Example sentences of "[verb] have such a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think there is any model who has had such a meteoric rise . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 3 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 4 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , I am very sorry to learn that my book has had such a distressing effect on you . |
| 5 | ‘ It has had such a marked effect on our safety performance that we are now organising shorter courses focused on specific needs , for example trade centres and the sales force . ’ |
| 6 | No poet in the twentieth century has had such a conscious sense of his own work , or of the tradition in which he was operating . |
| 7 | It is one indication of why he has had such a unique influence on the history of mankind . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never done anything that has had such a wonderful response . |
| 9 | But after our day out when we 'd had such a good time it seemed as though you might care and that we could have a chance . |
| 10 | And , you know , we all lost a good friend ; I 'd had such a great time over those last two days working with him and with Eric , and I think about that time quite a bit . |
| 11 | This made me lose track of his subsequent drift as I struggled to imagine how chess-playing came to have such a pejorative connotation for him . |
| 12 | ‘ And Terry and Stephen seemed to have such a good time there . |
| 13 | ‘ Those two are going to have such a good time — is n't it just so lucky , their being born almost together ? ’ |
| 14 | They 're not quite so committed to doing maths in the morning and English in the afternoon , whereas in a secondary school it is quite difficult to bring in something as that 's going to have such a dramatic effect as a micro without sort of the ripples actually perturbing things to a destructive degree . |
| 15 | Dr Margaret O'Brien , a chartered psychologist at East London Polytechnic and author of The New Man , told the conference : ‘ Though there have been many changes in family life over the century , it is surprising to discover that children seem to have such a traditional view . ’ |
| 16 | And nowhere in our lives do more problems seem to arise than in the area of relationships — and no other problems seem to have such a long-lasting effect . |
| 17 | It all began because my friend Pat was called by the Lord to work as a nurse in Saudi , and her experiences there gave me an interest in that country and especially in the Women as they seem to have such a hard life . |
| 18 | Ian Botham ca n't have been expecting to have such a free winter , but he 's certainly filling it innovatively with a national tour of his show , An Evening With Ian Botham . |
| 19 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 20 | Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race . |
| 21 | They must have had such a pleasing approach to Raasay House ; the bay of their arrival seems unlikely to have changed , a wide and gentle place , now full of windsurfers — the mansion where they stayed now houses an Adventure School . |
| 22 | ‘ I can not think , ’ remarked Russell , ‘ Why laziness should have had such a bad press . |
| 23 | Others , who may not have had such a happy relationship with their parents in the past , take on care out of a sense of duty . |
| 24 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |
| 25 | Indeed , manufacturing capability seems to have such a major impact on product development that it is worth examining in greater detail . |
| 26 | According to Pilkington , ‘ One child he examined had such a lacerated tongue he compared it to sago pudding . ’ |
| 27 | Giving the puppies a companion , or playthings , failed to have such a beneficial effect . |
| 28 | It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’ |
| 29 | It 's a bit naughty is n't it to have had such a good game and er |
| 30 | They seemed disappointed to hear that we had had such a pleasant day on the far bank . |