Example sentences of "have a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should not take on a case if you or your firm has a conflict of interest . |
| 2 | In addition to gender distinctions in specific semantic areas , English also has a category of person which distinguishes in the third-person singular between masculine , feminine , and inanimate ( he/she/it ) . |
| 3 | The Forum has a Council of Management drawn from organisations with an interest in the nuclear industry , such as British Nuclear Fuels Ltd , UKAEA , Shell Nuclear , Whessoe Heavy Engineering , Fairey Engineering , GEC , Tube Investments , Vickers , Sir Robert McAlpine , the Central Electricity Generating Board , the South of Scotland Electricity Board , Kleinwort Benson and the British Insurance Committee . |
| 4 | The Profitboss has a vision of success and he 's determined to realize it . |
| 5 | This is particularly so with Sennelier ink , which has a binder of acrylic , resins and shellac which dries hard . |
| 6 | A classical ballet has a style of dance based on certain accepted principles and rules laid down by french , Russian , Danish , Italian and more recent schools . |
| 7 | But bad news has a way of travelling . " |
| 8 | In the second sentence , which has a grain of ambiguity , grammar and meaning do not provide sufficient information for us to neglect the visual analysis . |
| 9 | It has a kind of backbone , in the form of the flexible rod , but it does not have jaws . |
| 10 | I , I mean it may not be right , but it , I mean as I think you can see it has a kind of logic about it , erm and , and i it may be that it , it 's not the right explanation , but the very fact that erm we 're suggesting it , I think shows that erm again it 's naive to think that motherhood is a kind of er is a one-sided affair where you know mothers sacrifice themselves er for their offspring , because nature demands it . |
| 11 | He 's about my height but he 's filled out a bit since he came here and he has a kind of stoop now which makes him look smaller and older than he is . |
| 12 | For example , a third of the population of the London Borough of Brent has a head of household born in the New Commonwealth , as does a quarter of the London Borough of Ealing , and a fifth of Leicester and of Slough . |
| 13 | The UK/I group has a Head of Group and Head of Area Staff . |
| 14 | Rho has a spectrum of type F8 , and is slightly ‘ off-white ’ ; I have even recorded it as perceptibly orange , which is unusual for an F-star . |
| 15 | A small group of islands off Thailand even has a genus of langur monkeys unknown anywhere else in the Oriental Region . |
| 16 | Throughout its geographical range , Nucella lapillus has a choice of prey species . |
| 17 | Successful multi-stack designs are often produced with additional stacks , so that the user has a choice of step length , e.g. a three-stack , sixteen rotor tooth motor gives a step of 7.5 degrees and by introducing an extra stack ( with consequent reorientation of the other stacks ) a 5.625 degree step is available . |
| 18 | Our aim is to ensure that anyone who is unemployed for more than six months has a choice of job experience or training . |
| 19 | The word processor also has a couple of bonus features — a thesaurus and spell checker based on the concise versions from Harper Collins . |
| 20 | This unit has a depth of sound that is difficult to describe , indicating that those nine 12AX7s must be cooking to very good effect indeed . |
| 21 | Mr MacGregor 's discussion paper has a tinge of greenery , but its main interest is conveyed by its title : ‘ Paying for Better Motorways . ’ |
| 22 | The Toyota has a pair of Simulknit levers labelled 0 and S. These should be on S for Simulknit and O for everything else . |
| 23 | The swimming mollusc Nautilus , a rather strange squid-like creature that lives in a shell like the extinct ammonites and belemnites ( see the " shelled cephalopod " of Figure 5 ) , has a pair of pinhole cameras for eyes . |
| 24 | Andy has a pair of wellington boots . |
| 25 | If A has a pair of conjugate complex eigenvalues , then T is not strictly upper triangular : the diagonal includes a block of order 2 such as unc with unc on the diagonal of T and unc below it . |
| 26 | The city already has a shortage of hotel rooms . |
| 27 | It has a shortage of office space , soaring property prices , huge traffic problems and relatively high unemployment . |
| 28 | He has a disdain of showiness . |
| 29 | If I move as privately as possible , it is to hold off the fools and rogues until the thing has a chance of success . |
| 30 | In this condition its mobility is severely hampered , but it still has a chance of survival if its environment is benign . |