Example sentences of "have [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 2 | She has rather a thing about patchwork . |
| 3 | As the above photograph suggests , American artist , photographer and video-maker William Wegman has rather a penchant for doggies of all shapes and sizes , and his work is positively littered with them . |
| 4 | And a haemoglobin molecule has only a minute fraction of the complexity of a living body . |
| 5 | A finder who sells goods without first disclosing that he has only a finder 's title is in breach of the condition in section 12 . |
| 6 | To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience . |
| 7 | The famous " Big Mac " has only a fraction of the vitamin B content it should have . |
| 8 | Losses during the full year in mortgage indemnity business , where GA has only a 4% market share , were again in line with expectations at $53.1m , including $20.9m in the fourth quarter . |
| 9 | Losses in mortgage indemnity business , where General Accident has only a 4% share , were in line with expectations at $4.4m . |
| 10 | A smaller 9.6 volt model is also offered , but this has only a 330mm ( 13in ) cutting capacity , and takes 12 hours to recharge . |
| 11 | The Americans are world champions and half a second faster than the British best — but I can redress that balance just by telling Christie he has only a dog 's chance . |
| 12 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 13 | The town , sprawling along the side of Lake Managua , has only a handful of buildings over one storey and is without any identifiable centre . |
| 14 | This is the route that Data Logic thought IBM was originally treading , a CICS/Open strategy in which the OLTP environment , plus the wealth of CICS applications already available , could be brought to the open systems market which has only a handful of fledgling OLTP technologies to offer , and few software packages . |
| 15 | There was a very light cross wind from the right which caused a swing in that direction , and as the Nimbus has only a tail-skid , it swung as it started its take-off run . |
| 16 | Having done so , it then regrows its tail , though it is not always as long as the original and internally it is quite different , for instead of bony vertebrae , it has only a tube of cartilage . |
| 17 | On the benchmarks themselves , Pentium outstrips IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc 's fastest processors on integer performance , and is closing the gap with the RISC chips on floating point , although all are still comfortably ahead of the Intel processor with the exception of SuperSparc , which has only a 10% advantage over Pentium . |
| 18 | On the benchmarks themselves , Pentium outstrips IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc 's fastest processors on integer performance , and is closing the gap with the RISC chips on floating point , although all are still comfortably ahead of the Intel processor with the exception of SuperSparc , which has only a 10% advantage over Pentium . |
| 19 | Since he has only an option and does not legally commit himself to buy the goods , the contract is not one of sale , Helby v. Matthews ( 1895 H.L. ) . |
| 20 | This international co-operation between clearinghouses does not preclude international co-operation on an individual library basis , nor does it mean that the Australian , UK and USA clearinghouses will not provide a service to individual libraries in another country which has or has not a clearinghouse of its own . |
| 21 | It is a wild and mischievous allegation , for which the hon. Lady has not a shadow of evidence . |
| 22 | Having inundated us with Mozart last season , it has not a note of Rossini this summer . |
| 23 | It is not easy to see the future for the art of jewellery ; it may even be considered that as an art it has not a future . |
| 24 | No one , in this cast of hundreds , has just a walk-on part : a role in just one Goldwyn film entitles us to the full biography of Frances Farmer , from winning a teenage essay competition to her eventual confinement in an asylum . |
| 25 | It has just a switch and a lamp for each of the 16 things ( or groups of things ) under control . |
| 26 | Score card has always a target of four thousand pound . |
| 27 | He knows , though , that he has still a lot to learn , particularly about the unglamorous side of things . |
| 28 | Regulation has both a micro and a macro aspect ( Llewellyn 1986 ) . |
| 29 | Any role has both a function and a status ; it is effectively a combination of the above . |
| 30 | Glad to see the Official Liberal Party candidate has both a beard and a funny forename — I 'm a bit of a traditionalist , myself . |