Example sentences of "[adv] have a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should therefore be a significant and fluctuating gravitational red shift of the pulsar period P : which numerically has an amplitude of order . |
| 2 | The USSR apparently has a lead in radar equipment able to see through clouds . |
| 3 | The Queen obviously has a sense of humour , as was evident from her hamming it up for the cameras . |
| 4 | This man Gennaro obviously has a lot of influence even among the less desirable characters in this city , or at least in this part of it . |
| 5 | Er it obviously has a lot in common with other inner city areas . |
| 6 | Andrew Lawrence , sales manager from Pest Control London South , obviously has a liking for water . |
| 7 | The Christian faith is a view of history ; a process which not only has a beginning in creation but an end signalled by the personal return of Jesus Christ and the establishment of ‘ a new heavens and a new earth ’ . |
| 8 | Prior to that it only has a potential for value . |
| 9 | But as President Bush puts more goods on the counter for us with his TV spiel about ’ … our culture , our sense of history … rolling green fields , sandy white beaches , red-hot jazz , ’ is he selling caviare to a market that only has an appetite for candy floss ? |
| 10 | Christianity , as we have seen , necessarily has an anchor in history . |
| 11 | A Hungarian living in Edinburgh taped the pronunciation of difficult place names and luckily one of our team had lived in Hungary , so had a wealth of background information . |
| 12 | Edinburgh has long had a tradition of study of South Asia and also possesses comparatively rich library and archive resources in the University Library ( including New College Library ) , the School of Scottish Studies , the National Library of Scotland and the National Record Office . |
| 13 | The Pic du Midi has long had an observatory on top , a very substantial structure indeed and occupied since I 88 I , after the scientists who started it had got into the arduous habit of spending their winters up here in a small hotel . |
| 14 | In 1979 a homebuyer would have only had a choice of repayment or the newly-popular endowment mortgages . |
| 15 | I mean , I do n't mind going up to their house , sitting down having a cup of tea and biscuit |
| 16 | I was only having a bit of fun . ’ |
| 17 | Tony Bailey , when he was talking just now , talked in terms of schools perhaps having an element of democracy within them . |
| 18 | In the history of the sciences in France , as in German critical theory , it is a matter at bottom of examining a reason , the autonomy of whose structures carries with it a history of dogmatism and despotism — a reason , consequently , which can only have an effect of emancipation on condition that it manages to liberate itself from itself . |
| 19 | He said , ‘ You 'd better have a rest after tea . |
| 20 | Well you 'd better have a cup of coffee or . |
| 21 | He was bent over the prow of a little wooden sailboat — he was obviously having a rest from speedboat practice today — and was busily tightening something with a big screwdriver . |
| 22 | Many of my tutors have said that one of the most salutary of their experiences has been to work with a good adult class , which starts with no preconceptions , does n't necessarily have a qualification in mind , and ask the kind of questions which would tend to be asked say in Swift 's Gulliver Travels . |
| 23 | They do not necessarily have a lot of money but they do expect good value and a broad service . |
| 24 | Clara had had the sense not to try to ask her mother about a possible purchase , as she could only too clearly imagine the responses to which such a request would expose her , and the abuse which would be cast upon those girls fortunate enough to have a use for party dresses . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's small enough to have a sort of family atmosphere . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Ianthe has invited us in to have a glass of sherry , ’ she said , hoping that Ianthe would invite Rupert too . |
| 27 | Because there 's only a couple , they only had a couple of security guards did n't they ? |
| 28 | Now I can only remember one thing about it : a passage which refers to the death by starvation of a girl in Paris because she only had a pint of milk and a loaf of bread a day . |
| 29 | The exit-entrance distinction was found to be more specific for depression , and people who attempted suicide not only had an excess of exit events , but also an excess of entrance events . |
| 30 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |