Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An industrial manager at any level should endeavour to have a clear view of the future , and the role that he would like his business to play in that future . |
| 2 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 3 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 4 | football may have had a rough old week … but we 've got some celebrating to do now … |
| 5 | Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’ |
| 6 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 7 | Bouvard et Pécuchet would have been finished ; Madame Bovary might have been suppressed ( how seriously do we take Gustave 's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book ? a little seriously ) ; and L'Education sentimentale might have had a different ending . |
| 8 | Vessels may have been used for eating , drinking , containing and carrying liquids , but each type may have had a specific function such as the use of open bowls as lamps . |
| 9 | Yet , however great the pain , the effect of a technical tactic may fail to have a lasting impact in such a bear market . |
| 10 | However , it did not resolve the crucial question : Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang , a beginning of time ? |
| 11 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 12 | Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country . |
| 13 | Conversely , in an economy where energy costs are high and fuel conservation is the fashion , the expensive motor car with a high petrol consumption will tend to have a short life cycle , but the economy car will continue for years . |
| 14 | ‘ Only a handful may have had a minor invasive procedure , ’ said Dr Peter Povey , Bolton 's director of public health , adding the risk to patients was negligible . |
| 15 | The site is only four miles from Corinium and this has led to the speculation that the establishment may have had a special function in a large estate . |
| 16 | The plaintiff must have had a genuine freedom of choice before the defence can be successfully raised against him . |
| 17 | So utilitarian deterrence might justify having a penal system , but does not justify the one we actually have . |
| 18 | The removal of a large section of the landed and business sections of the community would have had a devastating effect on the province as a whole , and especially its economy . |
| 19 | That teacher would have had a different attitude if Nader had been around . |
| 20 | Each business will need to have a solid safety net of low risk performance areas , whose task will be to reduce the cost base to the absolute minimum , supporting a much smaller proportion of high risk , hopefully high return ventures . |
| 21 | But while they look broadly similar across the industry , being between 1 and 2 per cent , even this small difference can start to have a significant effect on returns over longer periods . |
| 22 | Rather than view the Sancton-Baston pottery as the products of individual potters or workshops ( Myres 1969 ; 1977 ) , the fact that five sets of dies were cut to produce a minimum of nine vessels suggests that the decoration of the pottery may have had a totemic significance to individual families . |
| 23 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 24 | Were perception conceived of differently , it is quite likely that the decision tree would have had a different structure and led to different conclusions . |
| 25 | What sort of crazy person would choose to have a hard time ? |
| 26 | He also considered that the nature of the terrain in this area may have had a marked effect on forecast wind conditions . |
| 27 | For those widowed or bereaved in other ways , victory must have had a hollow sound . |
| 28 | The Library is restricted in its efforts in this direction by the traditional layout of the present Exhibition Room , and it is clearly desirable that , when resources permit , the Library should contrive to have a new Exhibition Room adapted to the requirements of modern exhibitions . |
| 29 | Monitor theory and reinforcement theory would seem to have a good deal in common . |
| 30 | To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ? |