Example sentences of "has [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has rather a thing about patchwork . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And a haemoglobin molecule has only a minute fraction of the complexity of a living body . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The famous " Big Mac " has only a fraction of the vitamin B content it should have . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 9 | The town , sprawling along the side of Lake Managua , has only a handful of buildings over one storey and is without any identifiable centre . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It has just a switch and a lamp for each of the 16 things ( or groups of things ) under control . |
| 15 | Score card has always a target of four thousand pound . |
| 16 | He knows , though , that he has still a lot to learn , particularly about the unglamorous side of things . |
| 17 | Regulation has both a micro and a macro aspect ( Llewellyn 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Any role has both a function and a status ; it is effectively a combination of the above . |
| 19 | Glad to see the Official Liberal Party candidate has both a beard and a funny forename — I 'm a bit of a traditionalist , myself . |
| 20 | ( The University of London has both a principal and a vice chancellor . ) |
| 21 | The difficulty experienced by the abbot of Fécamp in getting a decision on this small point has both a general and a particular interest . |
| 22 | Every human being has both a body and a mind . |
| 23 | Rather , there are three species , and each one of the three has both a 17-year and a 13-year variety or race . |
| 24 | In Leetham ( Henry ) & Sons Ltd v Johnstone-White [ 1907 ] 1 Ch 322 Farwell LJ commented : … a man whose business is a corn miller 's business , and who requires to protect that , can not , if he has also a furniture business , require the covenantee who enter into his service as an employee in the corn business to enter into covenants restricting him from entering into competition with him in the furniture business also , because it is not required for the protection of the corn business in which the man is employed , however much it may be beneficial to the individual person , the owner both of the corn business and of the furniture business . |
| 25 | The Information Centre has also a part share in the Venables building , which has been constructed on the site of the old Midland Bank . |
| 26 | country carrier , a ‘ lumbering , slow , honest ’ fellow and devoted husband of the much younger Mary ( called Dot ) , who is very domesticated but has also a capacity for managing other people 's affairs ; to wit , those of Edward Plummer and May Fielding , who , but for Dot 's secret intervention , would have married the disagreeable Tackleton . |
| 27 | These days it has also a dependency in the mountains beyond , a winter-sports and high-summer Annexe , called Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin , at 5 , 500 feet . |
| 28 | The Museum has also a tea house , and souvenir items which catalogue and postcards can be purchased in the reception area . |
| 29 | Repairing electric motors is hardly a growth business ( British Coal is not the only customer in long-term decline ) and Dowding already has about a quarter of the market . |
| 30 | Mr Major has about a year to display it . |