Example sentences of "a [noun] have [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least sufficient transport was found to carry these Special Forces from one action to another in a land battle , a far cry from 1940 when one or two trucks might be the only vehicles a Commando had on its strength . |
| 2 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |
| 3 | Psychologists used to think that the affection-love bond that a baby has for its mother is based on the fact that the mother provides food and satisfies the infant 's hunger drive . |
| 4 | For such a theory has at its heart an object of study completely different to that which theory treats in other genres . |
| 5 | Any effect that a change in a gene has on its own replication probability is fair game for natural selection . |
| 6 | The fact remains that it is undoubtedly important for an ad to have at its core a more or less straightforward main benefit that is being offered to the consumer . |
| 7 | But the EQ as measured is probably telling us something about how much ‘ computing power ’ an animal has in its head , over and above the irreducible minimum of computing power needed for the routine running of its large or small body . |