Example sentences of "have an [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home and abroad , Mr Gorbachev has an awful lot to lose from a fight . |
| 2 | The container , on the other hand , with his tendency to dissociate , ‘ has an especial need to unify himself in an undivided love ’ , but finds the simpler personality of his partner does not complement and satisfy the diverse facets of his own . |
| 3 | CFS has an Accessory Bay dealing in a similar manner with starter motors , hydraulics and governors . |
| 4 | OLD salt Ebenezer Jones has an extra £10,000 to sprinkle around — thanks to Mirror Bingo . |
| 5 | Instead , the authority has an extra £2.78m taking its 1993–94 total to £3.43m . |
| 6 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 7 | I believe in my heart and soul that everyone has an equal responsibility to work together the peace and harmony of this world . |
| 8 | the prison system has a tendency to create more problems than it receives and has an equal tendency to fail inmates because , out of its survival fear , it tends to respond to corporate threats , real or imaginary , rather than the real problems of inmates . |
| 9 | You are now facing each other in a fully square-on position and each has an equal target profile ; furthermore , each has an equal opportunity to use body weapons . |
| 10 | It follows that a just society must set its policies and write its laws to ensure that everyone , beginning with the least advantaged and most vulnerable , has an equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total net resources allocated to health . |
| 11 | So long as everyone has an equal right to vote there must be a limit to the variations in prosperity in the community that are politically acceptable . |
| 12 | NCVQ , which has an overall responsibility to reform and rationalise all vocational qualifications in England , Wales and Northern Ireland exercises essentially an accrediting role through recognising as NVQs those qualifications which meet its criteria . |
| 13 | Each hotel has an environmental committee made up of staff and management , looking at new ideas and the company has started to win environmental awards . |
| 14 | In this case , the package has an additional reference attached to it and the whole article is known as a Product . |
| 15 | In this case , the package has an additional reference attached to it and the whole article is known as a Product . |
| 16 | But this particular species has an additional need to control the temperature within its habitations . |
| 17 | The fifth and final conclusion , is that , left to itself , capitalism has an inherent tendency to exacerbate inequalities of condition . |
| 18 | Thus , it shows that man has an inherent ability to overcome his misfortunes and that he is not dependent upon his material success . |
| 19 | He has an inherent desire to protect home and family and is an intelligent dog of extreme hardness and adaptability , with a strong willingness to work , making him especially suited as a companion , guardian and general all-purpose dog . |
| 20 | However , no artist has an inherent right to claim taxpayer support for his or her private vision of art if that vision mocks the moral and spiritual basis on which our society is founded . |
| 21 | Where the procedural matter in issue does not appear to be covered by any of the statutory provisions the court has an inherent jurisdiction to regulate its own procedure . |
| 22 | But there is no doubt that the court has an inherent jurisdiction to strike out any proceeding which is an abuse of its process ; and it is such an abuse to commence and maintain a proceeding which has no prospect whatever of success . |
| 23 | Distributed computing solution supplier Protek Ltd , Maidenhead , Berkshire , has an exclusive deal to peddle Tivoli products in the UK and provide training and support . |
| 24 | In my judgment this review of the authorities demonstrates that for over 300 years the law has been clearly established that the visitor of an eleemosynary charity has an exclusive jurisdiction to determine what are the internal laws of the charity and the proper application of those laws to those within his jurisdiction . |
| 25 | It was a port from Norman times to the 19th century , and has an 11th-century castle perched high on the cliffs above the River Wye and a pretty church with a Norman nave . |
| 26 | Martin Cruz Smith has an intriguing hero to play with ; if he could only Strive For a Decisive Upswing in Plot Design , his mastery of the chilly thriller would be complete . |
| 27 | A varied and interesting selection of aircraft old and new are featured in the film , which has an authoritative commentary provided by Raymond Baxter . |
| 28 | Here the detector is connected through a second closely coupled low-loss transformer , the primary of which has an adjustable tapping X' that divides it into sections with turns N' 1 and N' 2 . |
| 29 | British Rail has an ancient obligation to pay for its own police force . |
| 30 | The village has an ancient history dating back to Roman times ( the remains of a Roman wall testify to this ) . |