Example sentences of "have an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has an extraordinary reputation . |
| 2 | The skilled thinker has an extraordinary facility not only to develop varieties of abstract models but also to switch rapidly between them and between them and reality . |
| 3 | In fact , he has an extraordinary repertoire of mannerisms , all of which could be reasonably mistaken for possession of one kind or another . |
| 4 | She has an extraordinary gift , as she is telekinetic and so has the power to make things happen through thought-transmission . |
| 5 | If he is under 24 , and has not been charged with this offence before and has an honest belief on reasonable grounds that the girl was above 16 , he will have a defence . |
| 6 | Old oak has an honest , pungent , lusty smell as you would expect . |
| 7 | The Pains of Sleep has an unrelenting quality of nightmare . |
| 8 | Man has an undeniable need for a God and for a religion corresponding to that God . |
| 9 | it has an adverse effect on your decision making . |
| 10 | The majority of evidence appears to support the concept that hypertension has an adverse effect on prognosis in the diabetic . |
| 11 | We should question the centrality of sex , as this has an adverse and marginalising effect on other relationships . |
| 12 | ‘ Accident ’ means an unintended occurrence which has an adverse physical result ( R v Morris [ 19721 A11 ER 384 ) . |
| 13 | Whether this actually has an adverse effect on sales is unproven . |
| 14 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , stress has an adverse effect on all individuals who become its victims , that is to say , for example , sickness , loss of income , unhappiness , poor relationships , negative attitudes , loss of motivation . |
| 16 | The increased salinity has an adverse impact on the dyke flora , threatening the habitat and also affecting stock grazing on the marshes . |
| 17 | As long as the specimen has an accessible surface that is greater than about 2 cm in diameter and is unattacked by a suitable coupling liquid , the method will yield all the moduli together with Poisson 's ratio in five minutes plus the time taken to do the required calculations . |
| 18 | A most useful dictionary ( although not called such ) for the country historian , a copy of which has an honoured place in the author 's library , is Old Country and Farming Words by James Britten ( The English Dialect Society , London 1880 ) . |
| 19 | Instead of saying that a person feels a pain in his foot it might be less misleading to say that he has an in-the-foot pain . |
| 20 | Similarly , one can say that a bodily sensation has the intrinsic quality of being a tingle , or is hall-marked ‘ tingling ’ , but not that it has an in-the-foot quality . ) |
| 21 | By the wider public he will be remembered as a composer whose style , founded in practical music-making , has an immediate appeal which rewards both performers and audiences . |
| 22 | Every cloud of dust on the road has an immediate response from the German mortars . |
| 23 | This has an immediate effect on the workload at the CAB where claimants often go when they can not get satisfaction at the Department of Social Security . |
| 24 | Black can not defend the threat of Q-Kt7 mate but has an immediate win by pressing home his own attack . |
| 25 | What has been said about Tolkien 's poetry has an immediate bearing on that most attractive but least tractable subject , ‘ Tolkien 's mythology ’ . |
| 26 | It is all too easy to assume that formal regulation has an immediate unilinear impact , but in actuality the history of sexuality is as much a history of an avoidance of , or resistance to , the moral code , as of a simple acceptance and internalisation . |
| 27 | Even if you do n't go into consumer public relations which has an immediate relationship to selling , you will get to know the public as a consumer , get to understand how business is done , what product selling points are all about , and finally , learn how to sell yourself . |
| 28 | Although a strengthening of the US dollar/£ exchange rate has an immediate upward impact upon gearing , a stronger US dollar produces increased sterling revenues and improved interest cover and earnings despite the increase , in sterling terms , of US dollar costs . |
| 29 | Yet a sizeable turnover is required for a successful market : given the concern with the structure of the London capital market , and increasing international competition between markets , analysis of what determines turnover has an immediate relevance . |
| 30 | Treatment debulks the tumour and has an immediate beneficial effect on bleeding and discharge but disease is left in the rectal wall and beyond the lumen in local nodes so tumour regrowth occurs fairly rapidly . |