Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] have the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Surely the right hon. Gentleman has the wisdom to sort that out .
3 The right hon. Gentleman has the News of the World .
4 Has my right hon. Friend had the opportunity to read the scandalously deceitful national health service trust ballot which was put through my constituents ' letter boxes by Labour-controlled Harlow council — at an expense to the charge payers of £25,000 ?
5 Has my right hon. Friend had the chance to study the document entitled ’ The Citizen 's Charter ’ , which was written in 1921 by Herbert Morrison , then secretary of the London Labour party ?
6 Attempts by the World Wide Fund for Nature and the British Herpetological Society to have the development halted in the courts were defeated in December 1990 [ see ED no. 41/42 ] .
7 ‘ It is not right or arguable that this public limited company has the burden of having to employ Mr Venables as chief executive indefinitely , ’ he added .
8 In a Christian country , this book would be banned altogether instead of which so-called poverty-stricken Merseysiders have the wherewithal to make it a sell-out .
9 Coming in a week , when an American judge told a rape victim she ‘ deserved what she got ’ for wearing a lace mini-skirt , and an English judge dropped a rape charge because his 16-year-old alleged victim had the mental age of seven , yesterday 's case has gone some way to restore their faith in the justice system .
10 She took the first set 6-4 but a sideways stretch to make contact with an English passing shot had the Belfast girl in trouble .
11 A private limited company has the following clause in its Articles of Association concerning the issue of share capital : ‘ The shares shall be under the control of the directors , who may allot and dispose of or grant options over the same to such persons on such terms , and in such a manner as they think fit . ’
12 According to Article 55 , the future Chief Executive had the power to invite " other persons " to sit in on Exco meetings .
13 ‘ Oh no , darling , you did n't think you were the first clever little bitch to have the idea ?
14 They 're for the child in school ; they 're for the housewife ; they 're for the businessman of the future , and an ordinary competent businessman has the capability and the possibility of actually learning how these devices work and using them , rather than just leaving it to the boffin , the scientist , the computer expert .
15 The simple harmonic structure has the effect of freeing melody and form ; melodic lines are not constrained by having to fit changing chords and the form is not constrained by a particular harmonic sequence .
16 It may be provided at Sunday school but I would think that the average Christian parents have the same feeling of unease about discussing faith with the children as they do about discussing sex .
17 NINE leading Japanese banks had the ratings on their debt downgraded yesterday on worries about falling property prices and the slowing Japanese economy .
18 For example , large corporate customers have the option of volume usage discounts .
19 The question is whether domestic competition-policy authorities have the capacity to pursue the issue .
20 The Chamber of Commerce became an independent organization , with 120 corporate industrial members having the right to deal directly with foreign countries .
21 I do not think that the Labour party has anything to crow about , because Labour-controlled local authorities have the most empty homes available and have the highest community charges .
22 And as a Portuguese Euro-minister claims that Britain 's oil may have to be controlled by the authorities in Brussels , Jacques Delors demands another £2bn and ERM-inspired interest rates force thousands on to the dole , how long will it be before one of our major political parties has the guts to campaign against the European Community in its present form , rather than sticking their collective heads in the merde and pretending that everything 's coming up roses ?
23 Nigel had reasoned that , as most washing originated where one divested oneself of one 's dirty clothes and bed linen , i.e. the top floor , it was poor time-and-motion study to have the cleaning apparatus on the ground floor .
24 This cloying commercial clamour had the New Zealand public wound up .
25 A similar delay will not happen again as we will make sure British Rail have the right numbers .
26 The traditional line-item budget has the following defects : ( a ) The budget is subdivided on the basis of department or activity centres , each of which may operate several programmes either individually or as joint ventures .
27 The poor little mite has the colic , but I have dosed him up with laudanum . ’
28 The Stroganov International Charitable Fund has the aim of bringing together the resources required to restore the city 's well-known architectural masterpieces , above all the Stroganov Palace .
29 of the directors and shareholders of a company owning or operating the vessel , must be nationals of that state , even if the competent national authority has the legal power to dispense with that requirement in the case of certain persons .
30 of the directors and shareholders of a company owning or operating the vessel must be nationals of the state , even if the competent national authority has the legal power to dispense with that requirement in the case of certain persons ; ( b ) it is contrary to Community law for a member state to lay down as a requirement for registration that the owners , operators , shareholders and directors , as the case may be , must reside and be domiciled in that member state and , in the case of a company , that it must have its principal place of business there ; and ( c ) it is not contrary to Community law for a member state to make the grant of its flag subject to the requirement that the vessel must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within that member state .
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