Example sentences of "[noun sg] have the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In modern biology sex is defined purely in terms of the size of the sex cell and the convention is that the male has the small mobile sex cell and the female has the large relatively immobile sex cell and , with very few exceptions , this is found everywhere , throughout sexual animals , plants and fungi .
2 The Express has the original headline : ‘ Knives out in war of succession ’ .
3 The absence of such provision has the real result , among others , of a huge deficiency of qualified engineers , designers , technologists and technicians , with extremely damaging consequences for Britain manufacturing and production — and so for the country 's economic prosperity .
4 While it is hard-wearing and safe , rubber-covered cable has the additional benefits of being very flexible and resistant to kinking in use .
5 What progress has the human family made in the last two decades towards fulfilling the basic needs of its poorest members ?
6 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 .
7 The division has the important task of defeating any enemy breakthrough into the British Corps area and is equipped with the Army 's latest equipment , including the Warrior Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle .
8 But second key-noter Dr Arno Penzias , vice president of Research at AT&T 's Bell Labs , who besides being a Nobel prize winner has the additional claim to fame of being the boss of Unix creators Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie , disagreed .
9 Adding in more tone from the guitar has the desired effect , but the Ovation 's EQ is very sensitive and there 's a fine line between improving or overdoing it .
10 This learning algorithm has the following pleasant property :
11 In the case of a breach of condition the buyer has the additional right to reject the goods and recover the price .
12 Even if this had been so — and Reagan worrying about Iran 's industrial base has the true ring of fantasy — the bartering was not to be turned so easily away from war , on either side .
13 Each such column may either take the values ‘ Y ’ ( the user has the given privilege ) or ‘ . ’
14 The emergence of these rules out of a common law which denies their existence has the added consequence , attractive to those who make them , that they are not subject to parliamentary or to adequate judicial control .
15 If Mainsborne runs into trouble , the South Eastern Electricity Board has the alternative CALMS ( Credit and Load Management System ) .
16 Made from the latest in Polymer technology Asics Gel has the unique ability to absorb vertical impact forces and disperse them on a horizontal plane .
17 One final touch ; every single brick has the personal mark of the craftsman who created it .
18 That means you can open up your PC and slot the card in without doing anything ( the jumper has the sole purpose of allowing interrupt 2/9 to be used , which , currently is unlikely to need changing from the default ) Thankfully , the ring-bound manual supplied with the card is extremely thorough , and covers every likely eventuality .
19 In no case has the legal principle been sacrificed to a thoughtful new policy on criminal justice .
20 The traditional line-item budget has the following defects : ( a ) The budget is subdivided on the basis of department or activity centres , each of which may operate several programmes either individually or as joint ventures .
21 In many countries , a criminal trial has the following stages : indictment , prosecution case , defence case , summing up , verdict , sentence .
22 The front bezel has the usual illuminated indicators showing Power On , Hard Disk Access and Turbo Speed .
23 In each case , positive feedback has the opposite tendency but important behaviour of a very different nature arises if becomes -1 .
24 The Inland Revenue has the necessary information on its computers , because it has everyone 's postal code .
25 Nobody in this business is infallible , but if something does go wrong , the customer must know that the contractor has the technical resources and financial muscle to put it right ; just as that contractor needs to have the resources and skilled manpower to tackle any infestation , and be neither too big to care nor too small to cope .
26 ( d ) The contractor has the possible opportunity to tender , with the approval of the architect , for work which is subject to a prime cost sum , provided the contractor directly carries out such work in the ordinary course of his business .
27 Such bacterial digestion has the added advantage of reducing the Biological Oxygen Demand ( BOD ) of the slurry residues , and limiting the pollution of water courses .
28 The use of the plastic ring device termed an Intrastromal Corneal Ring has the added advantage of being reversible if the surgery does not improve the sight condition .
29 Undoubtedly regulation of industry has the potential power to improve social welfare and to say we should abandon it because it may not always do so is nihilistic .
30 Although his owner , Charles St George , obviously feels his colt has the necessary speed for Newmarket , he and trainer Henry Cecil will no doubt be hoping for a strong pace on 21 October .
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