Example sentences of "have a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain now has a louder voice in world affairs that needs to be backed by a coherent national military strategy . |
| 2 | Cummings suggests that the microcomputer is a powerful generator of discussion which should be fostered and not ignored and states that Language has a triple function in education : for communication as a thinking tool and a shaper of leanings . |
| 3 | The Kaiser Corporation has a similar deal in New Zealand . |
| 4 | But Merck , the world 's top drugs firm , already has a similar product in the market that is good at its job . |
| 5 | " You know , she has a similar set-up in Rome and also in Paris , a little creche where she can go and queen it once a year . |
| 6 | She now has a similar job in a related field . |
| 7 | The FAA has a similar duty in the USA , as have equivalent organisations in almost every country throughout the world . |
| 8 | The place of coal in the NEP appears to be to generate electricity instead of oil , although whether it has a long-term future in this rôle or is merely a useful stopgap is unclear . |
| 9 | A spokesman for Warrington Borough Transport said : ‘ The company has a no-smoking policy in force on all buses . |
| 10 | The Olau Hollandia has a pocket-sized swimming-pool in the bowels , luxurious cabins aloft and couchette-style below . |
| 11 | The court now has a wide power in personal injury actions to order , of its own motion and at any stage in the proceedings , that issues of liability be tried before quantum ( Ord 33 , r4 ( 2A ) ) . |
| 12 | ‘ She has a successful business in London . |
| 13 | The Genesis flood story has a recognizable background in Mesopotamia , and the numerous similarities suggest it is a record of the same event as the Babylonian . |
| 14 | The company now has a new chairman in George Cox ; a new managing director of consulting in Peter Smith ; and a new finance director , Mike Wale . |
| 15 | TATUM O'Neal has a new man in her life following her rift with husband John McEnroe , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 16 | MacGregor has a new interest in coal as he is due to take over shortly as chairman of the National Coal Board . |
| 17 | It has a strategic significance in bridging the gap between women 's unpaid and unacknowledged domestic work and that which is rewarded by ( albeit low ) wages . |
| 18 | The Bank of England has a pivotal role in the London money market in that it acts as the main banker to both the central government and the clearing banks . |
| 19 | Richard Martin 's comment on Walter Abish has a general relevance in this context . |
| 20 | I 'm thinking , for example , it 's not a medicine as such , but I 'm thinking of the birth control pill , which presumably has a possible effect in its particular form over a period perhaps twenty years , rather than five years , on a person . |
| 21 | The aim of this study is to investigate whether a subclinical impairment of the autonomic nervous system is present in patients with slow transit idiopathic constipation , and whether it has a possible role in the pathogenesis of this motility disorder . |
| 22 | The fact that this AL has a collective dimension in addition to the personal one was mentioned in the early part of this chapter . |
| 23 | It has a collective leadership in the form of an organisational bureau . |
| 24 | This has a singular effect in travelling through the country : the eye seems ever on the verge of a forest which is as it were by enchantment continually changing into inclosures and hedgerows . |
| 25 | The lower equilibrium price in Germany shows that it has a comparative advantage in producing this good . |
| 26 | Where there is no trust beneficiary who has a beneficial interest in possession in the property , of course , some other way of fixing the rate has to be found ; and in the case of Gartside v IRC ( 1968 ) AC 553 the House of Lords has held that where there was a discretionary trust with a power to accumulate income , the interest of the group of beneficiaries did not constitute an ‘ interest in possession ’ for the purposes of estate duty . |
| 27 | This can often be dealt with by notifying the individual of the meeting and its purpose and saying that he will be welcome to attend if he feels that he has a specific interest in the proceedings . |
| 28 | The department also has a specific interest in ensuring N C V O is sensitive to the needs of rural areas , and rural voluntary organisations . |
| 29 | The power of Parliament will be limited where a government has a working majority in the House of Commons . |
| 30 | Erm , er , the funding for that project which I understand has a total cost in excess of a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , has been met from a variety of sources , er , primarily local , but with a contribution from the County Council through the Leisure Services Committee , and also through the Resources Management sub-committee , and in a , indirect sense , in that the , the , the land transferred to the County Council from the District Council for a particular sum , when the project did n't go ahead , the land went back to the District , and had appreciated in value in the intervening time . |