Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] has [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal on 9 August 1989 found that a trial judge has no power to empanel a multiracial jury , even if he believes to do so would be right in the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 2 | Conventionalism denies this : a conventionalist judge has no reason for acknowledging consistency in principle as a judicial virtue or for dissecting ambiguous statutes or inexact precedents to try to achieve it . |
| 3 | Another situation where the obligation will be imposed is where a person discusses his ideas with business organizations with a view to the commercial exploitation of those ideas ; for example , if a computer analyst has an idea for a new computer system and discusses that idea with software houses interested in developing and marketing the system . |
| 4 | In health a cell membrane has a resting potential of around + 90 mV ( millivolts ) . |
| 5 | In this typical example of scientific doublespeak , the burden of proof is , as usual , thrown on to conservationists to show that a fishing technique has an unacceptable effect , rather than on the fishing nations to show that the method is ecologically sound . |
| 6 | A ring laser has a further degeneracy : each longitudinal mode frequency supports a pair of counterpropagating modes , which will ordinarily have the same threshold , and thus both be excited . |
| 7 | For example , when storing information about employees academic qualifications , does one really need to know that a Research Chemist has a CSE in woodwork ? |
| 8 | It can be argued that a car dealer has an implied obligation to make pre-delivery checks on a new car to ensure that it meets the manufacturer 's specification . |
| 9 | A telephone call has the advantage of giving a personalised response , and yet is relatively inexpensive and not time consuming . |
| 10 | A parent company has a 30% interest in an associated company . |
| 11 | A parent company has the additional facility of being able to surrender ACT for use by its 51% subsidiaries . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) The chairman of a licensing board has a second or casting vote when the voting in connection with a decision by the board is equal except where the matter being decided is the grant or provisional grant of a new licence . |
| 13 | A specialist nursery has the advantage that it can advise on the growing conditions in which the herb does best and advice may be available on the various ways of using it . |
| 14 | In the case of brightness masking , however , the situation will be completely different because , since a brightness mask has no features , it will not cause any feature-detectors to respond . |
| 15 | This large system , designed for a SUN workstation has the following main elements : an intelligent user interface ; an information system including knowledge bases , databases , inference machine and database management system ; a simulation system ; a DSS . |
| 16 | I think the idea is that Sun is that they see it as somebody 's gone poof poof want to be to write quickly and they would argue that a Sun reader has a sharp attention span . |
| 17 | 2.3 " Adjoining Property " means any neighbouring or adjoining land or premises ( excluding the remainder of the Centre ) in which the Landlord or a Group Company has a freehold or leasehold interest or in which during the Term the Landlord or a Group Company shall have acquired a freehold or leasehold interest There is no objection to this provided that the existence of any adjoining property does not have an adverse effect on the tenant 's contribution towards service charges or other costs referred to in the lease and the tenant should therefore be vigilant in this regard when amending the lease . |
| 18 | A hit from a Repeater Pistol has a strength of 4 regardless of the firer 's strength , and the extra -1 armour penetration applies as with shooting . |
| 19 | Provided a mains transformer has a single primary winding there should be no difficulty in wiring up this section of the supply . |
| 20 | If a mains transformer has a secondary rated at 9V , 100mA , does this refer to the a.c. output or the d.c. after rectification ? |
| 21 | A sound wave has a much greater chance of being scattered and absorbed by such dense vegetation . |
| 22 | A sound guide has an edge over the printed page , since the listener is looking at what is being described , interpreted and judged . |
| 23 | A taxi driver has the solution : " They should treat pirates and dogs on the course the same way , " he tells me . |
| 24 | ( For example if a UK bank has a credit balance in its NOSTRO account , this will be ‘ reflected ’ by a debit balance in the mirror account of the same value ) . |
| 25 | When a sailing ship has a fair wind , even though it be a gale , the loads in her rigging are moderate . |
| 26 | A pragmatist judge has no direct reason for worrying , as the judges in Elmer 's case worried , about the intentions of the legislators who first adopted the New York statute of wills . |
| 27 | For example , a breaking wave has a form which is not random , because it is repeated as each successive wave breaks , but the shape is in no sense deducible from the shape of a water molecule : if the sea was made of alcohol , the waves would be much the same shape . |
| 28 | To put it another way , if the principal element is an E , then the complex produced by such an extension remains an E ; and if the main element is a P , then the complex is a P. Qualification has the effect of indicating that the subordinate element is to be used in the identification of a single entity or of a single property corresponding to the complex as a whole . |
| 29 | ‘ Just as a trading company has a trading reputation which it is entitled to protect by bringing an action for defamation , so in my view the plaintiffs as a local government corporation have a ‘ governing ’ reputation which they are equally entitled to protect in the same way — of course , bearing in mind the vital distinction between defamation of the corporation as such and defamation of its individual officers or members . |
| 30 | But a trading corporation has a trading reputation which it is entitled to protect : see the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co. case . |