Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Grandfathers and coal-hewing cousins , brothers and the front row of Neath , Homeric schoolteachers and sopranos whose voices had a bell in every tooth made their entrance on to the Oxford stage , mixed in with chorus girls from Cardiff , waterfront villains from Liverpool and the twenty-two-carat glitz of the West End , where he had opened in The Druid 's Rest in January 1944 with fires in the sky at night , bombs falling from the Luftwaffe and pubs and clubs burning excitement under the blackout . |
| 5 | However , it is also the case that schools have a lot in common . |
| 6 | Modern electronic indicators have a probe in each exhaust pipe , and can show temperature individually or scan to give an average reading . |
| 7 | Antagonism at this receptor can prevent and even abolish these changes , suggesting that antagonists have a place in preventing and treating this pathological pain . |
| 8 | The speaker assumes that the listener shares the speaker 's need for closeness and the view that both parties have a lot in common . |
| 9 | Most power tool manufacturers have a gun in their ranges . |
| 10 | These contradictory data could perhaps be explained by different viruses having a role in different geographical areas . |
| 11 | The organisation 's policy is to allow no more than 4 companies to have a franchise in any one country . |
| 12 | The disk is round ; covered with many large plates amongst which the centrodorsal and usually the primary plates are distinct , often these plates have a knob in the centre ; disk diameter up to 9 mm . |
| 13 | The parents have a place in the car and should be consulted on the destination and route . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , if you are reading this you have n't forgotten us , we are working on it and I do think Graduate Associations have a place in the 90's . |
| 15 | However , we have shown that mental models have a role in the interpretation of ellipses , and that a surface representation is used to interpret pronouns . |
| 16 | Reed volunteered background : ‘ The Garlands have a shop in the main street , a couple of hundred yards from here : artists ’ materials , pictures , that sort of thing ; they 're printers too — they have their works farther along the waterfront , just beyond Customs Quay . |
| 17 | Linnaeus ' system of plants had a basis in arithmetic : he counted the male and female parts of the flower , and these figures placed it in its class . |
| 18 | Now we need to talk a little bit about what happens when the veins or the arteries or the capillaries for that matter , the veins , the arteries or the capillaries have a leak in them , they become broken , now you already know that the circulatory system is a closed system and that the blood can only do its job if it 's being transported within that system , once the blood comes outside of that system then it 's lost the circulation and it can not perform its proper function any more , in other words the body 's losing its blood , okay , what condition do we call it when the circulatory system stops working properly ? |
| 19 | Many other insects have a shift in colour vision similar to the bee 's , and flowers have evolved to be attractive to their eyes . |
| 20 | This modern justification of the discretionary power of corporate managers has a parallel in administrative law where we find that one of the arguments used to legitimate conferring discretionary power on administrative agencies has been their expertise and special competence in a particular field . |
| 21 | Two thugs having a square-go in Glasgow could not have set about one another with any less ferocity than the Scottish Secretary and the Scottish National Party leader did on Tuesday . |
| 22 | The peer group makes decisions in a democratic way , with all owners having a say in the final decision . |
| 23 | The first gerrymander of the city occurred in 1896 , with the Londonderry improvement Bill ; this created five electoral wards , one of which held the bulk of the city 's Catholics , and enabled the Unionists to have a majority in the others . |
| 24 | Our integrated health programme has provided a catalyst for slum families to have a hand in controlling their environment and working together to benefit each other . |
| 25 | A charity which paid for a group of Russian orphans to have a holiday in England has brought them back again . |
| 26 | But although these figures do tell us how few families had a grandparent in their own home , they can be misleading . |
| 27 | Unionists had a majority in Lloyd George 's war cabinet , but were little better placed in his government as a whole . |
| 28 | Maybe one of the lorries had a hole in it — nothing , it seemed , was too bizarre for the purposes of sound arithmetic . |
| 29 | Recognizing that , when several agencies have a finger in the pie of , say , biotechnology , it is prudent that there should be a committee to coordinate their spending , the committee 's budget then becomes an identifiable object in itself , to be judged against what may be called ‘ results ’ . |
| 30 | Suppose farmers have a right in law to enjoin the railway company not to set fire to their fields : the result is that the company will fit spark-suppressing equipment to their trains , and there will be less damage to the farmers ' fields . |