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

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1 Here both foot-soldiers and officers were required , and indeed they still are : what churches call stewardship of talents has a place .
2 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 .
3 The grid of wires has a spacing of 100 micrometres
4 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 .
5 This most elegant of bridges has a centre span of 702 feet .
6 The second point is that the writing of objectives has a purpose .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Every household of eunuchs has a network of informers — sweepers , dhobis , midwives — who report back the imminent births and marriages in their district .
10 Thus we might expect to find that the giving of grades has a crop of side effects peculiarly its own .
11 Alliterate : witty Whicker 's wonderful way with words has a lot to answer for .
12 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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