Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun sg] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that a swing has occurred to a position where the greatest proportion of maintenance effort is now spent at the problem/solution identification stage . |
| 2 | It is all very well to delay the onset of a retinopathy for a year or two , but to achieve this , is it justifiable that a diabetic has no social life and a poorer quality of life for 20 years ? |
| 3 | The couple may simply require light because a fuse has blown or a power cut has occurred . |
| 4 | Justice without immediacy is justice perverted , not least when the guilty go free after a case has lapsed because the credibility of identity evidence has been undermined by delay . |
| 5 | If it were clear when a party has formed an intention to incur legal obligation , if a person did commonly define the obligation he desired to assume in terms which left little doubt as to its nature , it would be unnecessary , and indeed merely foolish , to require an additional test of that intention . |
| 6 | Unaware that a fly has accompanied him on his maiden voyage , he turns into a sex-obsessed , sugar-addicted mutant . |
| 7 | A DC changes state to REJECTED if a user has rejected the DC using option 2.2.0 but only when the last interested user has assessed the DC . |
| 8 | No compensation for delay in delivery is payable unless a reservation has been sent within 21 days to the carrier . |
| 9 | Referring issues to a named firm or company can run into similar problems but , again , it is appropriate when a dispute has already arisen : see 8.2.4 . |
| 10 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 11 | Alternatively , if you are not happy with your design , perhaps because some of it has come unglued or a crease has formed in the backing material , then you will have to remove the glass and rectify the problem before starting this process all over again . |
| 12 | Reliability in supplies : It is likely that a firm has greater control over reliability of supplies if it makes a component rather than buying it in from another firm . |
| 13 | It will be at once obvious that a rotation has occurred , round an identifiable centre . |
| 14 | Injury is more likely when a joint has become stiff either with age or disuse . |
| 15 | It replaced the previous categories of handicap with the concept of special educational needs , defined as existing where a child has significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age , or has a disability that prevents or hinders him or her from using the educational facilities normally available . |
| 16 | This kick is especially useful when a fighter has been knocked to the ground and his opponent is closing in for the kill , although in training it is learned from a standing position . |
| 17 | The informal organisation of a company is so important that a newcomer has to ‘ learn the ropes ’ before he can settle effectively into his job , and he must also become ‘ accepted ’ by his fellow workers . |
| 18 | In the real world , it is unlikely that a product has clear advantages over its competition on all points , and it is clearly part of the selling function for the salesperson to emphasise those superior features and benefits which his product possesses . |
| 19 | The need for finality of adjudication by the court whose decision is relied on to found a plea of autrefois convict is even more clearly apparent where a defendant has pleaded guilty . |
| 20 | Also , the map can be regenerated if it is apparent that a mistake has been made in the specifications . |
| 21 | ‘ It is apparent that a step has been made in the right direction … the property will soon be entirely under comparatively well-to-do tenants . |
| 22 | It is essential once a feed has been dropped that it should not be reinstated in a moment of weakness . |
| 23 | Second , there are often two different passives available when a sentence has a sequence noun + adjective following the verb ; for instance , the fourth example of the previous set can be linked either to ( 4 ) or to ( 5 ) : ( 4 ) the packages registered were sent by our lawyer ( 5 ) the packages were sent registered by our lawyer It is intuitively obvious that ( 4 ) corresponds to the postnominal attributive interpretation of ( 3 ) ( c ) , but ( 5 ) to the other intensional pattern introduced here . |
| 24 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 25 | Trade marks : harmonization is imminent and a Directive has been issued requiring compliance by 1st January 1993 ( Council Directive to approximate the laws of Member States relating to trade marks ( 89/104/EEC ) ) . |
| 26 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 27 | The yacht was so new that a price has yet to be established . |
| 28 | Although the police do not need to be certain that a person has heard or seen what is going on before they can call for quiet under the Act ( since it is sufficient that they have reasonable cause to believe that an offence is being committed ) , they would afterwards have to conduct house to house enquiries before they could truthfully say that the conduct was actually heard or seen by a bystander . |
| 29 | The Polytechnic must find it all the more galling that a situation has developed whereby an institute of higher education has become a sub-centre of the Faculty of Education at Cardiff for training further education teachers , a role that is denied to the Polytechnic because it has lost its involvement in the professional training of teachers . |
| 30 | Aerial ULV sprays will be most suitable when a pest has to be controlled over vast areas at the same time ; in the control of tsetse fly , for example , and in forests , to control pine beauty moth in Scotland . |