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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | However , I was lucky enough to have joined a tolerant company that believed in giving people a chance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 14 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You only have to take a little bit off ai n't enough to go under your nose . |
| 18 | I only have to go a few quid over and I get snooty letters threatening to take it off me . |
| 19 | The truth is ladies you only have to touch a bald man and you light up like Blackpool Tower . |
| 20 | But , you only have to earn a little bit and you lose your benefit . |
| 21 | That 's all you have , that 's only have to have a little bit . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Second , by embracing collective entrepreneurship , the Japanese especially have found a different way to achieve competitive advantage while maintaining high real wages . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past . |
| 28 | Mostly musicians spend their time jerking off in front of others and guitar and bass-playing readers are basically fans of the idea of that , but the truth is that it 's all individual — every neck on every guitar just has to feel a certain way . |
| 29 | Glad she had avoided meeting Mrs Farraday ( nee Corbett ) , whom she imagined as some Gorgon straight from the pages of George Eliot , Penny swung down the drive , wishing she had not had to assume a double load of exercise books to avoid her . |
| 30 | The company has already had to win a hard-fought battle with Telecom to get access to international telephone lines — a must for the type of customers it hopes to attract . |