Example sentences of "have [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has rather a thing about patchwork . |
| 2 | As the above photograph suggests , American artist , photographer and video-maker William Wegman has rather a penchant for doggies of all shapes and sizes , and his work is positively littered with them . |
| 3 | To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience . |
| 4 | The famous " Big Mac " has only a fraction of the vitamin B content it should have . |
| 5 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 6 | The town , sprawling along the side of Lake Managua , has only a handful of buildings over one storey and is without any identifiable centre . |
| 7 | This is the route that Data Logic thought IBM was originally treading , a CICS/Open strategy in which the OLTP environment , plus the wealth of CICS applications already available , could be brought to the open systems market which has only a handful of fledgling OLTP technologies to offer , and few software packages . |
| 8 | Having done so , it then regrows its tail , though it is not always as long as the original and internally it is quite different , for instead of bony vertebrae , it has only a tube of cartilage . |
| 9 | This international co-operation between clearinghouses does not preclude international co-operation on an individual library basis , nor does it mean that the Australian , UK and USA clearinghouses will not provide a service to individual libraries in another country which has or has not a clearinghouse of its own . |
| 10 | It is a wild and mischievous allegation , for which the hon. Lady has not a shadow of evidence . |
| 11 | Having inundated us with Mozart last season , it has not a note of Rossini this summer . |
| 12 | Score card has always a target of four thousand pound . |
| 13 | country carrier , a ‘ lumbering , slow , honest ’ fellow and devoted husband of the much younger Mary ( called Dot ) , who is very domesticated but has also a capacity for managing other people 's affairs ; to wit , those of Edward Plummer and May Fielding , who , but for Dot 's secret intervention , would have married the disagreeable Tackleton . |
| 14 | These days it has also a dependency in the mountains beyond , a winter-sports and high-summer Annexe , called Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin , at 5 , 500 feet . |
| 15 | Repairing electric motors is hardly a growth business ( British Coal is not the only customer in long-term decline ) and Dowding already has about a quarter of the market . |
| 16 | ( Coincidentally the town of Alma-Ata has now a population of over one million and is in Kazakhstan ) . |
| 17 | He has n't a chance of getting his wish and leaving Manchester United ! |
| 18 | There 's a stigma attached to the stay-at-home mum , as if she has n't a brain between the ears ! |
| 19 | But I wo n't — because I do n't believe he killed the family nanny and he has n't a hope of proving his innocence . |
| 20 | Your friend Devlin has n't a hope of getting you out , of course , but we 'd love him to try . ’ |
| 21 | and they absconded it , and the dog has n't a hope in hell and also the ones you get for the kids , when you sit in them they sit up like little chairs do n't they ? |
| 22 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 23 | He smiles a lot , talks to himself and uses a tennis court like an officer patrolling it , owning it and thumping around it as if he has n't a care in the world . |
| 24 | She 's has n't a soul in the world barring her sister who came down and identified the bodies . ’ |
| 25 | Of course it 's only a rummage-search , but as far as we 've gone , there 's nothing in that boat at all that has n't a right to be there . ’ |
| 26 | Denis , who has n't been on stage for decades , has n't a nerve in his body . |
| 27 | The bus has quite a history of service and is described in the Autumn 1992 edition of the ‘ Swanage Railway News ’ , just published and obtainable from the bookshop at Swanage Station . |
| 28 | It is heavily influenced by Richard Strauss and Wagner , but it is by no means absurdly derivative : in fact Schillings has quite a flair for arresting harmonic ideas . |
| 29 | Onslow 's has quite a scoop with the keys of Ernest Hemming , lamp-trimmer — each stamped Titanic and estimated at £4,000 ; it also has a doll found floating around the wreck and which was mistaken for the body of a child , at £1,500/3,000 . |
| 30 | I think centenary park has quite a ring to it . |