Example sentences of "[noun] has [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Secondly , I know that this committee has over a time been concerned about the resource needs |
5 | The city has more Chartered Designers working within the city boundary than the rest of Scotland has as a whole . |
6 | This complication has as a result of a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure in humans and not been previously described . |
7 | The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | and then there be the third little bedroom in the middle which Pam has as a sewing room |
10 | 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 ’ . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
14 | Listen , Rober' , if there is anything we can do — I think we are now the nearest thing your friend Nader has to a family here in Paris . ’ |
15 | A muzzled ferret has on a number of occasions evicted a little owl . |
16 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
17 | In recent years the model 's exclusive focus on shareholder interests has to a degree been modified . |
18 | Their society has in a word been bowdlerised . |
19 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
20 | This leaves the US as the nearest thing the world has to a globocop , the only major power able to project its military forces on a global scale . |
21 | But without it the advantages that a system of graded tests has over a GCSE or A level system will be lost . |
22 | In such cases the district judge may , unless the application has at a party 's request been referred to the judge ( Ord 19 , r 2(5) ( b ) ) , on hearing the application ( usually at the pre-trial review ) refer the matter to a district judge for arbitration ( N 19 ) . |
23 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here . |
24 | Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce . |
25 | The interest which the RUC has as a police force derives entirely from the social context in which it operates , but this context is both a spur and a hindrance to research on the RUC . |
26 | The era of a techno-structure or of technocracy has as a corollary the decline of the powers of parliamentary democracy in the true sense ’ . |
27 | Following from these considerations , Chapters 2 and 3 both contain precedents for use in non-consumer transactions , prepared from the point of view of the supplier and the customer respectively , to show examples of the different approaches that each party has in a situation where he has the preponderance of bargaining power , and wishes to use it . |
28 | Originally published by Poetry Wales in 1982 , this updated edition of critical writings on R S Thomas not only explores the evolving approaches Thomas has to a variety of , by now , well- established themes , but also contains an extended bibliography of source material , invaluable to any student or reader of Thomas 's work . |