Example sentences of "[adj] to have some " in BNC.

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1 When he split up with his wife , a while before , she spread some damaging stories about him , and I think the college was secretly quite relieved to have some evidence that he was het after all .
2 Different curvatures would give different results in the sense that it would often be optimal for the more risk-averse to have some small part of the risk .
3 So I think there are a number of questions about the principle about the nature of criteria , what would be appropriate in a structure plan , what would not be appropriate in a structure plan as well as , would it be helpful , unhelpful , impossible to have some order of priority .
4 I know that Bob and Glynis will be delighted to have some because he 's been out of work .
5 For one thing , he was lucky to have some outstanding players under him , and fortunate , too , in the Board 's choice of manager for the tour .
6 The very fact that the visit is ‘ in an entirely private , unofficial capacity ’ ( the Cardinal 's words to me last week ) is more likely to have some beneficial effect in the ‘ diplomatic minefield ’ to which your correspondent refers than the more usual protocol-and-agenda-laden expedition .
7 Those likely to have some relevance , either directly or indirectly , for nature conservation are examined below .
8 You may need to ask yourself questions like ‘ When am I likely to have some space to myself ? ’ ,
9 And it has to be said that most of us are likely to have some kind of experience when our ego is deflated ; and that can often have a beneficial not a negative effect .
10 Although this varies a great deal from patient to patient , all post-operative patients are likely to have some degree of anxiety and/or pain .
11 The bank knew that Mr. O'Brien was likely to have some influence on her and that she was likely to place some reliance on him and his business judgment .
12 You are likely to have some ticklish moments , times when perhaps corpse clashes with comedy .
13 Thus a fully anticipated change in fiscal policy is quite likely to have some effect on real output in that it affects the willingness of the population to work to produce output .
14 People have to invest their money and most years , whether in an era of low interest rates or high interest rates , they are likely to have some of their capital eroded by inflation , after tax is taken into account , if they just put it in the building society .
15 Would I abort if my child was likely to have some kind of deformity ?
16 In more normal times , an expansion of money supply would be likely to have some effect on interest rates .
17 But even a schoolboy 's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point ; and Blast had none .
18 As a child of 16 , I was supposed to have some gift of description ; now I have not a particle of descriptive power … .
19 The problem of designing a complete research project is frequently encountered by university lecturers who have to supervise undergraduate dissertations which are supposed to have some element , no matter how small , of ‘ research ’ in them .
20 David : ‘ The listener 's supposed to have some problems with it anyway .
21 So they went to the Kildingy Well which was s supposed to have some kind of magical properties you see and er I do n't ken if it was a a holy well or exactly but it certainly was reputed to have some kind of properties that could cure supposed to cure any disease save the black death .
22 And it , it 's supposed to have some splendid pictures , a very fine collection indeed .
23 But Noel , is n't exercise against resistance is supposed to have some special benefit is n't it ?
24 well Hampshire was supposed to have some more were n't they ?
25 I deal with children all the time erm many of my I 've been there eight years now and so lots of children have passed through my hands who in particular have lots of educational problems and need special help , and I suppose somebody though erm that although the rage now is to have Governors who are working in industry , and that 's perfectly proper , that it would n't be a bad idea to have somebody who is supposed to have some knowledge and background of the way children behave and what children need , so erm although I do have some politics , you know , Bill , I erm largely keep them quiet in the governing body .
26 ‘ Willy rambled on about Norman archways and perpendicular naves , as if glad to have some arcane topic to take his mind off the inquest .
27 As I said , I 'm never often out , and if you 're a long way from home it 's always good to have some place to drop in to .
28 We should have them a bit more often — it was good to have some fun with our friends and colleagues . ’
29 At present the Committee is formed largely of teachers ; it would be good to have some class members .
30 Well , it 's good to have some sort of an explanation I can give everyone .
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