Example sentences of "[noun] has [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays they may be esteemed by their peers who know something of their work , but this esteem has little currency value in the committee-rooms where performance is appraised . |
| 2 | With deposits of limited size variations the technique has some success but better discrimination is achieved where there are large size differences . |
| 3 | Although Kant has little respect for most previous moral philosophies , he has immense respect for the untutored moral insight ( if not practice ) of the ordinary man . |
| 4 | Nobody else in this dive has any money , and for them it will he a long cold evening . |
| 5 | As the harem matures , however , the females show a close collaboration that can oppose a male effectively ; they determine the direction of movement and the male has little control . |
| 6 | Some say that the Avize Chardonnay has more finesse , but I find that while Avize may have more clarity of flavour , Cramant and , for that matter , le Mesnil-sur-Oger have finer qualities of bouquet . |
| 7 | This not only creates body but also takes a lot of the hard work out of blow-drying as styling very wet hair has little effect . |
| 8 | But Bob Brooks has another suggestion for parents . |
| 9 | This provision has most application in the area of whole agreement ( or entire agreement ) clauses which limit the bounds of the relationship of the parties to the particular contract in question . |
| 10 | Only in Champagne has this grape proved so successful . |
| 11 | ‘ Bradford Northern 's Deryck Fox is another scrum-half I admire , but Goulding has more sting in his play . |
| 12 | Mr Rocard has more reason than most to feel sad . |
| 13 | Judges ruled that the ban on the National Salvation Front was unconstitutional but the decision has little effect as Mr Yeltsin last month cancelled the ban , imposed in December , in a decree . |
| 14 | Part of the campaign against any form of discrimination has this problem : part of the success of any such campaign carries with it , by the yardstick of some , disbenefits . |
| 15 | If trifling Hope has any room to plead , |
| 16 | Kingsley has some sympathy with Lord Vieuxbois , his representative of Disraeli 's group , the Young Englanders , but he also has sympathy with Lord Minchampstead , whose views resemble those of Mrs Gaskell 's industrialist , Robert Thornton , in North and South ( 1855 ) . |
| 17 | In Barteria nigritana ( Passifloraceae ) in Africa , one coastal subspecies is inhabited by one species of ant ; however , the more widespread other subspecies has another ant species , but again not all specimens are infected . |
| 18 | And , like Amy , Chelsea has little time for affairs of state . |
| 19 | Hence , the high-performing division has more power and autonomy than the less-performing division because ( at this stage ) it is contributing more to the firm 's goals . |
| 20 | FAXgrabber has another use which will be welcomed by all who use their PCs as fax machines — it should save an enormous amount of hard disk space . |
| 21 | Before this defence has any role to play it must be shown that the defendant has committed a tort . |
| 22 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
| 23 | Andy Macdonald has more going for him than merely the fact that he stands 6ft 8in . |
| 24 | No-one above the pathological level has any trouble with literal language — defined in psychological terms as language with immediate sensory feedback . |
| 25 | Mr Berisha has more trouble with the party 's increasingly vocal nationalist faction . |
| 26 | On the other hand , the marriage does not itself have support from wider society : ‘ There is less pressure for a couple to stay together because their break-up has little impact outside the domestic sphere and causes fewer ripples than it would in a society where kinship is more central to the wider social organization ’ ( Allan , 1985 , p. 104 ) . |
| 27 | Parliament has less influence over such matters as it has either to depend on the Commission to incorporate its views into an amended proposal or to reject the Council 's common position on legislation by an absolute majority ( currently 260 votes from its 518 members ) . |
| 28 | I know also that some Conservatives that feel that perhaps what I 've laid before you this afternoon has some credence . |
| 29 | Of course the masker is only useful when the user has some hearing . |
| 30 | The new computer has some state of the art fibre optic channels as well as the conventional copper ones but these will not initially be used and will come into play as new device types are acquired in the future . |