Example sentences of "[adv] have a " in BNC.

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1 I 'm thinking , for example , it 's not a medicine as such , but I 'm thinking of the birth control pill , which presumably has a possible effect in its particular form over a period perhaps twenty years , rather than five years , on a person .
2 For that investment the member gets a stake in the club and in the freehold , and thereby has a say in how it is run .
3 Management control thereby has a tendency to become more centralized .
4 But once one team has started to dominate the gene pool of a species it thereby has an automatic advantage .
5 It would also have many applications in Third World countries since it uses rubber tyres in both modes and thereby has an incline capability of ⅙ This means that in Third World countries instead of flattening the mountains and filling the valleys to make them level to one could follow the contours of the countryside and enormously reduce civil engineering costs .
6 Through the Standing Committee on Library Materials on Africa , the library additionally has an obligation to maintain collections on Zambia and Malawi .
7 Rarely has a film given me such a warm glow .
8 Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers .
9 Weeell , to our knowledge , no-one else quite sums up the paper over the past ten or so years — rarely has a pop personage and his relationship with a music paper produced so many sparks , so much debate , so much excellent copy , and ( ahem ) so many yards of Angst .
10 Rarely has a government been so hard-put to explain why a bill will benefit Britain .
11 I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices .
12 Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege .
13 Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase .
14 There should therefore be a significant and fluctuating gravitational red shift of the pulsar period P : which numerically has an amplitude of order .
15 They follow two lines : either my child commands me to do something , and if I do n't , she insists , and eventually has a tantrum ;
16 this soon tangles itself in a web of white noise and frantic improvisation which eventually has a hypnotising effect on the audience .
17 Nina eventually has a nervous breakdown , but after a brief stay in hospital she returns to Gael .
18 The next cell ( 82e ) is empty , but 82f has a disturbing occupant .
19 The passengers were saddened by the thought that they were unlikely to see their native land again but probably neither before nor since has a group of people set out with more determination to establish a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education .
20 No , because right has a tummy bug this week and she did n't phone or nothing like to say I do n't wan na phone Margaret she do n't wan na know so I do n't know why you 're bugging her for !
21 If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth .
22 Thus where during the trader 's unsolicited visit an offer is made which is accepted only later , the customer effectively has a longer cooling-off period .
23 Almost that he is twisted , leant over to one side , he perhaps has a severe spinal problem .
24 No there seems no logic in taking a , a long barrelled weapon er in as much as the team leader perhaps has a few more responsibilities than the other officers have and I would be going forward to handcuff whoever was in that bo er in that bedroom .
25 Literally has a rest , you do n't do anything .
26 The single dog , who has probably been bored for many years , suddenly has a new playmate , who like himself , sleeps most of the time , but will enjoy a game for short periods .
27 With its Seminar Centre in Scotland and close contact with many Scottish institutions , the Trust naturally has a particular interest in rural development in Scotland .
28 The young Yorkshireman apparently has a good temperament and a complete all-round game .
29 So they said , ‘ Herr von Karajan apparently has a computer in his brain ! ’
30 The USSR apparently has a lead in radar equipment able to see through clouds .
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