Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] has [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some 40 per cent of women with gonorrhoea are found to harbour the bug in the rectum and it is clear that in only a minority of cases has the gonococcus been ‘ placed ’ there .
2 Here both foot-soldiers and officers were required , and indeed they still are : what churches call stewardship of talents has a place .
3 However , it is also obvious that the power of GIS has the potential dramatically to increase both the magnitude and importance of errors in spatial databases .
4 A poem with a very regular beat is one which is strongly organised hierarchically , so that there is metrical organisation beyond the line ; each line , stanza and possibly group of stanzas has a beat which is its strongest metrically , up to the stanza level or possibly even higher , as in many nursery rhymes , for example .
5 The grid of wires has a spacing of 100 micrometres
6 In a square matrix A of order n the array of elements has a determinant unc which is in general nonzero : this implies that the columns ( and the rows ) are linearly independent , so that there is no nonzero column vector x such that Ax vanishes .
7 This most elegant of bridges has a centre span of 702 feet .
8 A second group of statements has the distinction that their truth-values do not depend on whether there does exist a thing called for by a contained referring expression .
9 The second point is that the writing of objectives has a purpose .
10 As well as tidying up the whole system , it re-affirms that the doctrine of saints has a place , but not the central place , in Catholic piety .
11 Issuing bonds in the form of eurobonds has a number of advantages ( discussed below ) and this method of issue has now become the dominant one .
12 The change in the logarithm of prices has the advantage of being scale-independent .
13 Whereas Fredegar relates the tale of the encounter with the Quinotaur , in the corresponding section of his Histories the bishop of Tours has an outburst against idolatry .
14 It has been held that the owner of a swarm of bees has no right to follow it onto another man 's land , but this is of no general assistance for , once the bees get onto that land they become again ferae naturae and the property of no one .
15 Every household of eunuchs has a network of informers — sweepers , dhobis , midwives — who report back the imminent births and marriages in their district .
16 Thus we might expect to find that the giving of grades has a crop of side effects peculiarly its own .
17 Alliterate : witty Whicker 's wonderful way with words has a lot to answer for .
18 For these reasons , I am of the opinion that Wickes ' argument that the council should be required to give an undertaking in damages has no justification in Community law .
19 Our reading from Galatians has an element of each in it .
20 A legally aided party who is successful in proceedings has a duty to claim costs if it would be in the interests of a paying client to do so in the same circumstances .
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