Example sentences of "[pers pn] has a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 2 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 3 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 4 | If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other . |
| 5 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 6 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 7 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 8 | One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings . |
| 9 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 10 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 11 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 12 | Even if only one of you has a paid job , the death of the other would almost certainly deal a severe financial blow to the household . |
| 13 | ‘ She has a successful business in London . |
| 14 | However , he soon discovers that she has a voracious sexual appetite , which he finds almost impossible to satisfy . |
| 15 | Her skin is blue-black , she has a long red tongue , and snakes twine about her body . |
| 16 | She has a long coachroof of medium height and a short-ended hull on which no attempt has been made to distort the lines . |
| 17 | The second must be that he or she has a long life . |
| 18 | She has a long association with the scouting movement and is president of the East Middlesbrough scout executive . |
| 19 | If she has a male boss who has tantrums that would be more appropriate in a three-year-old , a boss who shouts at and bullies her , in the institutional world of male values , she will lose all respect if she cries . |
| 20 | She has a deep regard for him and a feeling that here is a poet , a man that nobody understands . |
| 21 | She has a terrific sense of humour . |
| 22 | Her manager Jerry Schiller said : ‘ She has a terrific voice and can write . ’ |
| 23 | But she has a sticking point , even with him : I 've seen him back down , many times . ’ |
| 24 | Usually my mother was just like a sister to me but she has a strange fascination with the Queen . |
| 25 | She has a spacious interior with full headroom throughout , room for ancillary cruising equipment and ample stowage space , while her deep bilges allow generous fuel and water tankage for long distance cruising . |
| 26 | ‘ But if she has a scarred uterus , with strong contractions and a large baby , the weak point might give way . ’ |
| 27 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |
| 28 | Ever since , she has always felt that she has a tenuous grip upon life . |
| 29 | I believe she has a firm alibi for the whole of yesterday evening , but as she 's a senior scientist she ( bas asked to stay . |
| 30 | But the tendency in households for business decisions to be left to the husband and for the wife , whether or not she is a joint owner of the matrimonial home and whether or not she has a separate job , to have the main domestic responsibilities still persists . |