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

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1 Compared with traditional approaches the technique has the advantage that it is both strictly objective , being based on rigorous statistical analysis , and has a readily interpretable measurement scale .
2 It will be seen that this technique has the effect of interchanging the rankings of the best and worst cases in Table 4.4 , emphasizing the importance of sticking to one method of analysis .
3 It will be seen that this technique has the effect of interchanging the rankings of the best and worst cases in Table 4.4 , emphasizing the importance of sticking to one method of analysis .
4 That this technique has the effect of mirroring the minds of the people is confirmed by the contrasts between two passages which describe Lok and Tuami when they are exhausted .
5 This technique has the effect of helping the doctor-salesperson relationship to develop and continue .
6 Coloured dark green with tinted glass , the building has the air of downtown Chicago — a final , if possibly accidental , tribute to Alexander Kirkland .
7 A saw cut in the end of each 1½ × ¾in ash runner has the effect of reducing the thickness of each piece to be bent , in effect allowing a laminated curve attached to a solid straight runner .
8 Microsoft Corp has the edge and the key Unix players continue to overestimate the power of their own strategies , which continue to lack the homogeneity that the market wants .
9 Ernir has the contract to deliver the post and fly planes out every morning .
10 Since the rail network has plenty of spare capacity and is environmentally more benign , the logical solution is either to subsidise rail fares , which the present government is obviously unwilling to do , or to increase the cost of motoring to the point where rail has the advantage ( and since rail is sometimes less convenient , it needs the edge on price ) .
11 British Rail has the risk : points frozen during a cold snap .
12 ‘ For its devotees communism has the value of a religion , insofar as it is felt to provide a complete explanation of reality and of man as part of reality , and at the same time to give to life , as religion does , a sense of purpose . ’
13 Once the male has the female under his nest , he will embrace her forming a ‘ U ’ around her body .
14 This is difficult for people brought up in the Protestant tradition to accept , perhaps , because Protestantism has always insisted that every single Christian has the ability to become a great spiritual athlete .
15 The morphological and syntactic characteristics of the infinitive ( no personal endings , no subject ) lead one to conclude that this support has the form of a generalized person which does not vary in rank but which encompasses all possible ordinal persons .
16 The mainstream critics ' thankless task ( their privilege ) is only completed when every last cultural product is herded into this universal corral of taste where , to quote Bourdieu once more , ‘ the most classifying privilege has the privilege of appearing to be the most natural one ’ .
17 To include any such anticipatory provision has the merit of bringing home to the individual partners the importance of viewing their involvement in the firm as a long term commitment , which may serve to reduce , if not to eliminate , the pain felt if and when a cash call has to be made .
18 You may feel that insisting on using a condom has the implication that you or your partner may have HIV .
19 The person who makes the decision has the power to carry it through .
20 In the event that there are circumstances that members or creditors of the company should know about , the auditor has the power to require the directors to call an extraordinary general meeting to discuss the resignation circumstances .
21 For the sufferer from addictive disease it would not reduce cravings for addictive drugs and therefore the sufferer has the choice of continued cravings with Naltrexone or continued use of addictive drugs without it .
22 Control Theory holds that the sufferer has the choice of " pictures " of perception in his or her mind giving images of how life " should " be .
23 Absolutely perfect adherence to the 12 Steps is unobtainable but each and every sufferer has the capacity to make progress from whatever his or her starting position may have been and this is all that is required .
24 A taxi driver has the solution : " They should treat pirates and dogs on the course the same way , " he tells me .
25 The secured creditor has the right to call upon the trustee to elect whether or not to exercise his power to redeem , and the trustee then has six months in which to exercise the power or decide not to exercise it ( r6.117(4) ) .
26 The White Park has the potential to be a most promising beef breed if numbers can be built up .
27 If a proposed change has the support of the local parties , it is usual for the commissioners to accept it .
28 Unless the promoter of change has the power to reward the new form of behaviour and/or penalize persistence with the old form of behaviour , schemas are unlikely to change whatever managerial symbols and signals circulate around the organization .
29 The lucky winner has the privilege of sending their leader the first congratulatory telegram , announcing the success of the latest project .
30 On the day of the shoot , competitors start by shooting at butts ( targets ) and the winner has the privilege , later in the day , of shooting first at the papingo .
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