Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The food we eat has a significant effect upon our mental agility .
2 Nutritionists and doctors agree that the food we eat has an enormous amount to do with the way we look and feel .
3 The treatment prescribed has a familiar ring : rigorous financial analysis followed by cost-cutting , asset sales and then negotiations to convince creditors that rescheduling beats liquidation .
4 The cyclic quadrilateral so formed has an important property ; its opposite angles add to 180° .
5 The red chair where I sit has a long seat , comfortable for a tall person .
6 The job or position to which a person is attracted has a strong link to their goal profile .
7 Selby has has a particular problem , its its economy is narrowly focused , it suffers high unemployment .
8 The d.c. supply voltage ( V5 ) is chosen so that it produces the rated winding current ( 1 ) when applied to the total phase circuit resistance , which is equal to the sum of the phase winding ( r ) and forcing ( R ) resistances : In general the phase winding has a considerable inductance , so its natural electrical time constant ( inductance/resistance ) is long .
9 Waiting in the third round could be fourth seed Boris Becker , who has had a torrid time in the build-up to the French Championships but who has a good chance to find his feet with a first round match against 579th-ranked French wild card Nicolas Escude .
10 Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Payton has had a torrid time .
11 FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo .
12 Soon , there is pounding on the window , the pounding of the Rons , Roger and Simone , Crilly and Pamela , who has had a second wind .
13 The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments .
14 Home-grown : Edinburgh 's Royal Botanic Garden also has had a long involvement with the development of plants with medicinal properties
15 He jumps at home only when he has had a long rest and needs a quick reminder of what the job is all about ; otherwise his jumping is confined to the shows .
16 France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism .
17 Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed .
18 Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered .
19 This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory .
20 As most of you will know , Queens Park has had a long standing partnership with the Baptist Church in Doolay Falls near Wichita , Kansas .
21 Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing .
22 Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist !
23 Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site .
24 Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden .
25 The new legislation regarding seat belt wearing in the rear seats of cars which came into effect on 1 July 1991 has had a downward effect on the number of rear seat car passenger casualties .
26 The horse has had a disappointing season after having won the Racing Post Stakes as a two-year-old and looking like a ‘ good thing ’ for even one of the Derbys .
27 The horse has had a disappointing season after having won the Racing Post Stakes as a two-year-old and looking like a ‘ good thing ’ for even one of the Derbys .
28 The mink has had a chequered relationship with us , but we must remember that the changes are of our own making .
29 The corporation has had a chequered history since then .
30 But in recent years Microvitec has had a chequered history .
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