadequate or wrong . |
| 9 | ‘ If a department has an internal review it can get bogged down in internal considerations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A sector has a financial surplus if total receipts exceed total expenditure for a particular time period , and vice versa for a financial deficit . |
| 12 | His instincts told him that a child was more likely to keep something dark than an adult — a child has no tiresome misgivings about deceiving even his loved ones — but he was not sure that he dare trust his instincts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Here is one of the standard procedures that is used to test whether a child has an adult-like appreciation of false belief . |
| 16 | Suppose a machine has a known life of only one year and is expected to yield £450 at the end of that year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Where a junction has a mini roundabout , it will have a sign placed before the give way . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 2 Specific Failings The feeling that a teacher has no real interest in the people in his care need not derive only from indifference . |
| 23 | NOT since Samson lost his strength through a haircut has a short back and sides caused such hairy day for a leader . |
| 24 | If a body has a legal power to do X , it has authority to do it . |
| 25 | In such a case a coroner has a mandatory obligation to hold an inquest . |
| 26 | Thus , for instance , if a business has a particular customer with whom it will do a lot of business , it might be appropriate to negotiate special terms for all contracts between the business and that customer . |
| 27 | The triangle formed by nodes 1 , 2 and 3 is iterated until there is agreement between marketing and R&D that such a product has a high probability of being ( a ) feasible and ( b ) viable and that measurable objectives have been unambiguously recorded . |
| 28 | ‘ But sometimes a band has a magic balance between them and it 's so wonderful . |
| 29 | However , a husband has no other relationship that he is told to love as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her . |
| 30 | Obviously you get to know that a Gibson has a different tone from a Strat , and you 'd also know the kind of sound you wanted . |