Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such flows approach asymptotically to the self-preserving form , although often very slowly ; for reasons to be seen in Section 21.4 , turbulent flows have a long ‘ memory ’ of upstream conditions . |
| 2 | The regional authorities have a major role in resource and curriculum planning for the school and community education sectors . |
| 3 | ( One roll-call of disadvantaged groups has a telling juxtaposition : ‘ people with disabilities , folk enthusiasts … ’ |
| 4 | Agricultural pesticides had a devastating effect on numbers during the 50s and early 60s but since certain chemicals have been banned the figure has risen to around 1,050 pairs . |
| 5 | The light and pleasant bedrooms have a private bathroom and are traditionally furnished . |
| 6 | I suggest that the usual channels have a strong interest in seeing that they control this important piece of procedure . |
| 7 | European nations had a common interest in opening the world to commerce . |
| 8 | Thus the councillors for non-county boroughs , urban districts and rural districts had a limited range of responsibilities ; separate elections were held to choose county councillors . |
| 9 | His narrow shoulders had a permanent forward-drooping hunch , with the result that clothes seemed to hang off him in shapeless folds . |
| 10 | The six children with no colonic contractions had a hollow visceral myopathy and constipation . |
| 11 | Ophiolimna bairdi can easily be distinguished from O. lineata by a number of features : the disk is covered with granules , not spinelets ; which extend on to the oral frame ; the oral shield is a large triangle and the oral papillae have a different shape and arrangement ( see p. 60 ) |
| 12 | Obviously different social groups have a varying ability to articulate these concerns , but there is a widely shared general notion that there is something valuable — ‘ the British way of life ’ — which would be undermined by translation into an overwhelmingly Catholic country . |
| 13 | Social phenomena have a disconcerting habit of climbing up to positions of eminence from which they conveniently repudiate their humble origins ; we must not be misled by this . |
| 14 | I do n't quite know what the idea of the visit was , but the French Canadians had a similar one — anyway , everyone sold gold bricks to one another like mad . |
| 15 | Brown rankers have a brown or dark brown A horizon . |
| 16 | To recap the method , direct taxes have a legal framework facilitating the assessment of the overall effective marginal tax rates . |
| 17 | Snails with right-handed spiral cleavage have shells which coil with the same handedness , and left-handed shells have a left-handed spiral cleavage . |
| 18 | The British kids have a tough lot … they have some tough baggage to handle . ’ |
| 19 | That ground is a grubber kick away from Hong Kong Football Club where the Scottish Survivors had a grand day in the ten-a-side event winning all their three matches against Bucks RFC ( Singapore ) , 45-0 ; Hong Kong Forces , 34-0 ; and Wombats ( Australia ) , 43-0 . |
| 20 | SCOTTISH SCHOOLS had a notable victory when they beat the French 10–6 at Murrayfield . |
| 21 | Because light waves have a high frequency , modulated light can carry signals of wide bandwidth . |
| 22 | british Waterways have a large maintenance yard adjacent with an unusually large number of boats present . |
| 23 | As in the previous example , this generalization then permits the approaching waves to have a continuous wave front for appropriate values of k and a . |
| 24 | Public utilities have a statutory right to be granted easements to cross land , and although such easements are usually obtained by negotiation , where landowners object , the courts will ultimately override any objections . |
| 25 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 26 | Micro-mesh nets are best , both for the welfare of the fish and your own good temper , for wide-mesh nets have a nasty habit of ensnaring leger weights and shot . |
| 27 | York district has a membership which has risen rapidly to 669 and Harrogate has 345 members , which all goes to show that the more northerley areas have a just claim for cricket somewhere in the region . |
| 28 | If the policy-making area is technical and complex , public officials have a decided advantage , even though the state may not have a total monopoly of technically relevant knowledge in policy areas where it is pursuing corporatist arrangements . |
| 29 | Thus c-type bands always have sharp distinct Q branches on an indistinct background with no apparent gap between P and R branches ; b-type bands have a central dip with no distinct Q-branch ( or sometimes a Q-branch clearly divided into two , again leaving a distinct central gap ) ; and a-type bands have more or less clear P , Q , and R branches . |
| 30 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |