Example sentences of "have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two movements of the B flat minor Sonata have a demonic urgency . |
| 2 | Indeed , we might even be inclined to suggest that third parties that are buoyant in the opinion polls , and have a diffuse appeal beyond specific regions , are only able to sustain their support on the basis of an attractive ambiguity about their main policy objectives that precludes the presentation of crisp programmes and , therefore , the possibility of programmatic support . |
| 3 | I have a Nigerian passport and a British passport . |
| 4 | The 16th-century ruins of Knock Castle , 2 miles away , have a murky past — all the sons of the Laird were murdered by a neighbouring Forbes of Strath girnock ; when the Laird was informed he was so overcome by grief that he fell down a staircase to his death . |
| 5 | This case shows neither that employers should refuse jobs to those who have a murky past nor that they should not entrust secrets to subordinate employees — that is impracticable — but that they should not simply rely on the implied duty of confidence ; it can lead to misunderstandings and difficulties as to what is really secret . |
| 6 | They have a working knowledge of contract law and other legal areas which affect musicians , such as noise levels and music licences , so that they can give advice on anything and everything that affects musicians . |
| 7 | More recent writers have confidence in their role — as story-tellers rather than moral teachers — and more confidence in their young readers , most of whom have a working ethical sense . |
| 8 | It is claimed that they have a working range of up to 15 feet ( 5 metres ) . |
| 9 | Hewlett Packard have a working agreement with Compugraphic which has already led to that company 's typesetters being able to understand PCL and HP 's printers being able to accept Compugraphic 's fonts — they also provide PostScript as an option . |
| 10 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 11 | They , on the contrary , the police authority have a working party which had four very long and very detailed meetings and went through their budget line by line by line , and these are the figures they came up with . |
| 12 | We have a working party to look into the problem of substance abuse . |
| 13 | My parents have a cruel sense of humour . |
| 14 | The words of Johnson 's wife , Ladybird , have a cruel irony : " I just hope that foreign problems do not keep mounting they do not represent Lyndon 's kind of presidency . " |
| 15 | I have a cruel desire to stand in front of one , step to the left , then to the right , then again to the left once more , just to confuse them . |
| 16 | Pairs of sentences that have a coherent semantic relation have been shown to be more rapidly processed than pairs in which the relation is less distinct [ Just & carpenter , 1978 ] . |
| 17 | One reason why that will be so is that we have a coherent approach to Europe , not one that changes every weekend . |
| 18 | So , we have a coherent democratic system for developing industrial and policies within the union . |
| 19 | Every five years or so have a glorious clear out and throw all the old |
| 20 | The main group of verbs which will both justify the singling out of some adjectival property of the entity behind the object phrase , and which , moreover , have a lexical value such that this adjectival property will be understood to apply to the object in some way especially relevant to the meaning of the verb are , as we have indicated , verbs which include the notion of a change of state . |
| 21 | The young French artist 's sculptures have a seeming fragility . |
| 22 | Few great cities have a principal street with such a spectacular setting as Princes Street . |
| 23 | Some houses of this time still have a fortified and military feeling , but most are Gothic in spirit . |
| 24 | ‘ I have a hypothetical blunt instrument for you , Ellis . ’ |
| 25 | We still have a six-point buffer but I expect us to have to go to the last day of the season . ’ |
| 26 | First this is held downwards , then it is swung upwards to varying heights so that you have a split second in which to hit it with a suitable technique . |
| 27 | They can be parked left or right , or have a split centre draw leaving a clear throughway . |
| 28 | Even the idea that people have a split personality is n't strictly true . |
| 29 | What if I have a curved staircase or a platform landing ? |
| 30 | The most basic bags have a curved flap at the top with a drawcord running around the circumference . |