Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a special [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the Department of Printed Books , the British Antiquarian Division has a special responsibility for the Library 's collection of older books . |
| 2 | And the college has a special unit for people who want basic education anyone who is not numerate or wants help with reading or writing in a one-to-one lesson . |
| 3 | Of these , two were not immutable patient characteristics — access to a hospital dietitian reduced the random haemoglobin A 1 value by a mean of 1.06% , and the general practitioner having a special interest in diabetes reduced it by 0.86% . |
| 4 | It is not clear that the rules in Common Law and Equity were quite the same on these subjects ; but , at any rate , Equity had a special protection for the party who had suffered . |
| 5 | The secret underground passage has a special place in the imagination of the English people . |
| 6 | Indeed the psychiatrist who first popularised the notion that hypnosis has a special relationship with truth , no less a figure than Sigmund Freud , later issued a retraction . |
| 7 | The five-speed has a special chamber in the rear casing accessed by a valve which opens when the oil temperature reaches 90deg C. Up to 550cc of oil is bled off into the chamber , which means the increase in depth in the main casing is reduced to 15 to 20mm . |
| 8 | The problem of how the digger wasp locates her home has a special place in the history of ethology : it was one of the first questions about behaviour mechanisms ever to be asked , and experimentally answered . |
| 9 | Koch has a special reason for wanting to beat Dennis Conner for the right to defend the America 's Cup . |
| 10 | Because of his responsibilities for taxation as well as the banking system and building societies , the Chancellor had a special interest in the subject of financial fraud . |
| 11 | Harmony has a special fascination for many of us , but once again I would warn students against thinking of harmonies before they have conceived the melody . |
| 12 | Bukharin 's work The Economics of the Transition Period has a special place in his writings and in relation to the period in which it was written . |
| 13 | The site has a special significance for Icelanders , whose independence has been compromised on several occasions over the years . |
| 14 | In some closely defined circumstances , however , where it can be shown that a particular racial group has a special need with regard to education or training , access to facilities may be restricted or allocated first to its members . |
| 15 | It seems that the requirement of special damage may be satisfied by potential damage , and it may be possible to rephrase the requirement in terms of the plaintiff having a special interest in or concern with the challenged action . |
| 16 | We spent a lot of time in the National Gallery and at the Tate , and wrote some poems about the pictures there , including Verrocchio 's Tobias and the Angel , Piero di Cosima 's Mythological Subject and Titian 's Christ Appearing to the Magdalen — Noli me Tangere , whose theme had a special significance for me now : Dana was Christ , and I was the Magdalen . |
| 17 | It is , in particulars the unnerving intellectuality of the life around him that Hölderlin attacks , the overvaluation of philosophizing and the promise of action that never comes , the substitution of books and words for deeds , the excessive introspection and lack of worldly competence ( the criticism has a special poignancy in that these are character traits he is intimately familiar with , which at times become part of his self-criticism ) When he speaks of Greece , it is not always clear whether he has in mind the fifth century or the timeless present in which Hyperion lives , but it is always Greece that provides the contrast . |
| 18 | This revolution has a special relevance to the current British debate on the health of the nation . |
| 19 | The dog has a special relationship with man and is described as his best friend . |
| 20 | This endearing creature has a special place in our countryside lore ; in the past , it was believed to suckle from sleeping cows , to be immune to snake bites , and to pick up fallen apples by rolling on them . |
| 21 | ( 5 ) The definition of acting in concert has a special significance in relation to mandatory offers . |
| 22 | A hirer has a special property in the goods bailed and it follows that the assignment of such an interest is not a sale . |
| 23 | ( This tale has a special popularity in the UK , where the vehicle in question is always a Mini , though versions have cropped up in Australia and the USA . ) |
| 24 | And it 's also known that breastmilk has a special value for babies most vulnerable to infection , for example those born ill or premature . |
| 25 | So , every instructor has a special responsibility towards such people . |
| 26 | For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection . |
| 27 | In modern conditions the only remaining peg on which to hang the concession theory 's claim that the state has a special right of intervention in company affairs is the idea that since separate personality and limited liability are benefits conferred by the state , the state is entitled to intervene to safeguard the public interest as a quid pro quo . |
| 28 | The Waterbase brush has a special mix of synthetic filaments designed for optimum paint pick-up . |
| 29 | For example , many studies have shown that language is vulnerable to left , but not right , hemisphere damage in most people , suggesting that the left hemisphere has a special role in language . |
| 30 | The British Government have a special responsibility in this matter , because British manufacture cluster bombs are being used by the Yugoslav air force , which is de facto a Serbian air force , to attack civilian targets . |