Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal excursion is to the churches and ruins of Old Goa , which in the sixteenth century had a population more than twice the size of London . |
| 2 | The use of monophony in octaves is much more frequent , and is in fact an excellent contrast to homophony ( Example 66 ) : Here , the first phrase in octaves is highly dynamic , but the sudden burst of harmony in the second bar has a strength and vitality which goes beyond what could have been achieved in octaves ; the effect is striking . |
| 3 | The second moment has a value which is the square of the standard deviation of the distribution : |
| 4 | The second record has a probability of 1/N of becoming a synonym . |
| 5 | Note , in the second bar , that it is the 2nd clarinet which completes the chord on the flutes because the 1st clarinet has a solo passage in the next bar . |
| 6 | This flexibility allows a typical student entering second year to have a choice of honours degree courses between Engineering disciplines or between Engineering and a science subject . |
| 7 | As the visitors pushed forward Ferguson was unlucky for the second time to have a effort cleared off the line , this time by Birney . |
| 8 | I am sure too , that this safety-first instinct has a lot to do with the fact that big bream are rarely caught from small bays , those semi-circular enclosures which are so appealing to the angler 's eye , and such deadly traps for the use of a pack of predators . |
| 9 | However , since menstrual cycles can be irregular First Response has a refill kit to enable a further three days ' tests , which allows nine out of 10 ovulating women to detect their surge . |
| 10 | First Response have a freephone help-line , manned by trained advisors , which you can ring on for more specialist , individual advice on using both tests . |
| 11 | Will he ensure that everything possible is done so that Derbyshire can have its first opportunity to have a university , in contrast with Nottingham which will have two , Leicester which will have three , and Loughborough which will have one ? |
| 12 | North America became the first continent to have a rail line from coast to coast when the Central Pacific met the Union Pacific in May 1869 . |
| 13 | In Gulliver 's Travels ( Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ) , 2 vols. , 1726–27 , the true first edition has a frontispiece oval portrait with an inscription set in two lines beneath the oval , not round it . |
| 14 | I soon discovered that those in the first group had a poise and confidence that the rest of us did not . |
| 15 | In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will . |
| 16 | The first wall had a stile in it of stone slabs set like a crude staircase at intervals into the sides , rough with golden lichen . |
| 17 | Is she the first woman to have a baby ? |
| 18 | The first approach has a number of limitations . |
| 19 | Notice that the first syllable has a stress mark ; this is important . |
| 20 | In addition , it sometimes seems as if some tone-units ( though only a small number ) contain not one but two tonic syllables , almost always with the first syllable having a fall on it and the other a rise . |
| 21 | At the Commons at 27 , the first Welsh woman MP joined her father , her brother Gwilym , newly elected for Pembroke , and a relative , Major Goronwy Owen , MP for Caernarfonshire , in a unique family group , LG becoming the first MP to have a son and daughter in the Commons simultaneously . |
| 22 | In the new domains such as foreign policy , the commission will for the first time have a right to propose . |
| 23 | 1.6 Suppose the Von Neumann computer had n input devices , the ith device having a device flag register DF ; and a device buffer register DBi . |
| 24 | The nth record has a probability ( n — 1 ) /N of becoming a synonym . |
| 25 | The next building has a funfair quality . |
| 26 | It may be convenient for the last record to have a pointer which points to the first record in that list , in which case the list is a circular list , ring or chain ( see Figure 5.11 ) . |
| 27 | He was very cautious — the last person to have a whirlwind anything , let alone romance . ’ |
| 28 | So , so used to your sort of third week having a day off in the week . |
| 29 | Hewitt last week had a pot removed after suffering a suspected broken wrist in training , while Robinson is suffering from an ankle sprain . |
| 30 | But you really do need to be seen next week to have a look at the initial blood results , the chest X-ray , more importantly , how are you getting on . |