Example sentences of "that [noun] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some have argued that change has a cumulative effect .
2 The court heard that Yafano has a previous conviction as a juvenile for cruelty to cats which involved skinning and stringing them up .
3 In Committee , the Minister invariably points out that Parliament has a simple way of dealing with orders and that we should stick to it .
4 First , writers such as Badie and Birnbaum ( 1983 ) or Moore ( 1967 ) operating from a broad historical perspective suggest that states have a distinct character resulting from long-term processes of political development .
5 Thus it was argued that William had a legitimate title to the throne because he won it by right of conquest in a just war .
6 At Great Ormond Street hospital doctors tell the royal couple that William has a depressed fracture which needs an immediate operation .
7 It is worth noting once again that calls have an unlimited profit potential similar to that of the long share while that of the puts is limited to E — P ; i.e. the maximum is reached when the share price S has reached zero .
8 Additionally the right qualification ensures that employers have a good idea of an individual 's capabilities .
9 The Newton Personal Digital Assistants from Apple Computer Inc will be built around the Advanced RISC Computing Ltd ARM610 RISC : Apple says that the first version of Newton will be out early next year , and will be an electronic notepad , able to record and recognise handwriting and to straighten out rough sketches ; Cambridge-based Advanced RISC Machines , which is owned by Acorn Computers Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc says that Newton has an object-oriented executive and that the memory manager in the ARM610 provides specific support for object-oriented data handling .
10 It turns out , too , that Tod has a black chest with photographs of women in it .
11 But , as novelists are well aware , it is true , as I hope to show in the final chapter , that houses have an autonomous being of their own : ‘ I 've no control over the saucy things , ’ Margaret Schlegel complains in Howards End , ‘ Houses are alive . ’
12 And , in view of her theory that anorexics have a poor sense of their own size , weight and proportions in general , it may be interesting to examine more closely the status of the eldest child and more specifically the eldest daughter .
13 It can not have been only in relation to land that £40 had a special significance .
14 What sets up the causal link in this case is the fact that honey has a distinctive taste , which Pooh will recognise .
15 It is important to note in this context that courts have an inherent power to permit anyone to act as advocate , though this is seldom exercised except for the massive exception which at one time allowed police officers to act as prosecutors in the magistrates ' courts .
16 He suspects that Ivor has a secret collection of stolen coins .
17 They received the news silently , unwilling to concede that Woolley had a good reason for doing anything .
18 We have seen that confirmation has an important role to play in science as interpreted by the sophisticated falsificationist .
19 John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions .
20 In particular the HMI discuss the role of schools in a changing society , arguing , for example , that schools have a limited role in social change , and rejecting the ‘ curriculum for violent change ’ .
21 Furthermore , three other significant reports ( Hargreaves 1984 , Thomas 1985 and Mortimore 1988 ) continue to present evidence that schools have a significant influence on pupil behaviour .
22 You 've got to remember that David has a 20-year history of being a rock star , and he 's broken his word and come back from retirement about three times .
23 At Virgin , over and above establishing more centralised management functions ‘ my role was to ensure we were informal but not casual , to the extent that Richard had a limited number of objectives we were committed to spending money on , based on a view of ; the company and the things we had to do well ’ , he said .
24 This night , while it was not one of their magical occasions , neither had any real complaints but in their natural preoccupation they both forgot that Bobby had a dislocated knee !
25 After long and entertaining research ( that 's hours sitting watching the story unfold and telling everyone that this really was work ) I can divulge that Johnny has a long-distance girlfriend , fishes an awful lot , is taken water-skiing by sharks , enjoys parties on passing cruisers , is invaded by ancient midget pirates , and is a very clean living , regular bathing type of guy .
26 Rangers manager Walter Smith still believes that Marseilles have a slight edge as they have to face Rangers at home on April 7 but he said : ‘ I 'm still optimistic about what we can do in our home games . ’
27 It is personal and not explained solely by the fact that Lang has a marginal seat and the SNP is the main competitor .
28 This , however , proved to be wholly inappropriate for Wellcome 's needs , largely due to the fact that GIS had a big effect on the system response times and that the amount of report formatting which was required proved to be unmanageable for on-line GIS .
29 Furthermore , he argues that proper-nouns have a grammatical structure , and that the compositional rules for such compounds will have to be written into NLP systems .
30 Emily was astute enough to recognize that Hari had a singular talent , a fine touch for design that eluded most men .
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