Example sentences of "[verb] have [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 2 | Thanks to the vagaries of international politics , Ethiopia has had only a tiny slice of this aid cake . |
| 3 | ‘ So my Berlioz connection was founded on love , but fate has had almost an equal hand in it . ’ |
| 4 | This seems an academic disputation compared with the salient fact that the programme , whichever way you look at it , would appear to have hardly a single vote in it . |
| 5 | At move 40 , Karpov seemed to have only a small advantage . |
| 6 | You seem to have quite a large sense of pessimism about how to deal with this problem , Frankie . |
| 7 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 8 | having had rather a nasty shock when I had the car serviced the other day . |
| 9 | Why could n't she have had just a small taste of the honeyed delight that Rourke 's love would have brought , just a fragment of the glowing ember that would have warmed her inside , instead of this cold , bitter emptiness ? |
| 10 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 11 | Mr le Gros , who sang a serenade filled with double entendres to his fickle mistress in the Ballet des plaisirs , must have had quite a high voice since he was normally assigned parts notated in either alto clef ( C3 , the usual clef for the high tenor voice known as the haute-contre ) |
| 12 | Houghton is a management analyst and appears to have only a hazy idea of how librarians organize book selection , and of the sources that they use . |
| 13 | On the list of officer casualties appeared the name of a young company commander who Pétain recalled had been particularly eager to join his regiment , and had seemed to have quite a promising future . |
| 14 | He — well , he seems to have rather a low opinion of the Pentagon . ’ |
| 15 | These forms of art , however , can generally be believed to have only a friendly connection with their inspiration , which , indeed , is normally only the starting point for the exercise of the talent of the musician or the poet . |
| 16 | The signal systems by which ‘ art ’ is indicated have then a complex sociology . |
| 17 | The early sea urchins tend to have rather a large number of plates in a much less regular mosaic than their later relatives . |
| 18 | The relaxation of advertising regulations , initially in 1979–80 , and more fully in 1987 , seems to have had only a limited impact on the profession . |
| 19 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I did have rather a bad night . ’ |
| 21 | She does seem to have quite a free hand for a woman under twenty one |
| 22 | This factor … should make the court the more cautious before holding that the defendant had had both a factual possession and animus possidendi sufficient to confer on him a possessory title … |
| 23 | After his death Margaret had had only a widowed mother 's pension to support Dickie and herself . |
| 24 | At the meeting re-convened to pass the accounts , the members were given a thorough , and far-reaching report , which included the recommendation to spend ‘ less excessively ’ on the clubhouse , but more on the course , and to raise the wages of some staff who had had only a meagre 15s. 0d. a week for years . |
| 25 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 26 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 27 | They 're beautiful if you 're walking across the Downs and admiring the trees or the open countryside , but erm there are times , and we 've had just a recent spell with easterly winds , and we find with an easterly wind along the south coast , because of the Downs , and because of the , the Dover Straits , these easterly winds tend to erm funnel , as we call it , and therefore they are stronger than they would normally be expected to be , so Brighton does have its disadvantages in , from that point of view , but from the sunshine and the general point of view erm it takes a lot to beat the area . |
| 28 | I 've had rather a surprising piece of news , that 's all . ’ |
| 29 | I 've had rather a hard day — well , I 'm sure you can imagine . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I understand you 've had only a boiled egg this morning , ’ she said meaningfully , then returning her attention to the maid , ordered , ‘ Make that tea for two , Margaret . |