Example sentences of "have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 2 | But this dependency of e on other than c has a perfect counterpart with respect to the first conditional . |
| 3 | This year he has a perfect excuse — his wife is expecting their first baby during the time the Three Wise Ladies are picking up from police , local authorities , and others information about weather , congestion , and danger points , and relaying it to the media . |
| 4 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 5 | Long Valley Lad ( 9.15 ) looks good enough for the first and Kick The Ball ( 9.45 ) has a perfect Trap 6 draw . |
| 6 | SILENCE Of The Lambs star Anthony Hopkins , 57 , has a perfect recipe for success . |
| 7 | Secondly , no city yet has a perfect model to copy . |
| 8 | Thus could a parent make a fairly reasonable answer which would acknowledge that the child is not silly , and has a perfect right to be treated in an adult way when he asks a serious question . |
| 9 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 10 | To the Welsh , this has a familiar ring . |
| 11 | Eliot 's next sentence has a familiar ring : ‘ In the end , horror and laughter may be one — only when horror and laughter have become as horrible and laughable as they can be … |
| 12 | The treatment prescribed has a familiar ring : rigorous financial analysis followed by cost-cutting , asset sales and then negotiations to convince creditors that rescheduling beats liquidation . |
| 13 | The story has a familiar ring to it in the sense that women are seldom encouraged to be in top positions at work the world over . |
| 14 | If such a three-pronged assault on the ailing Soviet economy has a familiar ring to it , that is hardly surprising . |
| 15 | The process of retirement too has a differential impact on men and women , but the experience of women has remained obscured because old age has been regarded , in Simone de Beauvoir 's ( 1977 , p. 101 ) terms , as ‘ a man 's problem ’ . |
| 16 | We have seen that retirement has a differential impact on older people which depends primarily on their prior socio-economic status and the access which this grants to resources which might be carried into retirement . |
| 17 | ( One roll-call of disadvantaged groups has a telling juxtaposition : ‘ people with disabilities , folk enthusiasts … ’ |
| 18 | The bed , a Relyon Woolsack , has a pure lambswool filling and pocketed springs for extra comfort and plenty of support . |
| 19 | He has not the Kleophrades Painter 's weight and power , but his grace has a spare strength . |
| 20 | Left to right : The Adjustable Arm Floor lamp can be moved up or down ; the Standard Floor Model has a three-section column , and the Halogen Floor Model 's head is adjustable . |
| 21 | The Corrado also has a multi-function computer , while the Calibra has a no-cost option of metallic paint . |
| 22 | It has a multi-disciplinary team both for the selection of people to move to the community and to manage their services — take decisions on their services once they are in the community . |
| 23 | But no well sometimes it has a reverse effect on people . |
| 24 | The only exception to this is if the child has a disease process that has a short-term prognosis . |
| 25 | A new product by Carmen , Steam Therapy acts as a facial sauna but also has a nasal inhaler to help alleviate colds and sinus problems . |
| 26 | Cummings suggests that the microcomputer is a powerful generator of discussion which should be fostered and not ignored and states that Language has a triple function in education : for communication as a thinking tool and a shaper of leanings . |
| 27 | Phosphorus has a triple point at 862.5 K ( 589.5°C ) and 43.1 atmospheres . |
| 28 | On traditional French pattern , it has a triple portal , a wonderful rose window and two towers . |
| 29 | This is an externally refereed journal with a circulation of over 500 copies , and which has a world-wide reputation for excellence in the quality of papers published . |
| 30 | He stands down this summer looking tired and weary after 20 years in office running a metropolis of ten million people which has a world-wide reputation for its crime , its gangs , its murders , its drugs , its violence , its riots , its burning streets . |