Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] have a " in BNC.

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1 It is better by far for the patient to have a week or so in which to mull over all that has occurred and everything he or she has learnt about the past .
2 The Yellow Book also requires the approval of shareholders for certain transactions and it may be necessary for the contract to have a gap between exchange and completion .
3 It is usual for the hotel to have a cancellation deadline usually four weeks before the expected arrival date .
4 It would be possible for the village to have a community shop and part time post office .
5 In these conditions it is vital for the pilot to have a hand close to the release , ready to pull it if the need arises .
6 Praise God for the opportunity to have a ministry of this nature , church-based and in the heart of community life .
7 It is vital for the industrialist to have a degree of sensitivity and understanding of national differences .
8 Climbing 25cm is not enough ; a 50cm ascent is the minimum needed for the butterfly to have a reasonable chance of survival .
9 Morty Bahr , the CWA 's president , has presented the deal to his members as an unprecedented chance for the union to have a hand in corporate decision-making ; he wants the CWA to be a model for other American unions .
10 ‘ The purpose of these stubs in a paying-in book is for the holder to have a record of the amount of money he had deposited in his bank .
11 I apologise for the length of the , of the grouping , but it has been agreed between all of those concerned that it would be better er for the Committee to have a single debate on the size and composition of police authorities , rather than er a seri a series of debates on closely-related issues .
12 When we landed at Bombay ( for the story has a happy ending ) I asked to be shown the piece of tarmac pasteurised for the Pope to kiss on his recent visit , so I could bless it too ( poojahs is the Hindi word ) and give thanks for deliverance .
13 Patrick Edgeworth 's Boswell For The Defence has a plot of sorts — the barrister 's defence of Mary Broad , an escapee from the penal colony at Sydney Cove — but , in the end , the form defeats any narrative thrust .
14 If notation is to offer a self-evident ordering , then it is important that the symbols used for the notation have a self-evident order in themselves .
15 One useful refinement in arresting a slip is for the leader to have a hand loop tied in the rope with an overhand knot .
16 It ca n't , thought Robert , be good for the personality to have a load of middle-aged men prostrating themselves in front of you and sobbing every time you open your mouth .
17 I would imagine it 'll be a very , very similar sort of game , er hopefully we 'll get the right result , but it 's good for the club to have a good run .
18 This qualification is important : it was not enough for the testator to have a general intention that certain property should pass to a certain person .
19 For example , the Secretary of State for the Environment has a duty , not just a power , to compile lists of buildings of historic and architectural interest .
20 THE SECRETARY of State for the Environment has a duty — not just a power — laid on him by parliament , to compile lists of buildings which are of historic and architectural interest .
21 We must get in , do the job and get out as quickly as POSSIBLE — leaving the place as the public have a right to find it .
22 Producers and organisations such as the Guild have a vital role in telling consumers both at home and abroad how good British cheese can be .
23 Like other key notions in psychoanalysis , the sense of desire as a quest for an always impossible self-completion in or through the other has a long though oft en unrecognized history .
24 The hole through the middle has a diameter of 16Å .
25 A severe hangover Whoever runs the economy after the election has a job on their hands .
26 RECOVERY A severe hangover Whoever runs the economy after the election has a job on their hands .
27 All members of the church have a contribution to make to the preparation , especially in the light of our growing awareness of how different vocations within the church are complementary .
28 Since the family were exiled from France there could be no question of the Prince having a political role within the country , even though there was no lack of latent Bonapartist feeling among all sections of society .
29 The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table .
30 And that 's extremely difficult to do something about the equity target , since National policy , the distribution of income , housing policy , all the things that we tackle on this committee and committees of the council have a very significant effect on the health of the people who live in the city , and it 's not in our control .
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