Example sentences of "[noun] have an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Here ITN has an inbuilt advantage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Strictly nocturnal predators like the eagle owls can entirely miss a common rodent species if that species is diurnal , and in these cases the prey assemblage has an unbalanced species composition compared with the small mammal community actually present . |
| 6 | British Rail has an ancient obligation to pay for its own police force . |
| 7 | The male has an extra pair of legs at his front end , called ovigerous legs . |
| 8 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 9 | This story has an added interest . |
| 10 | The new AB TGI for 1991 has revealed that the Sunday Express has an outstanding level of coverage of AB Adults with sizeable amounts of savings and investments . |
| 11 | 2911 built in 1920 was No 45000 , a saloon for Railway Officers , and originally the Chairman 's saloon , an LNWR body fitted to a MKI underframe and mounted on B4 bogies in 1967 ; this saloon has an all-wood body . |
| 12 | Each input-output processor has an extra 4Mb of memory that is accessible from the VMEbus and node . |
| 13 | The Newton Personal Digital Assistants from Apple Computer Inc will be built around the Advanced RISC Computing Ltd ARM610 RISC : Apple says that the first version of Newton will be out early next year , and will be an electronic notepad , able to record and recognise handwriting and to straighten out rough sketches ; Cambridge-based Advanced RISC Machines , which is owned by Acorn Computers Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc says that Newton has an object-oriented executive and that the memory manager in the ARM610 provides specific support for object-oriented data handling . |
| 14 | The length of syllables has an important part to play in prominence . |
| 15 | The Prince has an interesting confusion in his character . |
| 16 | Mosca , like Pareto , is concerned to demolish democratic illusions about the altruism of the elite , but he recognises a positive dynamic relationship between rulers and ruled , and implies that the elite has an ideological function in that it expresses in a coherent rationalising way the moral unity of society through the rule of law . |
| 17 | The Hercules has an excellent safety record throughout its twenty-six years in service with the RAF . |
| 18 | The second chest has an identical trap , save that this time the poison in the darts is Elfbane , and it has a second trap which will be activated only if the chest is forcibly opened . |
| 19 | Division has an associate company in the US , Division Inc , and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd acts as its distributor in the Far East . |
| 20 | The rivalry between these three clubs has an unusual history . |
| 21 | This finding has an anatomical correlate : the dendritic fields of cells in the octopus optic lobe tend to be elliptical with their major axis oriented predominantly horizontally or vertically . |
| 22 | The pouch has an adjustable shoulder strap which unclips to double as a waistbelt . |
| 23 | Whilst welcoming the recommendation that the defence has an enforceable right of access to forensic material held by the prosecution , the Law Society is concerned and surprised that it is not proposed that this will extend to unused material generally . |
| 24 | Swimming : The resort has an open-air pool and an indoor one , plus sauna , solarium and massage facilities . |
| 25 | Although the map has very possibly been at Hereford since the later middle ages , and certainly since 1682 , Hereford has an inconspicuous place on it and then in the abbreviated form H'ford . |
| 26 | The bore has an evil reputation , whether deserved or not , and perhaps because of its lonely location the emotive nature of a one-and-a-half-mile hole through a hill . |
| 27 | I mean , the one is just , so it may not be any great compliment to say that the cow has an equal chance erm but , but I , I actually do n't know the answer to that one , whether thought that |
| 28 | Capcom has an exclusive distribution agreement for Archer 's QSound chip for the video arcade industry . |
| 29 | Clearly the truncheon has an enduring quality and is more than just a one hit wonder . |
| 30 | Now that the PC has an affordable animation package there 's no reason why you could n't be the next Walt Disney . |