Example sentences of "[noun] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | Thirdly , the technique has a high contrast resolution which means that tumours are frequently shown with greater clarity than with computed tomography . |
| 3 | In this typical example of scientific doublespeak , the burden of proof is , as usual , thrown on to conservationists to show that a fishing technique has an unacceptable effect , rather than on the fishing nations to show that the method is ecologically sound . |
| 4 | For example , at an energy E , the orbit has a semi-major axis of length r B and a semi-minor axis of length r A . |
| 5 | The girl 's bike has the same specification as the boy 's but comes with mudguards and a carrier at the back . |
| 6 | This gracious and well-proportioned early 19th-century building has a varied past : it started out life as a rectory , became a farmhouse , and is now a comfortable country hotel . |
| 7 | To this day the building has a remarkable power in a modern city of concrete skyscrapers and oppressive traffic . |
| 8 | The building has a large narthex extending the whole width of the church with three saucer domes over it . |
| 9 | This impressive stone building has a commanding site on a hill above the surrounding plain . |
| 10 | THE LACE CENTRE , housed in a beautiful timber framed building has a wonderful selection of lace products on sale . |
| 11 | Here ITN has an inbuilt advantage . |
| 12 | Ostensibly agriculture has a fine record — between 1961 and 1973 labour productivity bounded along at over 7 per cent per annum , though overall growth of output at just under 3 per cent was less impressive [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 13 | Ahead of the Pentium processor launch on March 22 , Intel Corp has a Pentium-compatible chip set for its Peripheral Component Interconnect specification : the new set reportedly supports a 64-bit data path and speeds of up to 66MHz . |
| 14 | Ahead of the Pentium processor launch on March 22 , Intel Corp has a Pentium-compatible chip set for its Peripheral Component Interconnect specification : the new set reportedly supports a 64-bit data path and speeds of up to 66MHz . |
| 15 | Nippon Digital Equipment Corp has a Japanese version of software that turns personal computers into X-terminals . |
| 16 | The pistol shrimp has a special claw which is held open at the hinge by two discs bound by suction . |
| 17 | ICARDA 's multidisciplinary staff of over 60 senior scientists and 600 technical and support personnel has an international mandate for barley , faba bean and lentil production improvement and — with other centres — a joint regional mandate for wheat and chickpea production improvement . |
| 18 | Challenger has a good chance of hitting a Soviet tank with its first shell at a distance of more than 2000 m . |
| 19 | The text has a certain givenness ; it may be interpreted anew in each age . |
| 20 | The placement of verbs in initial position in the Portuguese text has a communicative function : it thematizes processes as the writer 's point of departure , an arrangement particularly suited to the reporting of academic research and scientific methods . |
| 21 | Although a written text has no phonological level of style as such , we can not ignore , in a treatment of levels of language , the phonological potentials of the written word . |
| 22 | The Mazda text has the same feel of awkwardness and lack of orientation about it as Halliday 's constructed example . |
| 23 | Two organisations have now managed to set up clearing facilities enabling them to dispense hard currency in Moscow : Credobank , a Moscow-based commercial bank , began offering cash advances to Visa card holders from early March and American Express has been offering a limited service to its card holders from its Moscow representative office ; Credobank has an on-line connection to a London clearing centre to check all cards — the connection was organised by Sprint Networks ; the bank also plans to offer cash service in some Moscow hotels . |
| 24 | British Rail has an ancient obligation to pay for its own police force . |
| 25 | Steel can be extracted magnetically from waste , but only one in 10 local authorities has the necessary equipment . |
| 26 | And the reason for this is that usually the male has a vast number of sex cells and consequently can afford to compete er for er female cells to fertilize . |
| 27 | The male has a different appearance from the female : the male 's belly is red , whereas that of the female is a glossy silver , distended ( if she is ready to lay ) with eggs . |
| 28 | Thus for him the male has a lesser role , simply preparing the matter contributed by the female , so that it is ready to accept the soul . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Further he comments that the male has the greater discretion of reason . |