Example sentences of "this [noun sg] has [det] " in BNC.

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1 This story has many of the motifs common to dragon legends .
2 tough and well made , this sack has some nice touches allied to a basically simple design .
3 I know also that some Conservatives that feel that perhaps what I 've laid before you this afternoon has some credence .
4 This pull has little effect on the land but is strong enough to move the waters .
5 Nobody else in this dive has any money , and for them it will he a long cold evening .
6 This measure has several advantages .
7 Before this defence has any role to play it must be shown that the defendant has committed a tort .
8 This provision has most application in the area of whole agreement ( or entire agreement ) clauses which limit the bounds of the relationship of the parties to the particular contract in question .
9 The south face of this crag has many three and four pitch routes at 5b to 6a .
10 Nowadays they may be esteemed by their peers who know something of their work , but this esteem has little currency value in the committee-rooms where performance is appraised .
11 At a more theoretical level this characterization has some affinities with Gouldner 's concept of ‘ functional autonomy ’ :
12 Christianity may be represented by a tombstone and a gold ring with an incised palm branch and the legend AMA ME , although this religion has more significance in post-Roman Carlisle .
13 But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed .
14 This club has some very talented young players and it would be terrible to frustrate them . ’
15 This instrument has many advantages .
16 This result has many useful consequences , as we shall see in subsequent sections .
17 The design task set in this test has some non-mathematical features and it was used in an exercise with some groups of teachers to obtain their views on what should be marked .
18 Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number .
19 I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers .
20 In Britain , this moment has several phases during a long and turbulent period from the late-eighteenth century to the 1840s .
21 As an object-lesson in how to reveal the personality and qualities of one composer by setting him against opposites , this record has few peers .
22 Privatization of this sort has less to do with increased public choice by individual consumers and more to do with the cheaper provision of a standard service .
23 & Mary , sess 2 , c. 2 ) , but I do not consider that this article has any relevance to the present case , being concerned , as it was , with the denial of the right of the executive to levy taxes without the consent of Parliament .
24 This war has another side : I have said that it is a miserable , dirty and very bloody war , but it is also a meaningless war .
25 This quotation has many interesting strands , some of which are explored later on in this book .
26 As well as all the things you would expect from a home finance package , such as automatic standing orders debits and bank reconciliation , this package has all the extras that , once used , you will wonder how you managed without them .
27 This knowledge has many facets : knowledge of people ( their needs , wants , attitudes , values , plans , etc. ) , knowledge of physical laws , knowledge of cultural and social laws , etc .
28 Brian Meek , for the Conservatives , said : ‘ I do n't know exactly that this organisation has any right to speak for democracy in Scotland , nor do I believe that it 's an all-party organisation …
29 Sagi-ash dachi ( crane stance ) : this stance has all the weight distributed on one leg .
30 Erich Fromm has , however , pointed out the ways in which this theory has some fit with modern American assumptions that war is basic to mankind , and that if there is another war , it will not be as a result of American or Russian policies , but a further manifestation of unchangeable biological drives of destructiveness .
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