Example sentences of "has [adv] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris bumped his head again while snorkelling and now has rather an impressive bandage ! |
| 2 | The victim has only an equitable interest , and the accused is not guilty of theft of the shares . |
| 3 | Royal Bank of Scotland , for instance , has only an upmarket service through stockbroker Charterhouse Tilney . |
| 4 | At this stage , when the marram dies and the dune has only an incomplete cover of vegetation , there is a great danger of a blow out . |
| 5 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
| 6 | Land has both an economic function and a function in terms of personal and social esteem : |
| 7 | The managerial labour market thus has both an internal and an external dimension . |
| 8 | The penis ( from the Latin , tail ) has both an excretory and a reproductive function . |
| 9 | It was the birthplace as you soon find out of Marshal Foch , supreme commander on the western front in the later stages of the First World War , who has here an equestrian statue , a main street named after him and a small museum in the house where he was born in 1851 . |
| 10 | For its size , Penge has quite an imposing Town Hall , erected in Anerley Road , between the station and the aforementioned school , in 1879 . |
| 11 | This scale has quite an unusual sound and takes a little getting used to . |
| 12 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 13 | As indicated above , religious education in the Catholic secondary school , while being a vehicle for a mode of catechesis , has essentially an educational focus . |