Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 2 | Where a word in a sentence has more than one meaning , dictionary definitions can be used to select the appropriate sense . |
| 3 | And also it , it intensifies the erm demand on housing stock , because none of those people are gon na be in a position to have very much choice when it come when it comes to finding somewhere to live . |
| 4 | The person who crosses the finish line first in a race has definitely had the most superior performance that day . |
| 5 | ( He laughs briefly and in a second has never laughed in his life . ) |
| 6 | While most residents were in fairly frequent contact with relatives and friends from outside the home , one in five of those who spent all the last twelve months of their lives in a home had either no visitors at all or less than one visit a month . |
| 7 | In the Report a pretty little example is given of the system 's performance in a mini-region having just 12 seats . |
| 8 | Wealth did not make him lavish , however ; he had always been careful about money — indeed , he was economical in all areas of life , even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea-pot had actually been drunk — and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook . |
| 9 | No one worried much ; people in a hurry have long since found another way to travel . |
| 10 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |
| 11 | Two shipwrecked men in a boat have only enough food for one , so that one of them must die if the other is to live . |