Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United states has a huge task force of some 500 army staff in Antarctica . |
| 2 | A woman with a small mouth and short fingers has a shallow porte feminine and she is easy to please . |
| 3 | The employment and income created directly and indirectly by Scotch Whisky companies and their associated supplier chains has a further impact on the UK economy . |
| 4 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( One roll-call of disadvantaged groups has a telling juxtaposition : ‘ people with disabilities , folk enthusiasts … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I do think the artificial division of people into age groups has a damaging effect on society . |
| 9 | One of the three legs has a levelling screw which proved helpful on uneven ground . |
| 10 | Every assignment on schools has a basic target of five thousand pounds all right ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Prolonged staring with wide-open eyes has a special significance for the cat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Barber Institute of Fine Arts has a leading part in Birmingham 's cultural renaissance . |
| 16 | One of the bedrooms has a four-poster bed and a Victorian bathroom . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In this passage J. S. Mill resolutely turns his back on allowing sensations to have a universal character . |
| 25 | Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments . |
| 26 | Future developments in the use of microcomputers including applications such as the use of expert systems , compact and video disks , electronic publishing and interactive video will be discussed in Chapter 10 and allow those starting to use microcomputers in schools to have a wider view of potential applications . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 29 | And in a third sense , literature is thought by many structuralists to have a special relationship to language , in that it involves a unique awareness of the nature of language itself . |
| 30 | Daisy watched an expectant Trace Coley re-arranging her Panama in the driving mirror of her father 's Rolls as Brigadier Canford put on his spectacles to have a better look . |