Example sentences of "[det] [conj] a [noun sg] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 2 | What is the ‘ essence ’ or ‘ nature ’ of a horse , and why does it follow from this that a horse has a certain type of head or feet , or lives to the age it does ? |
| 3 | It 's very important you 're taught that , er such feelings as respect , love , emotions all come into this and a woman has a right to say no , if she does n't |
| 4 | ‘ I am afraid , Your Highness , ’ said Mahmoud stiffly , ‘ that once a case has been opened — ’ |
| 5 | The ground resolution of a TM image is such that a pixel has about a 30 m side , which seems appropriate for the scale of analysis used . |
| 6 | The famous German raid on Coventry on the night of 14 November 1940 brought widespread devastation and civilian demoralisation ( such that a cordon had to be thrown round the city , and news from it heavily censored ) ; likewise , the bombing of the East End of London intimidated its inhabitants far more than the government dared admit at the time . |
| 7 | She might have said as much if a cat had died . |
| 8 | All that a child has a right to claim from his father is nourishment and education and the things nature furnishes for the support of life but he has no right to demand rule or dominion from him . |
| 9 | And it does that because a wind has sprung up , you ca n't see it but you can observe its effect . |
| 10 | The programmatic development of the Copernican theory over more than a century has already provided us with one example . |
| 11 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |
| 12 | ‘ Numbers waiting more than a year have already been significantly reduced from 367 to 293 at the end of January , ’ said Mr Flook . |
| 13 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 14 | The number of people out of work for more than a year has more than doubled since long-term unemployment began rising in October 1990 . |
| 15 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 16 | ALTHOUGH more than a week has passed since Hanson bought 2.82% of Britain 's ICI , the only certainty about that stake is that the world 's fourth-largest chemicals company will never be the same again . |
| 17 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 18 | A cyclist held in prison in Nepal on forgery charges for more than a month has been released . |
| 19 | Never mind that numbers waiting for less than a year have risen , bringing the total number on waiting lists to almost a million — a new record high . |