Example sentences of "[verb] to have a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlining the fact that the business was going nowhere , the transaction is not expected to have a material financial impact on either company . |
| 2 | The Fellow will be expected to have a strong quantitative background in Industrial or Financial Economics or similar research discipline and be capable of handling very large computerised data sets . |
| 3 | In order for a fighter to fight in the state of New Jersey , he has to have a thorough medical examination , so it 's hard for me to say . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ While everyone wants to have a nice looking bass , I think you have to get your priorities in order . |
| 5 | The DNA binding domain of the homologous protein of HSV-1 , Vmw175 , has been expressed in isolation and found to have a similar binding specificity to that of the intact protein ( 21,25,31 ) . |
| 6 | In their longitudinal study , they were surprised how many of the women who had been considered to have a supportive marital relationship when first interviewed became depressed after a later crisis . |
| 7 | Many policemen do appear to have a standard low opinion of black people , are convinced that the majority of the black population are criminal , and believe that a black person is guilty until he can , if he can , prove his innocence . |
| 8 | Er eventually we hope to have a little Victorian style garden here cos this is a bit bare and uninviting . |
| 9 | The district judges of Colombo and Kandy later came to have a similar independent status . |
| 10 | But the idea of a third TV channel in the Republic is now a dead duck , although the Government plans to have a modest Irish language TV channel on air in about a year . |
| 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 | ‘ Leicester is a city in which we should expect to have a good general bookshop , and we shall be looking for a bigger and better site in the city . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't expect to have a fresh young plant like you by my side , all my life . ’ |
| 14 | If you do elect to have a full structural survey you can , of course , leave it to your building society or bank to select a surveyor for you , and you need never come in contact with him . |
| 15 | We 're looking for six pairs of women — friends , mother and daughter , sisters , it does n't matter — both y of whom would like to have a radical new haircut , maybe a perm , or even a change of colour . |
| 16 | New Historicism is very adept at employing ‘ thick description ’ , a detailed skilful exposition of , usually , some text or document which has been largely critically bypassed previously , but which is shown to have a charged metaphoric function in revealing some facet of Renaissance culture . |
| 17 | It might be argued that the test procedure is thus shown to be at fault , since in all the above cases the first element can be shown to have a clear semantic function relative to the second element : in fact , it signals a sub-variety of the general category denoted by the second element . |
| 18 | Criticism has concentrated on the removal of the red coat worn by the Master of Ceremonies , which was shown to have a different binding agent in its pigment to the rest of the canvas and therefore considered not to be part of Veronese 's composition . |
| 19 | ‘ A pop song has got to have a good short title , ’ explains Fred . |
| 20 | " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said . |
| 21 | Now I 'm going to have a long cold drink in a quiet garden with my daughter and her new young man . |
| 22 | But we do know love will out , and despite a script with the credibility of a Jewish pigfarm , everyone 's going to have a brainless Friday-evening time of it getting there . |
| 23 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 24 | You can not expect the world always to come to you — you must go out and meet it sometimes if you are going to have a full social life . |
| 25 | I 'm going to have a little quick look at Ikea . |
| 26 | Questions set by the computer , which then supplies the answer for checking purposes after a randomly set time delay , seem to have a powerful motivating effect and are but one example of the effectiveness of the computer 's simulating the random elements which the pupil experiences in everyday life and work . |
| 27 | They seem to have a certain psychological reality for native speakers as units of knowledge in spite of their abnormality as units of behaviour . |
| 28 | If the questions seem to have a clear age-related bias , however , then you could ask : ‘ Are you a bit concerned about my age ? ’ |
| 29 | One long term symptomatic failure occurred in a demented 81 year old man who presented with obstructive symptoms and rectal discharge and was found to have a circumferential rectal lesion . |
| 30 | The presence of Barrett 's oesophagus was found to have a significant positive association with transit time in supine position ( p=0.003 ) and a negative association with lower oesophageal sphincter pressure ( p=0.05 ) . |