Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] has [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hazel peered closely into the thick , coarse hair ( a rabbit 's foot has no pads ) and after a few moments saw what he had expected — the oval shank Of a snapped-off thorn sticking out through the skin . |
| 2 | It does not try to turn a Scot into an Englishman , or suppose a recruit 's upbringing has no bearing on his suitability for officer training , or pretend that men and woman have identical abilities . |
| 3 | However , the Court of Appeal decided in Burton v Islington Health Authority [ 1992 ] 3 WLR 617 that at common law a child en ventre sa mρere and unborn at the time of the defendant 's negligence has a cause of action for injuries caused by that negligence . |
| 4 | Tudor Davies 's script has the style of an authentically naff pre-1914 original , up-dated by a sharper intelligence . |
| 5 | A foreman who spends most of his time riding herd on this week 's production quotas but who must also develop a program to deal with the labor requirements of next year 's retooling has a responsibility time span of a year or a little more . |
| 6 | The show exhibitor 's horse ‘ has presence and a smart way of going' ; the pony clubber 's horse may be ‘ willing and lovable' ; whereas the horse dealer 's horse has every virtue that anyone has ever heard of : ‘ What ya want , she 's got ! ’ |
| 7 | Although the club 's entrance has a night watchman , security could be a problem . |
| 8 | Much of Allen 's work has a fantasy element , she is continually intrigued by childhood memories , the resonance of children 's rhymes and stories ; works such as , ‘ If it Does n't Fit ’ was inspired by the fairytale the ‘ Princess and the Pea ’ . |
| 9 | Pakenham 's work has a feeling of transience about it , things are not firmly rooted , the people and the places all tumble into one another like great conjuring act with too many balls . |
| 10 | And yet it still seems questionable whether Scorsese 's work has the range and the depth which would properly carry him beyond celebrity to ‘ greatness ’ . |
| 11 | Nearly two-thirds of the world 's population has no access to electricity . |
| 12 | ‘ I think being in England 's group has a lot to do with it . |
| 13 | The Corrado also comes out on top for its firm and consistent braking — the Calibra 's pedal has an excess of free travel before anything happens — but the overly heavy servo action loses the VW some points . |
| 14 | Kim Barnett 's team has a degree of success to its credit , which has yet to be translated into prosperity on and off the field . |
| 15 | ( Mr Lilley 's package has a treatment for that , too : more publicity for companies ' spending on R&D — as though City analysts might be persuaded by the civil servants to give research more importance . ) |
| 16 | The fact that a woman 's body has a head on top of it is n't much more than a detail . |
| 17 | Even the pop consumer 's body has a history . |
| 18 | The beautiful opening on the Moscow River is delicate , grey , understated ; the introduction to Marfa 's conjuration has a murkiness that prepares for her entry with just the right atmosphere and weight . |
| 19 | And then , when I put the phone down again , it resumes its full natural flow , inside my head instead of outside , as perfectly articulate and well-modulated as only a voice inside one 's head has a chance to be . |
| 20 | While Kittay 's theory has the advantage that it allows metaphor to be seen as operating according to the same basic principles regardless of the size of the discursive unit in question , Brooke-Rose 's own examination of the mechanisms of the verb metaphor suggest a view that minimizes dependence on an implicit ‘ proper ’ term outside the text and emphasizes the metaphoric interactions between the terms themselves . |
| 21 | The Troll 's slime has no effect on hits from shooting . |
| 22 | Driving yourself to the Alps rather than taking the tour operator 's flight has a lot of attractions . |
| 23 | Second , the individual 's stance has a history : the ‘ attitude ’ is not fixed , but rhetorically unfolds as the historical context of controversy unfolds . |
| 24 | ‘ STEPHEN STREET 'S music has a crispness to it that The Smiths never managed . |
| 25 | Which soloist 's Jaguar has the registration number DEG 5Y ? |
| 26 | It must be concluded , despite the ingenuity of Lanham 's thesis , that Hale 's rationale has no foundation . |
| 27 | Halley 's comet has an eccentricity of about 0.9675 permitting it to visit us every 76 years . |
| 28 | This states that , where a player commits an act of foul play which has not been detected by the match officials , that player 's union has the discretion to cite that player to show cause why he should not be held accountable in the same way as a player who has been ordered off the field of play . |
| 29 | In the USA it is not uncommon for the recordings themselves to be broadcast on domestic television or radio in news or current affairs programmes , while in Australia , at the other extreme , the pilot 's union has an agreement that the CVR will not even be examined by official investigators unless the flight crew are killed . |
| 30 | Children need someone unconditionally and permanently committed to them , and it is difficult to see why a parent who takes no responsibility for a child 's care has a right to prevent someone else from doing so . |