Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The student who is confident in his library skills has a basis of trust upon which to build — and he will save himself a great deal of humiliation as well as precious time ( a commodity his teachers are themselves equally short of ) .
2 Because the networks believe westerns appeal mainly to middle-aged men , Young Riders has a cast of five pouting young male actors , in an attempt to make a western with ‘ good demographics ’ .
3 Assume also that each of these states has a probability of 0.5 .
4 But how many times has a manufacturer of , say , microphones said , ‘ Look at the specification of our new such-and-such ; it beats the Shure SM58 hands down . ’
5 Fairview New Homes has a number of sites in North East London designed and priced for first-time buyers .
6 And I 'd like art teacher 's in all the school 's all around , not just Harlow but Hoddesdon Hertford all around Epping to be asked I 'd like artists to be asked from all around erm Essex has a directory of artists Eastern Arts has a directory of artists , I think you could probably find quite a lot of people .
7 Our aim is to ensure that anyone who is unemployed for more than six months has a choice of job experience or training .
8 Do the Jews have a monopoly of suffering ? ’
9 It is doubtful if we can talk about modern nations having a culture in the sense that we can say that there is a monolithic entity called American culture or British culture .
10 The , the point of the change in our constitution was actually to er move strictly away from all parish organizations having a right to representative here , and just a small number have elected .
11 Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol .
12 ‘ Fascism ’ , he said , ‘ is not a creed for the smug mice who choose to emerge from under Bloomsbury tea-cosies to have a nibble at it . ’
13 It is therefore a legal necessity for almost all goat-keepers to have a copy of the MAFF Code of Welfare of Goats .
14 In other words to have a file of lecturers in lecturer number order , another in name order , another in status order , and yet another one according to qualification .
15 There is a recognised case for the utilities to have a right of compulsory acquiring the use of land .
16 In fact everything about him was shiny ; his hair , face , clothes , briefcase , shoes , fingernails , even his ears had a shine to them .
17 When a title of a book was given there was discussion about it ; book lists had a paragraph about each book saying who thought what about it .
18 If the order is to be disrupted it is because one of the younger sons shows remarkable promise but being a ‘ family ’ anxious to demonstrate tolerance , envy and jealousy are masked and can certainly be dissipated if it is suggested that the elder brothers had a hand in the development .
19 Her cheekbones were like plums under the fabric of her face and her closed eyes had a crescent of natural shade where lid met lid .
20 Those dark eyes had a way of burning into her .
21 His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open .
22 The others had gone willingly , but the drivers had a feeling of resentment from the start ; army pay was less than their civilian earnings .
23 The opposition parties had a PV of 51.1 , higher than Fianna Fail 's at 45.7 ; but Fianna Fail 's PS was 51.7 , again a majority .
24 Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ?
25 Well as I say , the police stopped them the other morning and one of the lads had a chat with the driver and all this and he carried on .
26 And er all the branches had a cook at the national agreement how to try and alter it and make it better .
27 Only three subjects had a feeling of wind before a period of intermittent need for defecation .
28 Yet his subjects had a right of resistance , of rebellion against him , if he failed to rule them justly and to give them due protection .
29 Ninety-two per cent of those in old people 's homes compared with 82 per cent of those in other sorts of homes had this amenity — a difference which fell short of statistical significance — but more of those in old people 's homes had a room of their own , two-thirds against half .
30 One out of every three restaurants had a problem with employee and customer slips during the past year , most occurring in the kitchen
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