Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a somewhat [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor are any reservations about Hawking 's work itself : on this score , Soul is more incisive than Errol Morris ' movie , in which the director has substituted a somewhat bemused deference for the confident spirit of critical inquiry that animated its forerunner , The Thin Blue Line . |
| 2 | In doing so , however , it has presented a somewhat one-sided view of human society . |
| 3 | In the backs , Kenny Logan has had a somewhat disappointing season after being capped in Australia last summer , but the stage is set for him to recover lost ground , as it is for his Stirling County colleague , Ian Jardine . |
| 4 | In the backs , Kenny Logan has had a somewhat disappointing season after being capped in Australia last summer , but the stage is set for him to recover lost ground , as it is for his Stirling County colleague , Ian Jardine . |
| 5 | Since that time it has had a somewhat chequered history , at certain times being in favour and at others being disapproved of most heartily . |
| 6 | Older people I have indicated already that the exclusion of older people from the labour market over the same period has had a somewhat different impact upon their position in reciprocal support within families . |
| 7 | In one country , Malawi , the President has taken a somewhat extreme stand against ‘ modern methods ’ in education and has forbidden their use . |
| 8 | D. Michie , professor of machine intelligence at Edinburgh University , has discovered a somewhat similar state of affairs in a hybrid mouse , and R. A. Fisher suggested the term affinity to describe the phenomenon . |
| 9 | If one had to make a guess , it is that within another ten years or so ‘ environment ’ will have become a somewhat passé term , rather as ‘ ecological ’ has , simply because of its insufficiency as a generic description ; a term which links the preservation of rural landscapes in Europe to the fate of millions in Bangladesh obviously has problems of definition . |
| 10 | The actual Indian designs were not , however , to the taste of the British at the time , who had developed a somewhat different image of Oriental peoples . |
| 11 | Francis Pym , who had given a somewhat hesitant performance at the Foreign Office in the Prime Minister 's view , was removed from his post immediately after the election . |
| 12 | For many years teachers had occupied a somewhat ambiguous position . |
| 13 | After the rising of 1715 the British government had made a somewhat half-hearted attempt to tame the Highlands . |
| 14 | He was entering that awkward stage of early adolescence and had become a somewhat ungainly-looking boy . |
| 15 | No insects and no fish have so far been found to use sonar , but two quite different groups of fish , one in South America and one in Africa , have developed a somewhat similar navigation system , which appears to be just about as sophisticated and which can be seen as a related , but different , solution to the same problem . |
| 16 | Our rarer breeding birds in the United Kingdom have had a somewhat mixed year this summer , mainly due to the weather we 've had which has been very hot down south , but quite er wet and windy up north . |