Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Yankees went on to assemble an unequalled record of 22 World Series victories ; generations of Sox fans have not a single one to cherish . |
| 2 | A Commission survey has shown that walkers have only a one-in-3 chance of being able to complete any 2 mile walk . |
| 3 | But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid she has a most irreverent attitude — and some of our gentlemen have quite a wide circle of acquaintances , so of course we must be able to offer complete discretion … ’ |
| 5 | Good monoskis have quite a different sidecut to normal skis — the narrowest point is the very back , and not the waist . |
| 6 | Real travellers will have discovered that most taxi drivers have only a cursory grasp of English so it may come as a surprise to learn that foreign cabbies ‘ drive at breakneck speed ’ while talking eloquently of ‘ local proverbs and giving handy hints about what to buy in the local market . ’ |
| 7 | Unfortunately it may not be this World Cup , for the Scots have just a minuscule chance of qualifying . |
| 8 | Although Serb lines are within range of Bosnian artillery on nearby Igman mountain , the Bosnians have only a few tanks and not much ammunition . |
| 9 | Occasionally some specimens do not have such a dense covering of spinelets and the interradial areas have only a few scattered spinelets with a greater number on the radial shields . |
| 10 | That emotions have both a positive and a negative role is an idea that few would dispute . |
| 11 | Fish have only a two-chambered heart , consisting of an atrium and a ventricle through which the blood passes on its way to the gills and back to the heart . |
| 12 | It can not be sold ( in the absence of slavery ) and individuals have only a limited ability to transfer non-human wealth into human wealth ( though an individual can , of course , invest in himself through education or by undertaking training courses ) . |
| 13 | Development Needs — many managers have only a general idea of how they want to improve . |
| 14 | Peter and Alma Jarvis have just a few bits and pieces left from their precious Maestro car … their lifeline with the world . |
| 15 | Consequently , secondary-school pupils in China have only a limited opportunity to go into higher education and in this sense , those who do make it can be viewed as a privileged elite . |
| 16 | Today most ports have only a few fishing boats but large fleets still work from three of the ports . |
| 17 | A buzzard 's feathers have almost a glossy look to them , and they 're more than one shade of brown . |
| 18 | In your garden display , fireworks have just a few grams of explosive in them . |
| 19 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 20 | If we say , say twenty five percent , right mind you , you know these that most people have about a third to two thirds right |
| 21 | ‘ I still find some of the things she does difficult to understand even after all these years , but I have grasped her conviction that people have only a finite quantity of affection to give and her terror that if Anthony lets anyone new have any she will have that much less for herself . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , astronomers have only a vague idea of how big the Universe really is because of uncertainties in their ‘ cosmological distance scale ’ . |
| 23 | Hence we argued that , for people already in work , changes in after-tax rates have only a small effect on hours of work supplied . |
| 24 | As with civil servants , officers in local government have both a managerial role — being responsible for the efficient running of their department- and a policy-advisory function . |
| 25 | Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors . |
| 26 | Researchers around the world have only a dozen or so AFMs , compared with hundreds of STMs . |
| 27 | there is a deep feeling that academic training gets between a policeman and his knowing and getting the respect of the crude masses of a very crude , very egalitarian and anti-intellectual European race … the police have indeed a general belief that they know more psychology than academics . |
| 28 | The children have rather a low opinion of you , I imagine . ’ |
| 29 | These factors have only a limited relationship with the reader 's age but will largely determine whether a young reader ‘ sticks with ’ or abandons the reading . |
| 30 | The colonies vary widely in shape : some are shrub-like , with numerous slender branches , others have only a few , or even a single branch . |