Example sentences of "[adj] have a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evenings like this have a way of going on ! |
| 2 | Just under a third are relatively small groupings of staff ; about one half have a membership within the 5–10 range ; a fifth have more than 10 members . |
| 3 | The French have a reputation for being one of the most ‘ politicised ’ nations in the world . |
| 4 | The British may say that if the French have a word for it , then le corbeau must be an old French habit . |
| 5 | ‘ The French have a phrase for it : it 's called a coup de foudre . ’ |
| 6 | Woven textile cloths are manufactured mainly from natural fibres such as cotton or linen although some have a proportion of man made fabrics . |
| 7 | Some have a loop around the spat , between stops , others have loops which are intended to go around the spar and the extension of the vinyl sockets . |
| 8 | Of the most ancient , some have a place of honour in Scottish history , and others were never more than family strongholds in the county 's many feuds . |
| 9 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 10 | Many district planning authorities in fact use standard conditions and some have a policy of attaching certain conditions to particular types of development , e.g. it is the normal practice of some local planning authorities to impose a standard condition on all hot food shops requiring that , ‘ No noise , dust , grit , fumes or odours shall be emitted from the development , which in the opinion of the local planning authority create a nuisance in the locality ’ . |
| 11 | THE British have a reputation for not complaining . |
| 12 | On Nov. 20 Strauss-Kahn blamed the outcome of the negotiations on the UK 's current presidency of the EC , describing it as " calamitous and claiming that " the British have a way of chairing the Community which puts us in difficulty facing the Americans " . |
| 13 | It 's sobering to note that while the British have a mass of facetious academics for each real intellectual , and hardly any big fat writers on the lines of the US , Angela Carter , at the time of Nights at the Circus , was both these things to a world-class degree . |
| 14 | ‘ You British have a term for him . |
| 15 | We and the British have a lot in common . |
| 16 | And the buyers of 1993 have a host of well-priced properties to choose from . |
| 17 | An individual can not , for instance , as such have a right of way over my land , but only as owner of some adjacent piece of land . |
| 18 | The Japanese have a habit of scheduling their ‘ breakthroughs ’ in advance , which may seem silly but in practice generally works . |
| 19 | She might , as in 1986–7 , have to import 8 million tonnes of cereals , amounting to about 40 per cent of urban consumption , or , as in 1988/9 have a surplus of 3 million tonnes which could not be transported , and thus sold , to deficit countries . |
| 20 | Now let me consider some of the situations which lead to poor welfare ; these have a variety of different effects on animals and I will go over them rapidly . |
| 21 | These have a scale of 1:25000 and have just enough detail to the major river features like sharp bends , shallows and islands . |
| 22 | There are still very many families in Tiree who pay no rent , and these have a settlement of their own , called ‘ The Moss , ’ where some very poor creatures dwell , and must have but a miserable livelihood . |
| 23 | All these have a bearing on good movement and/or relaxation and well-being . |
| 24 | Similarly for in-print books there are points where library and book trade concerns overlap , and where these have a bearing upon selection they are described below . |
| 25 | These have a radius of about ten miles and densities of millions of tons per cubic inch . |
| 26 | These have a number of advantages : they are easy to use and set up , requiring little or no training of the operator , can often store pages graphically for retrieval later and can easily be switched from office to office . |
| 27 | Many have a dread of something happening that will plunge them suddenly into a situation of near-poverty , and a few also unconsciously use their financial problems as pegs on which to hang their much deeper fears concerning their health and their future , which they may find hard to face . |
| 28 | Now this one , four hedges together have a mass of two hundred grams how many have a mass of two and ha ? |
| 29 | Unlike mammals and other higher classes of animals , marine invertebrates are not always restricted to one method of reproduction and many have a number of different ways of procreating themselves . |
| 30 | ‘ Adults should be able to do the questions — but many have a phobia about maths , ’ said Dr Tony Gardiner , director of the maths foundation , which set the questions and organised the annual test . |