Example sentences of "[adv] have [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is in stark contrast to the position in the United States , where Congress alone has the formal power to declare war and the Senate 's consent is necessary for the ratification of treaties and the appointment of federal public officers . |
| 2 | Whether or not he does it , every person has a duty to God not to ‘ harm another in his life , … liberty , … or goods ’ , and so has a parallel right to defend himself against such attack . |
| 3 | So has the ex-Florence Nightingale found her ideal job or will she go back to looking after the sick ? |
| 4 | The position of a secured creditor is to be contrasted with that of an unsecured creditor who merely has a personal claim to sue for the payment of his debt and to invoke the available legal processes for the enforcement of any judgment that he may obtain . |
| 5 | But ‘ For A Child ’ only has a slight tempo shift , a trumpet solo and a blast of flugelhorn to give it some extra zest , and it 's simply not enough . |
| 6 | Even if you make a complete mess of it , the model only has a few inches to fall . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , apparently she only has a short time to live ; David came back to be with her — he 's even living at Brooklands . ’ |
| 8 | If , however , a bond only has a short time left to maturity , it will be much more liquid : its market price will be near its face value . |
| 9 | This position is echoed by Lehrer ( 1987 : 256 ) , who states that " to has no meaning of its own " , by Buyssens ( 1987 : 341 ) , who asserts that it is a " well-known fact that when the infinitive is used as the subject , the predicate , or the direct object of the sentence , it is normally preceded by a meaningless to " , and by Andersson ( 1985 : 57 ) , who distinguishes between the preposition to , which has a meaning , and the pure to infinitive marker , " which only has the syntactic function to introduce [ sic ] an infinitive " . |
| 10 | However , the numbers of divorces could be slightly misleading in that , not only has the general population risen in numbers , but marriage itself is more popular , as we saw earlier in this chapter . |
| 11 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that not only has the Conservative party demonstrated that it is willing to spend a greater proportion of gross national product , but , by continuing to expand our economy , we have surpassed the Labour party bid at the 1987 election — when it said that it would increase spending on the national health service by 3 per cent . |
| 12 | The Crown had long had an unquestioned right to commandeer ships from coastal towns . |
| 13 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 14 | He 'd obviously had a bad night had this poor bloke , you know . |
| 15 | The Reds , only having a small area to defend could communicate with each other and knew how to defeat the Whites . |
| 16 | At the same time it should be made clear that apart from false assumptions about matriculation , higher education should only have a small contribution to make to the range , standard and appositeness of 16+ and 18+ examination syllabuses and schemes of marking . |
| 17 | By the time it has been adzed out , you will only have a small edge to clean up as well as the underside . |
| 18 | When I asked Alison what qualities you need to be a marketing controller she said , ‘ you need to be able to establish immediate empathy with the people you are talking to as you may only have a short time to get the feedback you need . |
| 19 | Fortunately she had n't finished unloading the car , so would only have a single hold-all to carry back downstairs . |
| 20 | Following the Normansfield Report , the Secretary of State announced that the development team would henceforth have an inspectorial element added to its advisory service function , and health authorities were to be asked to review their arrangements for monitoring performance at individual hospitals . |
| 21 | He then turned to the Elixir of Life , only to have the magic formula stolen again , this time by a woman . |
| 22 | Not to mention the profit being made by private clinics when rich girls are flown in to have an artificial hymen put in so that the rituals of defloration may continue . |
| 23 | Well she only had a small party did n't she ? |
| 24 | He gunned the engine when he only had a few metres to go , felt the Jeep claw at the hard ground and hurtle forward . |
| 25 | So she says give us your twenty quid , cos she only had a few bits did n't she ? |
| 26 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 27 | A dedicated professional seaman , he practised his motor launches ( MLs ) , the motor gun boat ( MGB ) , and the modified motor torpedo boat ( MTB 74 ) operating in close company , manoeuvres they did not normally execute and only had a few weeks to learn . |
| 28 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 29 | Not only had a 30-minute journey taken one hour , but according to him , we 'd been brought back to where we started ! |
| 30 | she only had the bloody cheek to charge us last year for a turkey wrong , but I mean I did get that sorted out afterwards . |