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

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1 It 's fairly common for young babies who are long-sighted at six months , for example , to have normal vision by the time they 're four .
2 Conversely , because of the universal very steep learning curves with early experience , any novel enterprise is bound to have extensive teething troubles , which should be allowed for in general even though they are not predictable in particular .
3 DEC expects to have production-quality Alpha PCs ready in the first quarter and will be sending them out to ISVs before the end-user version of Microsoft Corp Windows NT becomes available .
4 ‘ We prefer to have working capital rather than interest from money held in a Trust account , so we expect to apply for a bonding arrangement in the future , ’ adds Ms Burrows .
5 Although the Revolutionary Command Council consisted exclusively of military men it was not devoted solely to military interests : Jallud , for example , was said to have strong support among the technocrats in the petroleum and development departments .
6 Little is known to have strong support in the Sunderland boardroom , but he was anxious to dismiss speculation yesterday .
7 Realistically , though , you would need to have strong evidence that the existence of such a right is part of your particular deal with your employer , and that you have been denied satisfaction from your work in a clear and unjustifiable fashion , before you could pursue litigation with confidence .
8 Conversely , there is a negative correlation between Dupuytren 's disease and rheumatoid arthritis , a condition known to have strong association with HLA-DR4 .
9 It is generally accepted that the ‘ master and slave ’ ideology of classical management theory is not properly tenable , ( although these beliefs still exist widely today and , to varying degrees , classical management theories are used in practice : bureaucracy and the formal structure of organisations offer security , familiarity and safety which continue to have strong appeal ) .
10 Now it is possible to have maintenancefree plastic boards fitted on the exterior of the home to replace timber fascia boards , barge boards and weatherboards .
11 A staggering 17.9% of the total UK population of 7 to 10 year olds are expected to see it — and children are well known to have outstanding recall of cinema advertisements .
12 First decide on just two matches that appear to have outstanding draw chances and mark them X in the first column of the Treble Chance ( to the right of the fixtures ) .
13 A LABOUR councillor skipped town hall meetings to have three-in-a-bed sex romps with her boyfriend and a 15-year-old schoolgirl , it was claimed yesterday .
14 High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) .
15 In general , evaluation research tends to have low credibility among academics .
16 Despite its high sensitivity , the Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG has been found to have low specificity .
17 It is clear from both the untransformed and the transformed plot that the oil-producing countries tend to have low life expectancies for their level of wealth .
18 They are likely to have low self esteem , a low income or no money .
19 Girls choosing science are not particularly emotionally reticent or rigid in their thinking , although they do seem to have low self-esteem in terms of being socially and sexually attractive .
20 Forty patients were found to have low grade dysplasia in at least one biopsy .
21 Two patients who had been negative for dysplasia were found to have low grade dysplasia in their colectomy specimens .
22 The subject area RE continues to have low status .
23 These days , we should expect the drivers of all trains to have two-way communication at all times with the signal box and those who are in control of the track .
24 It is all very well to have two-way communication , but we need some high technology which will prevent trains from slamming into the back of each other .
25 On the minus side , rented houses and flats tend to have strange colour schemes , ie , a mismatch of all the odd bits and pieces from the landlords other houses .
26 His courage and exploits were legendary , and his crews were said to have unbounded faith in him .
27 Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies .
28 Erm but after you 're confirmed , you will have er you know the ability to say , yes Lord I want to have wisdom , I want to have right judgment .
29 Regardless of whether the minor or anyone else with authority to do so consents to the treatment , that practitioner will be liable to the minor in negligence if he fails to advise with reasonable skill and care and to have due regard to the best interests of his patient .
30 In this context it seeks to inform public opinion of the importance of protecting the traditional character of the Welsh rural environment , and to persuade decision-makers at every level to have due regard for this objective in carrying out their responsibilities .
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