Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] has the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European variety has the advantage of a simpler and better understood theory of pricing , but it is a less flexible instrument . |
| 2 | British Rail has the risk : points frozen during a cold snap . |
| 3 | Hence , too , what Sam Rothenstein , then creative head of Masius , once called ‘ The wonderful world of telly ad-land , where 30-year-old mothers have two teenaged children ’ and every suburban semi has the space and furnishings of a Tudor manor house or a film star 's Hollywood mansion . |
| 4 | Activated carbon has the ability to remove a wide variety of organic compounds from water and wastewater , even in trace quantities . |
| 5 | Old boy has the measure of Rangers |
| 6 | However , I believe that if Scottish Enterprise has the matter in hand , it could not be better dealt with . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman has the opportunity of warning us all not to speak for too long , because another important measure , concerning the civil rights of disabled people , is to come before the House today . |
| 8 | Surely the right hon. Gentleman has the wisdom to sort that out . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman has the News of the World . |
| 10 | By contrast , a small vignette on folio 120 of the Bedford Hours in the British Library has the corpse closely wrapped in a manner not unlike that of an Egyptian mummy . |
| 11 | Instead , public authorities become the representatives of ‘ residual constituencies that … have not been wholly absorbed into the dominant groups ’ , such as the ethnic and racial minorities , farm workers , unorganised industrial workers and those who are almost totally dependent upon the welfare state ; ‘ In other words , public authority has the constituency of the powerless ’ . |
| 12 | The evening is the finest that commercial theatre has the right to expect . ’ |
| 13 | This assumes that social worker has the information available to them to make correct decisions . |
| 14 | Even in the short term , they can see a dismally weak market in the rest of Europe , and no obvious sign that the British public has the confidence to start spending again . |
| 15 | If the right hon. Member has the evidence , he should place it before the Home Secretary , the police and other appropriate authorities rather than come here , in the time off that he has from his interviews on Sky , to make wild accusations about everyone involved in immigration matters . |
| 16 | A semantic net has the virtue of simplicity . |
| 17 | To include any such anticipatory provision has the merit of bringing home to the individual partners the importance of viewing their involvement in the firm as a long term commitment , which may serve to reduce , if not to eliminate , the pain felt if and when a cash call has to be made . |
| 18 | This means that each individual cell has the ability to develop into any kind of cell that the organism will require for survival . |
| 19 | Tracey 's new book , The Dark Ark has the trademark Boyd style and humour . |
| 20 | Tracey 's new book , The Dark Ark has the trademark Boyd style and humour . |
| 21 | Thus Kant 's moral philosophy has the merit of mainly being concerned with illuminating how each of us should decide what to do himself , rather than with advising him how to judge others . |
| 22 | The official record has the event occurring on July 24 , 1961 , it was the result of an unblown take-off when the aircraft refused to unstick . |
| 23 | And the honourable gentleman has the nerve to say that we have rigged the market against coal . |
| 24 | Both of these count , in legal terms , as private property , and the individual owner has the right to buy , sell , control and even destroy personal wealth . |
| 25 | It is not too much to say that the quoted argument has the strength of this : We say it is probable that the spoon is under the napkin ; the relation of " being under " is therefore a relation of probability . |
| 26 | Both uses can in French be covered by the same word ancien , but they are distinguished in that the separative use requires prenominal position , while the standard use has the adjective after the noun , as in : ( 43 ) l'ancienne école de Charlie a fait banqueroute ( 44 ) cette école ancienne a hébergé les fils des tyrans depuis des siècles The same distinction is also marked overtly in Thai ; in this case it is realized not by a difference of syntactic position , but by a different choice of lexical item . |
| 27 | However , starting from civil society has the virtue of starting from how people do lead their lives and brings us up against questions about how social changes have transformed the range of possibilities available to them . |
| 28 | At least utilitarian reductivism has the virtue that it slots into the general moral and political theory of utilitarianism . |
| 29 | With educational broadcasts a fixed format has the advantage that teachers and students come to know what to expect . |
| 30 | However , as with the magnification of print by lenses or low vision aids , enlarged print has the disadvantage of reducing the number of words or even letters that can be glimpsed at one time , and therefore may reduce speed and fluency in reading . |