Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a special [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The pistol shrimp has a special claw which is held open at the hinge by two discs bound by suction .
2 Within the Department of Printed Books , the British Antiquarian Division has a special responsibility for the Library 's collection of older books .
3 ( b ) Goods sold by description and reliance If the description has a special trade usage , the goods may have to comply with the specialised meaning if this is part of the contractual intention .
4 The ideal of self-government has a special aspect that integrity promotes directly , and noticing this will lead us into our main discussion of legitimacy and political obligation .
5 The Legal Practice Directorate has a special unit dedicated to providing assistance to the profession and enquiries should be directed to Clive Baldon at the practice support unit , LDE 56 .
6 The engine , which runs on unleaded petrol , is the all-British , award-winning 1.4k series and the car has a special sports suspension for a smooth , easy ride .
7 In Japanese , friendship has a special character , the character tomo which appears in our name .
8 And the college has a special unit for people who want basic education anyone who is not numerate or wants help with reading or writing in a one-to-one lesson .
9 Of these , two were not immutable patient characteristics — access to a hospital dietitian reduced the random haemoglobin A 1 value by a mean of 1.06% , and the general practitioner having a special interest in diabetes reduced it by 0.86% .
10 It is not clear that the rules in Common Law and Equity were quite the same on these subjects ; but , at any rate , Equity had a special protection for the party who had suffered .
11 responding to requests for information from the general public on issues with which the Campaign has a special interest or expertise ;
12 The secret underground passage has a special place in the imagination of the English people .
13 Indeed the psychiatrist who first popularised the notion that hypnosis has a special relationship with truth , no less a figure than Sigmund Freud , later issued a retraction .
14 Each integrated circuit has a special function , such as memory for example .
15 If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great .
16 If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great .
17 The five-speed has a special chamber in the rear casing accessed by a valve which opens when the oil temperature reaches 90deg C. Up to 550cc of oil is bled off into the chamber , which means the increase in depth in the main casing is reduced to 15 to 20mm .
18 The problem of how the digger wasp locates her home has a special place in the history of ethology : it was one of the first questions about behaviour mechanisms ever to be asked , and experimentally answered .
19 Koch has a special reason for wanting to beat Dennis Conner for the right to defend the America 's Cup .
20 If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great .
21 If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great .
22 Each individual piece of equipment has a special contribution to make ; for example , a tape recorder can be equally effective in stimulating discussion as a film , but films or video tapes are more effective for the demonstration of practical skills where movement is essential .
23 In the wake of the impressive list of meetings that the Secretary of State will be attending for the remainder of this year , will he encourage the Security Council to have a special meeting , after Britain 's anticipated endorsement of the Van den Stoel resolution on the destruction of human rights within Iraq at least to ensure that human rights monitors are in south Iraq to protect the unfortunate Shias ?
24 She remarked how each definable function of the household had a special room set aside for it , for example there were dining rooms , parlours and drawing rooms , and serving pantries , pantries and sculleries .
25 Because of his responsibilities for taxation as well as the banking system and building societies , the Chancellor had a special interest in the subject of financial fraud .
26 Harmony has a special fascination for many of us , but once again I would warn students against thinking of harmonies before they have conceived the melody .
27 Each place has a special story to tell and offers a new experience of history : from neolithic man to Roman invasion , from William the Conqueror to the Civil War , from the Restoration to Queen Victoria and beyond .
28 Bukharin 's work The Economics of the Transition Period has a special place in his writings and in relation to the period in which it was written .
29 The site has a special significance for Icelanders , whose independence has been compromised on several occasions over the years .
30 In some closely defined circumstances , however , where it can be shown that a particular racial group has a special need with regard to education or training , access to facilities may be restricted or allocated first to its members .
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