Example sentences of "[noun] have [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 2 | There is no trust deed , no trustee and the saver 's claim upon the assets of the trust is only the very general claim that any shareholder has upon a company . |
| 3 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
| 4 | The Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys Longitudinal Study has for a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales in 1971 , brought together census information , with information about geographic movements noted in the National Health Service Central Register in 1971-74 . |
| 5 | … how much soever Arbitrary Power may be dislik 'd on a Throne , Not Milton himself wou 'd cry up Liberty to poor Female Slaves , or plead for the Lawfulness of Resisting a Private Tyranny . |
| 6 | Sarah Hare , the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Elizabeth Hare of Stow Bardolph , Norfolk , was very specific regarding the simplicity of her grave-clothes and coffin , making her wishes abundantly clear in her will of 1743 : ‘ … my coffin to be made of the best Elm lin 'd with a thinn lead with a flap of lead sawder 'd down over me , not to have a nail or any ornament that is not absolutely necessary , except a plate with my coat of arms and with this inscription : They that humble themselves shall be Exalted . ’ |
| 7 | Just the car to have on an island full of lots of narrow , high-hedged twisty roads and a 60-miles-per-hour speed limit . |
| 8 | In the absence of a university college it was the nearest the Gold Coast had to an institution of higher education . |
| 9 | A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill . |
| 10 | The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels . |
| 11 | Theories of foregrounding , both linguistic and cognitive ( see , for example , van Peer 1986 or Cook 1990 ) , can help focus the intuitions readers have about a text . |
| 12 | Who is going to buy a T-shirt with the words ‘ Athletico Whaddon ’ felt-tipped on to a piece of paper , and Blu-tac 'd over an Iron Maiden logo ? |
| 13 | Secondly , I know that this committee has over a time been concerned about the resource needs |
| 14 | The city has more Chartered Designers working within the city boundary than the rest of Scotland has as a whole . |
| 15 | Turakina had on a gown into which were woven gold and silver threads . |
| 16 | This complication has as a result of a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure in humans and not been previously described . |
| 17 | The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) . |
| 18 | He is fully aware that his income and , to some extent , his job security , are based on the lettings , The school 's popularity as a venue has as a result increased . |
| 19 | and then there be the third little bedroom in the middle which Pam has as a sewing room |
| 20 | When you 're concerned with purely accounting functions , and once you 've learned the program , it 's an absolute joy to have as a tool . |
| 21 | A report of June 16 noted that Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Moldova , Kazakhstan , Russia , Turkmenistan , and Uzbekistan had at a meeting in Minsk decided to introduce standardized customs tariffs and categorization of goods for foreign trade [ for customs agreement see p. 38874 ] . |
| 22 | This illustrates yet again the somewhat uneven pattern of evolution , since crocodiles have in a sense regressed by returning to the water . |
| 23 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
| 24 | Even when the carer is a relative , when dementia is the disease carers may feel as if the old person has in a sense already died and left them so that ‘ this is not the mother I used to know ’ . |
| 25 | As Davis has pointed out , the Supreme Court has in a number of decisions simply substituted judgment without reference to the reasonableness or rational basis test . |
| 26 | Indeed , where it has found that the statement of reasons fails to fulfil the requirements of Article 190 , the Court has in a number of cases annulled the measure in question . |
| 27 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
| 28 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |
| 29 | Nothing much could happen to her on a sunny September afternoon between here and the launderette , and Mrs Barakhda who ran it was a friend of hers , or the nearest Lili had to a friend . |
| 30 | All in all , he was the closest thing the OUP had to a DUP man . |