Example sentences of "has a [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM has a conflict of interests between the AS/400 and RS/6000 ’ . |
| 2 | You should not take on a case if you or your firm has a conflict of interest . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | This time , the Third World has a lever of sorts in its willingness , or unwillingness , to co-operate , but one of limited value since co-operation in drawing up a climate convention is ultimately as much in the interests of the poor nations as it is in those of the rich . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Profitboss has a vision of success and he 's determined to realize it . |
| 7 | This is particularly so with Sennelier ink , which has a binder of acrylic , resins and shellac which dries hard . |
| 8 | I was just there for Type ninety , and he has a wall of books in his living room that — the shells are some kind of Danish wall system from nineteen fifty-five and it seemed , you know , that the shelves were slightly saggy , a few nicks and scrapes , so it 's not new looking at all . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But bad news has a way of travelling . " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has a kind of backbone , in the form of the flexible rod , but it does not have jaws . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The new President already has a legion of critics who find him shallow and lacking in principle . |
| 16 | His three heads represent the past , present and future ; his spittle poisons and burns the earth ; he has a mane of snakes and a serpent 's tail ; his eyes are watchful and his ears are constantly pricked , listening for newcomers as he admits the dead and devours the still-living . |
| 17 | Luckily he has a stash of stones with which to protect himself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The UK/I group has a Head of Group and Head of Area Staff . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A true geodesic has a criss-cross of poles which gives greater stability in high winds |
| 22 | A small group of islands off Thailand even has a genus of langur monkeys unknown anywhere else in the Oriental Region . |
| 23 | BRITAIN 'S typical executive is male , 44 years old and has a salary of £30,355 ( including £4,826 in bonus pay ) , according to a comprehensive annual survey conducted by P-E Inbucon , writes Sarah Hogg . |
| 24 | It will be noticed that the personal sector has a surplus of receipts over expenditure of £500 million , the public sector has a deficit of £1,500 million , the external sector has a surplus amounting to £1,000 million , and the industrial and commercial sector is in balance . |
| 25 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |
| 26 | Throughout its geographical range , Nucella lapillus has a choice of prey species . |
| 27 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
| 28 | AFTER being ill-served for many years by the investment industry , the small investor at last has a choice of funds which follow share indices . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Our aim is to ensure that anyone who is unemployed for more than six months has a choice of job experience or training . |