Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An industrial manager at any level should endeavour to have a clear view of the future , and the role that he would like his business to play in that future . |
| 2 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 3 | With the higher populations of Amerindians in the past , such groups must have had a major effect on the structure of the forest . |
| 4 | Anyone who survived with Lennie must have had a tough time . |
| 5 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 6 | Dinosaurs may have had a four-chambered heart ; if so they were probably warm-blooded . |
| 7 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 8 | Even the landscapes , birds and animals may have had a religious significance ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 9 | football may have had a rough old week … but we 've got some celebrating to do now … |
| 10 | Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’ |
| 11 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 12 | A significant number of subjects ( 7/37 ) , however , had food reflux that was outside one standard deviation from the mean , whereas only one of these subjects would have had a positive reflux score by measuring acid alone . |
| 13 | Bouvard et Pécuchet would have been finished ; Madame Bovary might have been suppressed ( how seriously do we take Gustave 's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book ? a little seriously ) ; and L'Education sentimentale might have had a different ending . |
| 14 | Vessels may have been used for eating , drinking , containing and carrying liquids , but each type may have had a specific function such as the use of open bowls as lamps . |
| 15 | Aside from running their hands over the dog 's body and legs , checking its conformation , judges may want to have a clear view of the dog 's mouth , to check , for example , that the jaws are neither under or overshot , according to the breed standard . |
| 16 | Therefore , Leapor may have had a considerable influence on the choice of poems to be printed . |
| 17 | Yet , however great the pain , the effect of a technical tactic may fail to have a lasting impact in such a bear market . |
| 18 | However , it did not resolve the crucial question : Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang , a beginning of time ? |
| 19 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 20 | The Conservatives might seem to have a legitimate claim as the largest single party ; but they had failed to obtain a mandate for Protection . |
| 21 | This says that ‘ greater freedom of communication by those professional advisers to the regulators might have had a significant effect on subsequent action , and hence on the later course of events ’ . |
| 22 | I believe that we in Scotland would like to have a similar facility . |
| 23 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 24 | Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country . |
| 25 | Conversely , in an economy where energy costs are high and fuel conservation is the fashion , the expensive motor car with a high petrol consumption will tend to have a short life cycle , but the economy car will continue for years . |
| 26 | The resultant high temperatures and high humidities could have had a disastrous effect on both land and marine faunas . |
| 27 | ‘ Only a handful may have had a minor invasive procedure , ’ said Dr Peter Povey , Bolton 's director of public health , adding the risk to patients was negligible . |
| 28 | The number of sympathisers able to support IRA operations on the Continent is smaller than in Northern Ireland , so the recruitment of a few informers may have had a disproportionate effect . |
| 29 | The site is only four miles from Corinium and this has led to the speculation that the establishment may have had a special function in a large estate . |
| 30 | The plaintiff must have had a genuine freedom of choice before the defence can be successfully raised against him . |