Example sentences of "[verb] to have a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By contrast , those places which could be expected to have a predominantly European clientele , particularly at the hill stations , a sort of English country style was adopted to create the right atmosphere for a cool refreshing visit to the hills .
2 Conversely , construction and financial services were expected to have a more significant role .
3 While Doctor Who 's master minds shied away from narrative innovations — possibly fearful of losing standardised character identification tags , useful in cementing an audience 's interest — appearance-wise Susan was permitted to have a somewhat startling appearance .
4 The lateral arm plates appear to have a more open calcite skeleton giving the plate a spongy appearance .
5 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth appear to have a very intense relationship
6 In the Dusun language every clause has to have a grammatically marked topic ( i.e. the person or thing about which something is said ) , which is determined by the larger context ( at discourse level ) .
7 Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference .
8 In addition we clearly want to have a relatively small scale of capital fund available for a wide variety of the needs and I have identified leisure uses , traffic calming , environmental improvements , that 's the ones which I .
9 ‘ Coaching needs to have a much bigger presence if we are really to make a big impact .
10 To avoid such troubles , the water supply has to be freed from solid particles and needs to have a very low content of iron , manganese , aluminium , calcium , and magnesium .
11 Bank manager Hoey added : ‘ Neil needs to have a very good run at Portrush , and maybe even win something .
12 Transistor TR2 needs to have a very high h f e , which is why a BC109C is specified .
13 In the neotropics , the question of the maintenance of diversity of the rich epiphyte flora has been considered to have a partly physical explanation , though the germane physical features are generated by living hosts , i.e. the nature of bark surfaces .
14 Where a qualifying merger is considered to have a potentially adverse effect on the public interest , the Director General of Fair Trading may , as an alternative to a reference to the MCC , negotiate statutory undertakings with the parties relating to the separation or division of certain parts of the business .
15 In the world of manuscripts , ‘ miniature ’ has come to have a rather puzzling significance .
16 On this occasion , as an added piquancy , the festival promised to have a distinctly radical flavour .
17 To be able to do this successfully , you do need to have a reasonably good understanding of how to draw two dimensional shapes that , when knitted , will fit together to create three dimensional garments .
18 Until the last few years , the thought that one might have microscopic techniques sensitive enough to actually see tiny changes in the structure of neurons and their synapses as a result of learning seemed improbable — to start with , one would need to have a very good idea where to look and what to measure in the brain .
19 On the other hand a garden associated with an inner city dwelling will usually need to have a more formal approach .
20 However , we contrive to have a very pleasant time .
21 Since the alteration of the law on homosexual acts between consenting adults , there has been a startling increase in the number of male patients who are prepared to talk freely about their homosexuality , and this can only be to the good , as they do appear to have a considerably higher chance of acquiring certain of the sexually transmitted conditions .
22 In the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Law Merchant , apart from maritime law and prize law ( see p. 40 ) , was absorbed into the Common Law ; thus the law of such matters as Bills of Exchange came to be part of the law of the land , and came to have a specially English character .
23 There can also be little doubt that the devotional revolution had a significant impact on the life of local catholic communities , especially as social life came to have a very strong relationship to the local parish and its priests .
24 In later years Nietzsche came to have a more favourable attitude to these aspects of classical studies , but for the time being his dissatisfaction was almost unqualified .
25 ‘ They seemed to have a pretty good idea about what it might be .
26 Gooch recalled playing against Waqar at Chelmsford : ‘ The first impression was that he seemed to have a very long run-up but he is obviously a very fine fast bowler with the ability to swing , particularly the old ball . ’
27 They offered no theory as to why the child behaved in such a way , no external event was allowed an explanatory status ; rather the outburst was reflected back to the personality of the child , who was said to have a very angry liver ( the liver being the seat of inner states ) .
28 After the 1987 election Mrs Thatcher can claim to have a very clear mandate .
29 Existing rooms which need a face-lift or which you would like to have a completely new image are much more of a problem .
30 The preventative , the word preventative comes in so frequently , and particularly in the children 's services , I agree with the second one , it but I would like to have a more detailed report er , on that second element which is on page seven , the last item before you get to elderly people .
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