Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 During the past few years I have been fortunate enough to have a couple of RAF students each summer from the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham .
2 If you 're lucky enough to have a colour printer , you can also fiddle with text and background colours .
3 Sadly , unless you 're lucky enough to have a machine with a powerful processor and a large hard disk and you 've got wads of cash for each of these £300-plus packages , then it seems your dreams will come to nothing .
4 If you 're unlucky enough to have a machine that goes wrong regularly , a service contract may save you hundreds of pounds .
5 But if you 're in a general branch such as I am , which is made up from people of all sorts of industries that have come together because none of us are large enough to have a branch within our own industry on our own , then which section do we go to ?
6 If you are lucky enough to have a colour printer , or you just prefer to work with pretty colours , you can use a set of designer colour schemes designed , it would appear , by the world 's great composers .
7 for example , you are lucky enough to have a holiday abroad for two or three weeks but you have no access to scales and you also eat out all the time .
8 ‘ And for that matter , not many men are lucky enough to have a work-force composed entirely of beautiful women . ’
9 You 've been glad enough to have a doctor coming to see you every day — you , John , with your head broken … or you , George , sick and shaking with fever only a few hours ago .
10 Try to track down more details of either the EEC Standard Industrial Classification or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases than are given in Section 6.4.1. ( you may be lucky enough to have a sight of the complete listings or you may have to scan EEC or World Health Organization publications for information . )
11 I 'm lucky enough to have a diary full of opera engagements , and my recording schedule for the next couple of years is particularly exciting : Così with Mehta [ See our interview in the next issue ! — Ed. ] , a disc of Mozart arias , and a Magic Flute ( all for Sony ) , a Don Carlos with Levine , a Verdi Requiem , all the Schubert Masses , a Verdi recital , some Russian bass/baritone duets , and a recital of Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov songs with Alexis Weissenberg ! ’
12 Thanking Donal for his kindness , and giving him a friendly hug , she dutifully took the road he indicated — and then Ellie , being Ellie , decided would n't it be nice just to have a peek at the Wicklow mountains ?
13 ‘ It would be marvellous just to have a look . ’
14 Erm just before we break , erm it might be worthwhile just having a look at a few examples .
15 So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E .
16 I was there for the full week , being lucky enough to have a brother living in Crosby , so was able to take in most of the events and sights of interest , as well as having the pleasure of meeting old comrades at the Cunard Building
17 Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon .
18 It was useless to tell him that you were grown-up enough to have a mind of your own now .
19 This is home video , and if the person is not familiar with the text , then it is possible perhaps to have a libretto and translation to one side .
20 so she 's old enough to have a key .
21 When he is old enough to have a say in the matter he will change his name to Jack .
22 This is something to bear in mind when choosing your hotel room in a Basque village : it is picturesque assuredly to have a view of the frontón from your window , but it might not seem such a good idea if they start playing when you want to go to sleep .
23 If the owner is unfortunate enough to have a fall , the grey anorak will help him resemble a large rock when the RAF hover above , thus rendering him practically invisible .
24 It is important therefore to have a look at the reliefs and exemptions that may be available .
25 ‘ It 's small enough to have a sort of family atmosphere . ’
26 It 's bad enough to have a son of mine in this place .
27 At Glasgow School of Art , she was lucky enough to have a teacher who understood that an artist has to ‘ break down some kind of barrier within yourself ’ , transcending stifling Scottish morality .
28 We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it .
29 You were so young , at an age to want to experiment and to find a DJ a glamorous figure , that I imagined it was superficial enough to have a time limit on it .
30 Again , it was bad enough to have a surge associated with high spring tides , but it could have been associated with equinoctial springs seven weeks later with even more disastrous results .
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