Example sentences of "[adv] have [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This commitment grew out of profound emotional changes over which he had no control , and of which he himself perhaps had only an imperfect knowledge . |
| 2 | I 've just had rather a disturbing meeting with one of my girlfriends . ’ |
| 3 | The Trobriand Islanders , studied by Malinowski , are matrilineal , but do not have either a totemic structure or totemic rituals . |
| 4 | The uncertainty principle says that particles can not have both a well-defined position and a well-defined velocity . |
| 5 | In this approach , a particle does not have just a single history , as it would in a classical theory . |
| 6 | Angela soon had quite a bright idea . |
| 7 | Beaked whales generally have only a single pair of teeth protruding from their lower jaw , and instead of teeth they use a ribbed palate to get a firm grasp on their prey . |
| 8 | D. Although jobs in light industry are increasing , with a few in each town , the region still has only a small proportion of its workers in manufacturing . |
| 9 | The emphasis , in other words , is upon good management rather than policy , an approach influenced partly by the need to minimize opposition from policy-conscious Whitehall departments , and partly because in the private sector-from which the managerial approach has largely been adopted — decision-making usually has only a limited policy content . |
| 10 | You know she never has liked village people , and she 's always had rather a squashing way towards kids . |
| 11 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 12 | Hnatiuk at the bank said he 's always had quite a good balance in his savings account — for a kid — and he 's deposited quite a bit of money recently . |
| 13 | Individual service departments usually have quite a clear understanding of their own legal responsibilities , but are often not too sure how their work relates to other parts of the local authority empire . |
| 14 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 15 | To me , the smell is not unlike fresh human ‘ BO ’ , but a bit sweeter ; it also has quite a peppery hint to it and a touch of wood smoke . |
| 16 | I 'm not really sure how I became friends with the boy , but he also has quite a good personality , + I can have a good laugh with him . |
| 17 | In the case of Jupiter it has probably had only a small effect on the rate of loss of heat . |
| 18 | We had both had quite a happy day ; but as the sun began to creep round to the west and to decline , I had a feeling of unease . |
| 19 | It also had quite a large choir for so small a Church , a photo taken in the twenties showing the choir outside the old Church with Mrs Still 's husband and son . |
| 20 | I remember November 5 , 1953 , when a tendency to clear up had rather a disastrous consequence . |
| 21 | But you also have only a little time . |
| 22 | Chris bumped his head again while snorkelling and now has rather an impressive bandage ! |
| 23 | I 'm told that Brian Summers put up some money to get the company started and now has quite a significant slice of the Supersight action . ’ |
| 24 | They can also create audiences for books which before had only a slight following , and sometimes the making of a film leads to success for the author of the book on which the film was based simply as an author . |
| 25 | I think I will look back on this day and think , I really had quite a distressing haircut did n't I , but also that this was the first day I was introduced to the humour of Vic and Bob . |
| 26 | The Christian base on Cyprus was of immense strategic importance for the crusaders , who now had both a jumping-off point for their armies and a supply base which was virtually impregnable . |
| 27 | Since rainfall controls plant growth , and plants are the base of the food pyramid , deserts typically have only a short period when food is abundant ; it is during this time that the creatures of the desert must complete their breeding cycle . |
| 28 | Many villages , especially in Persia , which have long been associated with highly sophisticated work , have either ceased weaving altogether or produce so few examples that they now have only an historic relevance to the contemporary scene . |
| 29 | I would love to play at Molineux , but at the moment I do n't have even a slight hope . |
| 30 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |