Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theories of foregrounding , both linguistic and cognitive ( see , for example , van Peer 1986 or Cook 1990 ) , can help focus the intuitions readers have about a text . |
| 2 | This illustrates yet again the somewhat uneven pattern of evolution , since crocodiles have in a sense regressed by returning to the water . |
| 3 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
| 4 | In recent years the model 's exclusive focus on shareholder interests has to a degree been modified . |
| 5 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 6 | But without it the advantages that a system of graded tests has over a GCSE or A level system will be lost . |
| 7 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here . |
| 8 | Prior to this decision the authorities had in a number of cases resorted to violence to prevent people from seeking refuge in the embassies of various Western countries . |
| 9 | Six years later , when the launching of the European Economic Community with the same six member states had in a sense superseded the ECSC , the Authority could make a reasonably positive report . |
| 10 | Following Conway v. Rimmer , the courts have on a number of occasions ordered disclosure against the wishes of the Crown . |
| 11 | These are , in fact , matters of which the courts have to an extent been prepared to take notice in the past . |