Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ICARDA 's multidisciplinary staff of over 60 senior scientists and 600 technical and support personnel has an international mandate for barley , faba bean and lentil production improvement and — with other centres — a joint regional mandate for wheat and chickpea production improvement .
2 Steel can be extracted magnetically from waste , but only one in 10 local authorities has the necessary equipment .
3 The United states has a huge task force of some 500 army staff in Antarctica .
4 A woman with a small mouth and short fingers has a shallow porte feminine and she is easy to please .
5 This complexity explains why the system of concepts and of values has no direct relationship with the process of production ; the two do n't fit .
6 The length of syllables has an important part to play in prominence .
7 The rivalry between these three clubs has an unusual history .
8 The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers .
9 Prunella Scales has no special voice for children and reads Laura Cecil 's anthology of stories for young children , ‘ Listen To This ’ ( TS404 — one cassette ; 55 minutes ) , with her customary forthrightness and versatility .
10 In the horse , T. axei has a prepatent period of 25 days while in game birds infected with T. tenuis it is only 10 days .
11 ( One roll-call of disadvantaged groups has a telling juxtaposition : ‘ people with disabilities , folk enthusiasts … ’
12 ‘ it is difficult to see how these ( organisation ) problems can be solved efficiently without restoring responsible autonomy to primary groups throughout the system and ensuring that each of these groups has a satisfying sub-whole as its work task , and some scope for flexibility in work-pace .
13 I do think the artificial division of people into age groups has a damaging effect on society .
14 A capacitor made of concentric cylinders has an inner radius a , outer radius b , and length l. it is filled with a dielectric of relative permittivity
15 One of the three legs has a levelling screw which proved helpful on uneven ground .
16 Every assignment on schools has a basic target of five thousand pounds all right ?
17 As Goshiki are grouped in the catch-all Kawarimono class at shows , the Koi buyer with limited funds has a good chance or rearing on a future champion , providing the fish has that certain something .
18 Prolonged staring with wide-open eyes has a special significance for the cat .
19 As the subject of historical studies , and the heroine of romantic fiction , Mary Queen of Scots has a massive lead over all other earthly Maries , only the Virgin scoring more heavily — as even the most cursory glance at the British Library Catalogue of Printed Books makes clear .
20 Although each of his books has a compact plot and a central , young hero , he was always ready to shift the point of vision from this hero .
21 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts has a leading part in Birmingham 's cultural renaissance .
22 One of the bedrooms has a four-poster bed and a Victorian bathroom .
23 The win-win-win sequence of recent months has a pleasing symmetry but the draw-win-draw start to the campaign had already produced an incline that proved ultimately insurmountable .
24 About a mile away , at Sheridan Circle , our director , the former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Leteleir and Ronni Moffitt , an institute worker , were killed in October 1976 by a car bomb planted by right-wing Cubans in the pay of the Pinochet secret police : only in the past few months has the Chilean government paid compensation to their families .
25 The curve for abnormal subareas has a limited sensitivity , but the specificity is high at 1 , for a scoring of 3% of abnormal subareas , which is the demarcation set by Ryder as a departure from normality .
26 This is consistent both with politicians being larger than people who simply wish to be in office whatever they have to do , and with parties having a central number of supporters who share an ideology .
27 Under Article 28 ( a ) of the Convention the Assembly of the Organisation was to elect the Maritime Safety Committee from the ‘ governments of those nations having an important interest in maritime safety of which not less than eight shall be the largest ship-owning nations …
28 A good proportion of our work concerned our availability to act as an unacknowledged arm of the social welfare service to drug users in crisis situations , providing a front-line service for the ‘ speed freaks who 's OD 'd on the results of a bent script ’ , or the ‘ acid heads having a bad trip ’ , for we were in the streets , the pubs , the clubs , the crash pads , and communal houses frequented by the new ‘ alternative society ’ .
29 For word sequences having no complete parse then the probabilities of any partial phrases that had been generated were used .
30 Classes are crowded , with 40 per cent of schools having a teacher-pupil ratio of 45:1 or higher , and many schools have multi-grade classes .
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