Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others are easy enough for beginners to have a go at . |
| 2 | One can define , for some probe order , the consistency measure Σ c f ∘ ( c ) for the total fit of all the clones to the probes , where f ∘ ( c ) is the fit of the clone c , either as defined above or extended to allow for probes having a length or being repetitive . |
| 3 | In this country , lead pipe was traditionally used for the water system ( the word ‘ plumbing ’ derives from the Latin word for lead ) , but this has now largely been replaced by copper , and an increasing number of houses have a copper plumbing system . |
| 4 | Here both foot-soldiers and officers were required , and indeed they still are : what churches call stewardship of talents has a place . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's very important for preparers of accounts to have a voice , and only the top 100 companies really have the resources to cope with the amount of time and effort that takes . |
| 6 | CALMS 's big snag is that only 73 per cent of homes have a phone . |
| 7 | More than 88pc of homes have a telephone , up from 75pc in 1982 . |
| 8 | I pointed Armstrong westwards but pulled over near a post office and a couple of shops to have a think . |
| 9 | As much as 85 per cent of cars had a radio , and over half were used whenever the car was driven . |
| 10 | The act created the concept of commercial contracts and of traders having a firm registered at the ‘ Firm Registry ’ and also dealt with partnerships , limited partnerships , joint-stock companies , and co-operatives ( which were considered to be business enterprises ) . |
| 11 | Rather surprisingly , the recent The Artist readership survey found that although the cast majority of readers have a video player , not everyone has purchased an instructional art tape . |
| 12 | It is thought that Mary Queen of Scots had an umbrella in the 1560s . |
| 13 | The reduction in the number of candidates had a side effect in that no count in 1975 went beyond 12 stages whereas in 1973 two counts reached 18 stages . |
| 14 | The great majority of molluscs have a minute , planktonic larval stage , a small ciliated object bearing no resemblance to the adult , that drifts as part of the plankton until ready to settle and assume its mature form . |
| 15 | The black grapes of Chouilly and the white grapes of Tours-sur-Marne have an échelle of 95% and 90% respectively , and as such may claim only premier cru status . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The grid of wires has a spacing of 100 micrometres |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the past all sorts of different kinds of buildings had a stone placed in the wall to show when they were built . |
| 20 | This most elegant of bridges has a centre span of 702 feet . |
| 21 | Linnaeus ' system of plants had a basis in arithmetic : he counted the male and female parts of the flower , and these figures placed it in its class . |
| 22 | Note that motors with a large number of phases have an advantage here , since a step length is a small proportion of the rotor tooth pitch [ Eqn . |
| 23 | That joke no doubt will appeal to all who question the value of accountants having a stranglehold on top jobs in Britain 's industry and commerce . |
| 24 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 25 | I think he 's has loads and loads of things had a lot 's and lot 's to eat |
| 26 | In the towns and cities , every block of flats had a Party representative , who reported to an area controller , who , in turn , was responsible to a district officer . |
| 27 | On the Marley system , the ends of gutters have a notch cut into them to fit the retaining clips at joints . |
| 28 | Secondly they require a listed company to obtain the consent of its shareholders if any of its major subsidiaries makes an issue for cash of securities having an equity element which would materially dilute the percentage equity interest of the company and its shareholders in that subsidiary . |
| 29 | In this study about a quarter of patients had a biopsy for a sole haematological abnormality . |
| 30 | Approximately 5% of patients have a risk of bleeding from gastric varices after successful obliteration of their oesophageal veins . |