Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe someone somewhere has got a good idea . |
| 2 | ‘ Bringing all this together has required a great deal of planning , co-operation between numerous organisations and many long hours of work , ’ he added . |
| 3 | If in doubt whether a particular matter is relevant , a good test is to ask yourself whether , if the examiner had wished you to discuss it , he would naturally have framed an extra question upon it . |
| 4 | Thus , if pursuant to the will of X the property is vested in Y as legatee and Y subsequently sells the property for £550,000 , Y will only have made a taxable gain ( subject to the indexation allowance ) of £50,000 . |
| 5 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
| 6 | Unfortunately they are not usually repeatable , so having made a superb jumper for your mother , you will probably be unable to make one for yourself . |
| 7 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
| 8 | Merseyside fire brigade spokesman Ken London said : ‘ It is bad enough having to tackle a serious fire without having stones thrown at you as well . ’ |
| 9 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 10 | However , I was lucky enough to have joined a tolerant company that believed in giving people a chance . |
| 11 | They are simply people who are lucky enough to have landed a free trip to a holiday destination , a trip paid for by an airline , a tour company , a hotel chain or any combination of the three . |
| 12 | In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i . |
| 13 | In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question . |
| 14 | Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) . |
| 15 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |
| 16 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
| 17 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 18 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 19 | The corridor they had travelled along had turned an abrupt corner and then ended at a blank , curved wall . |
| 20 | Their effects can not be isolated from the HLCA system ; in essence it has been the availability of substantial levels of grant plus the guarantee of HLCAs on the increased numbers of animals which can be kept on the agriculturally improved grassland , which together have constituted a substantial incentive for such capital improvements . |
| 21 | You only have to take a little bit off ai n't enough to go under your nose . |
| 22 | The truth is ladies you only have to touch a bald man and you light up like Blackpool Tower . |
| 23 | But , you only have to earn a little bit and you lose your benefit . |
| 24 | To these people , we not only have to offer an attractive package but to be more visible , especially during these troubled times . |
| 25 | That 's all you have , that 's only have to have a little bit . |
| 26 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 27 | So and so 's , so and so 's lame , and so and so 's got a big leg so and so caught hiself this morning , had an overreach . |
| 28 | Second , by embracing collective entrepreneurship , the Japanese especially have found a different way to achieve competitive advantage while maintaining high real wages . |
| 29 | He no longer has to enter a conditional appearance , since that practice was abolished when acknowledgements of service were introduced , but must file his acknowledgement and give notice of intention to defend and then issue his application to set aside service and the renewal order within 14 days . |
| 30 | The demand for bank lending will fall , not because of a rise in the ‘ own ’ rate of interest on bank loans but because the fall in interest rates elsewhere has caused a relative rise in bank interest rates . |