Example sentences of "have [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has rather a thing about patchwork . |
| 2 | Arthur has rather a light teaching load . |
| 3 | As the above photograph suggests , American artist , photographer and video-maker William Wegman has rather a penchant for doggies of all shapes and sizes , and his work is positively littered with them . |
| 4 | For any given latitude the Pole star has effectively a constant altitude and the other stars Appear to revolve around it owing to the Earth 's diurnal rotation . |
| 5 | It has annually a very gay season during the days of the Highland games , when balls are held . |
| 6 | If this is indeed the case , he has obviously a very wide range of choices available to him . |
| 7 | The corollary is that some catalogue information has only a limited life , since it may in its turn be overtaken by new research . |
| 8 | There was a very light cross wind from the right which caused a swing in that direction , and as the Nimbus has only a tail-skid , it swung as it started its take-off run . |
| 9 | The sector to the right ( The Quiquillon ) has only a few hard climbs , but its other side , hidden from the village and approached from a parking place reached by driving through a housing estate just before the village , has many fine , steep routes , often with three pitches , at all standards . |
| 10 | The infamous Berlin Wall now has only a few vestiges remaining . |
| 11 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 12 | Howe still needs a goalkeeper on loan because David Seaman has only a slender chance of returning on Saturday and his two deputies are injured . |
| 13 | Unlike industry rivals such as Guinness , Highland has only a relatively small export business — about a third of its sales . |
| 14 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 15 | This ammonite has only a few strong ribs , with a number of small tubercles in addition . |
| 16 | ‘ The USSR has only a small number of private cars , ’ says Bashmekov . |
| 17 | The town , sprawling along the side of Lake Managua , has only a handful of buildings over one storey and is without any identifiable centre . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience . |
| 20 | That is to say , the order of a language is determined in some domain that transcends the language , rather than within the language itself , which has only a symbolic relationship with the domain in question . |
| 21 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 22 | The amazing naked cat — the Canadian Sphynx — lacks both guard and awn hairs and has only a soft fuzz of down hairs on its extremities . |
| 23 | Often what happens in the context of a church service has only a limited effect as well . |
| 24 | The left has only a small window of opportunity in which to put its views across ; it needed every week and month it could get . |
| 25 | In general , each neuron has only a single transmitter , such as acetylcholine , noradrenaline or dopamine . |
| 26 | In any event , Girobank has only a broadly similar number of private customers to those with the Co-op Bank , and if anything perhaps rather less money available for lending to them . |
| 27 | A smaller 9.6 volt model is also offered , but this has only a 330mm ( 13in ) cutting capacity , and takes 12 hours to recharge . |
| 28 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 29 | The Americans are world champions and half a second faster than the British best — but I can redress that balance just by telling Christie he has only a dog 's chance . |
| 30 | The SRP60N ribber can be set like this , but you can also use the autoset lever to produce a fabric that has only a single colour on the reverse . |