Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its story has a root in the puzzles of ancient texts . |
| 2 | The clubs are level on points , but the Suffolk side has a game in hand . |
| 3 | Parents and staff should n't be seen as an endless source of free labour as even voluntary labour has a cost in time and goodwill . |
| 4 | Ritual has a place in domestic activity . |
| 5 | Selma has a son in Germany , but she has lost contact with him . |
| 6 | CONTROVERSY exists over whether aluminium has a role in the aetiology of Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 7 | In certain cases declarations and injunctions can also be sought under Order 53 ; and a claim for damages can be joined to an AJR if it arises out of a matter to which the AJR relates and provided the court is satisfied that the applicant has a case in private law for the award of damages . |
| 8 | ‘ We do not see that such undeserved humiliation has a place in the Institute 's Manifesto , ’ says Liverpool . |
| 9 | Utterly bloody Alejandro has a mistress in BA . |
| 10 | Although there is no mention of it on the map , I could swear that the tiny loch has a crannog in it . |
| 11 | The patient with sensory loss has a problem in that he can not feel heat , cold , pain and pressure . |
| 12 | Marble Steps , however , enclosed by a wall and under a canopy of foliage , looks almost inviting , the setting having a beauty in contrast to the desolate moorlands around . |
| 13 | But if your thinking having a pig in your living room could lead to some unusual smells — you 're wrong . |
| 14 | But if your thinking having a pig in your living room could lead to some unusual smells — you 're wrong . |
| 15 | Spring had a spring in her lithesome step ; the birds were trilling in what , over Birmingham , passes for sky ; and the wicket was , according to Wisden , in decent condition . |
| 16 | The Palais Club had a membership in 1928 ‘ well past the ½ thousand mark ’ and it grew fast as dancing became the major pastime of the 30s and 40s . |
| 17 | Anthropology had a place in this scheme because for Marx it was the study of the early history of mankind . |
| 18 | The wheel had a bulge in it , I went to have it fixed and the |
| 19 | The Mayor had a reputation in the City as the best politician money could buy . |
| 20 | ‘ So , the Deputy Mayor had a party in that very room ! ’ |
| 21 | The proposal has a parallel in a new clause tabled in Committee by the Hon. Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) proposing that bus interests should come under the Scottish Transport Users Consultative Committee , as rail and ferry interests do at present . |
| 22 | So , on a 4 x 4 , unless the vehicle has a differential in the gearbox to allow for the different rotations of the front and rear propshafts , the transmission will ‘ wind itself up ’ . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , depreciation has a place in capital maintenance . |
| 24 | Very often , an act has a clause in it saying that it will take effect only when an order is issued by the appropriate Secretary of State . |
| 25 | A more complicated kind of difference is where , without affecting the overall set of phonemes and contrasts , a phoneme has a distribution in one accent that is different from the ‘ same ’ phoneme 's distribution in another accent . |
| 26 | Tod has a brother in Gartree Maximum Security , and another drowned in the Thames . |
| 27 | Or the girl with the nail polish and cuticle remover on the five-items-only check-out at Tesco 's , or the doctor 's waiting-room at 9.35 am when the surgery says SHUT and your child has a conker in his works . |
| 28 | you see the Arts Council has a finger in most pies , the only way to find out through them , I mean the trouble is , a lot of it , is going to be confidential |
| 29 | The group the old pullover has a structure in which the can be replaced by , for example , an , my , Joe 's , this , but not by Joe , Monday or want which would produce a non-English group , eg *Monday old pullover . |
| 30 | Syphilis has a reputation in the United Kingdom today quite out of proportion to the amount of infection that it causes . |