Example sentences of "[noun] has a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its story has a root in the puzzles of ancient texts . |
| 2 | Ratcliffe has a rival in former Plymouth Argyle manager David Kemp , who is also a strong candidate . |
| 3 | ‘ Mait has a plant in your base , you kn — ’ The Doctor 's jaws clenched shut to bite back a cry . |
| 4 | The clubs are level on points , but the Suffolk side has a game in hand . |
| 5 | Mr Toghill has a degree in English Literature , and his career has been in PR and marketing , and latterly in careers work and the promotion of membership for the AAT . |
| 6 | This would seem a benign effect of Thatcher 's bad potty training , except that Abse has a bee in his bonnet against gambling . |
| 7 | Parents and staff should n't be seen as an endless source of free labour as even voluntary labour has a cost in time and goodwill . |
| 8 | When she 's not playing war games , Marie has a job in the textile trade . |
| 9 | Then f has a root in C. It follows that f factorises completely into linear factors in C[x] so that if deg f = n then f has , including repeats , n roots in C. |
| 10 | Ritual has a place in domestic activity . |
| 11 | ‘ Lucy has a job in a million . |
| 12 | Selma has a son in Germany , but she has lost contact with him . |
| 13 | CONTROVERSY exists over whether aluminium has a role in the aetiology of Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 14 | In certain cases declarations and injunctions can also be sought under Order 53 ; and a claim for damages can be joined to an AJR if it arises out of a matter to which the AJR relates and provided the court is satisfied that the applicant has a case in private law for the award of damages . |
| 15 | ‘ We do not see that such undeserved humiliation has a place in the Institute 's Manifesto , ’ says Liverpool . |
| 16 | Utterly bloody Alejandro has a mistress in BA . |
| 17 | Although there is no mention of it on the map , I could swear that the tiny loch has a crannog in it . |
| 18 | The patient with sensory loss has a problem in that he can not feel heat , cold , pain and pressure . |
| 19 | The proposal has a parallel in a new clause tabled in Committee by the Hon. Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) proposing that bus interests should come under the Scottish Transport Users Consultative Committee , as rail and ferry interests do at present . |
| 20 | So , on a 4 x 4 , unless the vehicle has a differential in the gearbox to allow for the different rotations of the front and rear propshafts , the transmission will ‘ wind itself up ’ . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , depreciation has a place in capital maintenance . |
| 22 | The Royal Bank of Scotland has a record in this field to be proud of , being a founder member of Opportunity 2000 and also one of just 150 companies entitled to call themselves Investors in People . |
| 23 | Very often , an act has a clause in it saying that it will take effect only when an order is issued by the appropriate Secretary of State . |
| 24 | SPRING is in the air , and every bookmaker whose thoughts turn to Doncaster has a spring in his step . |
| 25 | Here ( as in the previous case ) A is the owner of whatever sum he has been left ( a legacy , for instance , of ten thousand denarii ) , but B has a claim in trust against A : he can sue A for performance . |
| 26 | A more complicated kind of difference is where , without affecting the overall set of phonemes and contrasts , a phoneme has a distribution in one accent that is different from the ‘ same ’ phoneme 's distribution in another accent . |
| 27 | Tod has a brother in Gartree Maximum Security , and another drowned in the Thames . |
| 28 | Or the girl with the nail polish and cuticle remover on the five-items-only check-out at Tesco 's , or the doctor 's waiting-room at 9.35 am when the surgery says SHUT and your child has a conker in his works . |
| 29 | you see the Arts Council has a finger in most pies , the only way to find out through them , I mean the trouble is , a lot of it , is going to be confidential |
| 30 | The group the old pullover has a structure in which the can be replaced by , for example , an , my , Joe 's , this , but not by Joe , Monday or want which would produce a non-English group , eg *Monday old pullover . |