Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case a corporation has its reputation , separate from its members , capable of being adversely affected by defamatory statements and which it is entitled to protect by recourse to an action for libel . |
| 2 | In that case a farmer had bought from a dealer a towing coupling for his Land Rover . |
| 3 | In that case a wife had been persuaded to charge her property as security for the payment of her husband 's debts to the bank . |
| 4 | Among the rules and conditions for admission to this establishment a person had to have been resident in the parish for three years to have been receiving parish relief , and to be able to recite the Lord 's prayer and Apsotles ' Creed , also they shall not be an enemy of the Gospel or Established religion , nor a common swearer , adulterer , thief , picker , hedge breaker or drunkard . |
| 5 | On the other side of the stone circle , against the wall , a wide bench for sleeping was covered with a thin woollen blanket , and high up on another wall a shelf had been fashioned , hand-made and crooked , but functional nevertheless , and holding an assortment of objects and jars that drew Isabel at once . |
| 6 | And twice this week a bus has come down School Lane . |
| 7 | So in this sense a contradiction has principal and secondary aspects . |
| 8 | For some reason a copy has arrived here . |
| 9 | In this situation a woman has two options . |
| 10 | Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better . |
| 11 | Up to now , most borders have been French imports , but this year a company has come into being which designs and manufactures borders in this country . |
| 12 | This year a robin has nested in the closely interlacing branches ; last summer there was a wren . |
| 13 | We can be sure therefore that from this date a church has stood in Halling . |
| 14 | About this time a shaft had been started from the end of a 42 yds. long tunnel , Bouncy Level , driven into the vein from a point much higher up the boulder strewn fell-side quite close to the Crag . |
| 15 | For some time a rumour had persisted that Horemheb , in his moves to clear up the corruption which had flourished like rampant weed during the years in which the city had fallen into neglect , had more than once attempted to close it ; but that the interests which protected it were still too powerful for him to dispense with . |
| 16 | Mr Parry said it should be pointed out that when a person takes over a public house a protection has to be granted first . |
| 17 | In one of the political meetings at the second branch a councillor had voiced typically conservative views on education , stressing the need to encourage the brightest and discourage bad behaviour by the cane . |
| 18 | In early adolescence a girl had been fascinated by ‘ Hansel and Gretel ’ , and had derived great comfort from reading and re-reading it , fantasizing about it . |
| 19 | The first attempts to identify how much difficulty a person has performing a specific task while the second approach considers whether help is received in order to undertake specific tasks . |
| 20 | When Tess arrived home the following afternoon a letter had already been received by her mother . |
| 21 | The moral outlook a person has may — though this is , of course , only a statistical or average truth — depend on whether that person is male or female . |
| 22 | What we are stressing is that the disciplinary context is important to understanding what kind of contribution is on offer , and this includes understanding the special limited concern a discipline has toward the world , and is an essential consideration in evaluating its research and the data it produces . |
| 23 | This is the second time a court has ruled that press coverage of a controversial case has prevented a fair trial . |
| 24 | just a couple of months afterwards , playing India in Trinidad with three spin bowlers in his team , he saw them reach 406 for 4 to win the match , only the second time a team had passed 400 runs to win a Test . |
| 25 | But the previous day a judge had adjourned the trial of Winnie Mandela , wife of the ANC 's leader , who faces charges of kidnapping and assault . |
| 26 | At 0700 hours the previous morning a bomb had exploded under the engine of a passenger train , just before an unmanned level crossing on the main Belfast to Londonderry railway line , in the north-west of Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | According to former Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup player Paul McGinley , who obtained his European Tour Card last year , it does n't just come down to how much natural ability a player has . |
| 28 | It takes a moment to realise that it is not some pagan idol , but a head of Christ on the cross , that the spikes represent the crown of thorns and that in the wreckage of the ancient trunk a face has been carved . |
| 29 | The only prior knowledge a baby has is what is in its chromosomes , and chromosomes do not encode that sort of knowledge . |
| 30 | If you are not already collecting these for some good cause a teacher has drawn attention to the following Association which will be glad to receive them ‘ British Kidney Patients Association ’ , Bordon , Hampshire . |