Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a [adj] [noun] " 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 The United states has a huge task force of some 500 army staff in Antarctica .
3 A woman with a small mouth and short fingers has a shallow porte feminine and she is easy to please .
4 The length of syllables has an important part to play in prominence .
5 The rivalry between these three clubs has an unusual history .
6 The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers .
7 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 .
8 ( One roll-call of disadvantaged groups has a telling juxtaposition : ‘ people with disabilities , folk enthusiasts … ’
9 ‘ 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 .
10 I do think the artificial division of people into age groups has a damaging effect on society .
11 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
12 One of the three legs has a levelling screw which proved helpful on uneven ground .
13 Every assignment on schools has a basic target of five thousand pounds all right ?
14 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 .
15 Prolonged staring with wide-open eyes has a special significance for the cat .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts has a leading part in Birmingham 's cultural renaissance .
19 One of the bedrooms has a four-poster bed and a Victorian bathroom .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 …
24 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 ’ .
25 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 .
26 The Yearbook of International Organizations ( Union of International Associations , 1988–9 ) lists thousands of bodies classified as : federations of international organizations , universal membership organizations , inter-continental membership organizations , regionally defined membership organizations , organizations emanating from places , persons and other bodies , and organizations having a special form , including foundations and funds .
27 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 .
28 In this passage J. S. Mill resolutely turns his back on allowing sensations to have a universal character .
29 Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments .
30 As more graduates enter primary teaching , so I believe it will become easier for schools to have a common purpose and to recognize this in a jointly worked-out curriculum , with more communication and actual cross-over from one part of the system to the other .
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