Example sentences of "has [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and then there be the third little bedroom in the middle which Pam has as a sewing room
2 The era of a techno-structure or of technocracy has as a corollary the decline of the powers of parliamentary democracy in the true sense ’ .
3 In this case , exactly as one would expect , the adjective is acceptable in predicative position but only on condition that it bears the meaning it has as a non-separative .
4 The city has more Chartered Designers working within the city boundary than the rest of Scotland has as a whole .
5 Like the other quasi-nominal forms of the verb , it has as a support a representation of person not yet differentiated ordinally , as we have just seen .
6 The interest which the RUC has as a police force derives entirely from the social context in which it operates , but this context is both a spur and a hindrance to research on the RUC .
7 Throughout her school career Anna has been involved in a plethora of sporting clubs participating as fully in organisation terms as she has as a sportswoman .
8 He is fully aware that his income and , to some extent , his job security , are based on the lettings , The school 's popularity as a venue has as a result increased .
9 Hanson , Britain 's largest break-up specialist retains certain parts of the conglomerates which it has taken over , but has as a result itself became a conglomerate — as discussed in the previous subsection .
10 This complication has as a result of a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure in humans and not been previously described .
11 The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper .
12 Who , in their right mind , would voluntarily relinquish something that has as a consequence the loss of their personhood ?
13 It is important that as Christians we conceive of the corporation as a community which has as an objective more than just profit maximisation .
14 A word which has as an element either a past participle or a present participle , eg airborne , weatherbeaten , self-taught .
15 That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’
16 The Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys Longitudinal Study has for a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales in 1971 , brought together census information , with information about geographic movements noted in the National Health Service Central Register in 1971-74 .
17 This stance was not new but has for a while been taken by Nationalism Today .
18 Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use .
19 Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence .
20 It is apparently most excusable to rape your wife if she has for a period refused sexual intercourse ‘ unjustifiably ’ or if she has refused sexual intercourse unless her housekeeping money were raised , or even , curiously , ‘ in order to win her back . ’
21 It er has about a list of about thirty erm affordable housing .
22 Attitudes are a statement of a position an individual has about an object , an event , a person or a belief .
23 Sue Weston ( Mrs Griffin ) has after a period of secondment returned to the National Childminding Association where she now works as their National Training Officer .
24 There is no trust deed , no trustee and the saver 's claim upon the assets of the trust is only the very general claim that any shareholder has upon a company .
25 Even when the carer is a relative , when dementia is the disease carers may feel as if the old person has in a sense already died and left them so that ‘ this is not the mother I used to know ’ .
26 Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce .
27 ‘ the Kipling who limped out of the wreckage , shrunken and wry though he looks , has in a sense had his development as an artist ’ — Edmund Wilson : The Wound & the Bow
28 Well I suppose it has in a sense , yes , it 's enabled us to both confront the fact that that I 'm not all knowing and that I 'm not all powerful , which I mean was because my children , as I say , are still quite young , which is something new for them , I suppose , as well as something new for me .
29 Their society has in a word been bowdlerised .
30 The tendering process has in a number of cases been used by local authority managers to reassert their right to manage ’ ( 1988 , p. 187 ) .
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