Example sentences of "[noun sg] has a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 But the females compete for males because the male has a pouch literally on the front of his , of his belly , you know what a sea horse looks like , he looks like a horse actually , not surprisingly , you know they have this kind of , they have a kind of tail and they have this kind of pouch .
2 Such a male has a territory so much better than that of neighbours that a ‘ polygyny threshold ’ is surpassed and he gains a second mate .
3 Oh your mum has a day off on a Friday does she ?
4 The largest site on the alignment has a diameter about 1.5 mm and the square edge has a = b = W cm .
5 In some of the tests involving dykes , the host rock has a polarity opposite to that of the dykes ( Fig. 3 ) .
6 The SPD programme , with the slogan " The future has a name again : the SPD " , envisaged a social market economy which protected the socially disadvantaged .
7 Financially , and for security , the English scene has a bit more going for us at the moment .
8 The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment .
9 Child has a tantrum whenever she does not get her own way .
10 The Council has a policy now of bringing all its properties up to date , but priority because they 're , bringing the houses up to date will take some eight years , priority is given to elderly citizens and people with medical needs .
11 Furthermore , the director has a duty not to make a secret profit out of transactions with the company .
12 It is also fairly essential to ensure that your desktop publishing package has a route through to high quality output devices such as typesetting systems .
13 The curator has a house downstream there , among the trees — you can see the red roof .
14 Starting at the phase A equilibrium position ( 8=0 ) the rated current is established in phase A and the rotor has a velocity slightly greater than the demanded stepping rate .
15 New mothers in Czechoslovakia can look forward to three years ' maternity leave and the health service has a lot more going for it than ours , she says .
16 And that was the reason why , and in fact the total shortfall , the total unmanning was something like a hundred and thirty-five hundred and forty , which is why the police authority has a bid in at this moment for a , a further sixty-eight policemen , which has in fact been backed by the county council , who are prepared to pay for it .
17 This woman has a talent as big as her shoulder muscles .
18 The old zeks say that if a man has a nightmare then he should not be disturbed because the awakened life of the camps is more awful than the pain of any dream .
19 To its lenders and investors , the firm has a value only if it is earning more than its cost of capital .
20 ‘ From a spectator point of view and from a sponsor 's point of view , Indycar racing has a lot more to offer . ’
21 If the radiation has a wavelength longer than that of red light , it can not be seen , but it can be detected as infra-red and , with increased wavelength , radio radiation .
22 Smith 's monopoly has a bookstall there ; you can get cheap Kipling and Harmsworth to any extent and yet it is a theme for English idylls .
23 The restaurant has a loggia alongside for summer dining , and there is an attractive swimming pool around which guests can spend a relaxed and leisurely day , soaking up the sunshine and looking out to the rolling countryside all around .
24 I take the view that the doctor has a choice here in the absence of any clear guide , either to continue to treat or to stop .
25 The railway viaduct crossing the estuary of the Mawddach has a footpath alongside , and is partly of timber construction .
26 The Welsh shepherd 's chair on one side of the fireplace has a drawer underneath where the shepherd would keep his pipes ; the 17th-century Carmarthen chair on the other side is a particular favourite of Bill 's .
27 The sony has a touch too much Broadway slickness for my taste and , despite the presence of bigger name international stars , is not on the whole as well sung .
28 Their front end has a mouth below and a few light-sensitive spots above so that the animal can be said to have the beginnings of a head .
29 The public has a month more in which to make its feelings known .
30 It is known that , in vivo , half of the superhelical density is restrained by DNA-binding proteins , so that the free superhelical density has a value close to -0.025 ( 29 , 30 ) .
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