Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] have [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If anybody if anything survives because it can chew better or gallop better or bring forth it 's young alive or has a better circulation , it 's not the species .
2 ‘ Vulnerable people should be aware that there are some laboratories and practitioners who rely on controversial and unproven procedures … which are not considered by independent observers either to be reliable or to have a scientific basis . ’
3 The pressure to please must have been especially strong for women writers who , if they wrote novels of ideas , were in danger of either being rejected as over-cerebral or having the intellectual content of their work ignored .
4 Such calls are usually of an offensive sexual nature , e.g. heavy breathers and also come under point 3 , but could be offensive in other ways , e.g. telling a woman that her dead husband was having an affair , was homosexual or had a criminal record etc .
5 If members have done something interesting or have a fascinating or unusual hobby and want to tell us about it perhaps letting us borrow a photograph of the member ? ) they are welcome to write — quoting membership number please .
6 It is extremely light and has a sensible gear ratio of 4:1 .
7 The abilities not just to comprehend , to take things into one 's own understanding , and to make something of them , but also to be able to evaluate critically the available theories and traditions , and to be willing and have the mental toughness to take up a stance of one 's own : all these abilities point to an intellectual independence , requiring real academic freedom for their realization .
8 The okapi , according to Gill Venner , is shy and elusive and has a long gestation period . )
9 She looked at him , smiling , and he thought she was beautiful , even though she was old and had a stiff , curly whisker or two on her chin .
10 The boy was about fourteen years old and had the long , fuzzy hair of the Dervish .
11 Wendy from Countesthorpe in Leicester , is 18 years old and has a little daughter , Natasha , who was born in December 1988 .
12 Presentation findings is made more exciting and has the added bonus of a " perfect " final copy which becomes a resource for others to use .
13 The ramparts themselves were of earth , but were timber-faced and had an internal wooden framework to give additional strength .
14 That is what it takes to become internationally popular and to have a longlasting career .
15 Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program .
16 The advantage of fondant over royal icing for covering cakes is that it is much easier and quicker to make , is more pliable and has a softer texture that many people prefer .
17 ‘ The firm is very departmentalised and has a strong commitment to legal aid work .
18 In such areas the landscape was as much medieval as in the open-field lands but it was very different and had a different pattern of settlement within it .
19 Our rail network is the lowest funded , the lowest staffed and has the lowest investment programme in Europe with the poorest quality service and the fastest declining level of safety , but B R has the highest fares .
20 Fair-haired , he was clean shaven and had a strong face .
21 Young single women with children are overwhelmingly likely to be living in local authority housing , and those who married early and/or had a pre-marital conception are more likely to do so as well .
22 Alain became interesting to his father when he showed that he was exceptionally clever and had the same flair for finance .
23 The five independent CsA molecules are also closely similar and have an average r.m.s.d. of 0.26 ( for all pairwise fits using all atoms ) .
24 They are very similar and have the same requirements .
25 They are monuments dedicated to suffering ; they are never triumphalist and have no victorious character .
26 Then there was a bit of a commotion from under the table , where the oldest nomes were clustering together to keep warm and have a good moan .
27 On the domestic front I was less fortunate and had no great success with house hunting .
28 He 's pretty straightforward and has a nice sense of humour — almost British in fact .
29 The inhabitants , having colonised naturally , would be well-adapted to the local conditions ; no two commons would be alike ; and garden escapes , which are often very colourful and have a long flowering period , would be welcome .
30 The plaintiff was the stepdaughter of the deceased and had a close relationship with him .
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