Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The High Authority seemed to have a wide brief on fiscal matters such as taxes and levies , as well as upon production and restrictive practices . |
| 2 | The public were a ‘ voice offstage ’ to be used by each side in their threats , but only in the last resort was public debate considered to have a useful role in decision making . |
| 3 | The daily broadsheet began to have a double fascination for Charlie , as he started to take an interest in the advertisements displayed on almost every page . |
| 4 | The British public appears to have an increasing appetite for the work of sensitive female singer-songwriters telling us about their tangled emotional lives , and Julia Fordham is the latest high-flier to fulfill the need . |
| 5 | The assumed humility seemed to have a soothing effect upon Major Tzann . |
| 6 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
| 7 | With the European Community continuing to have a major impact on the key corporate tax planning issues associated with operations in mainland Europe , and with the wide divergence of personal tax practices and rules globally , keeping abreast of developments is essential for all practitioners . |
| 8 | In the context of such an overwhelming victory for phallocracy , the BBC 's weird decision to focus its hype on Peter Snow 's giant swingometer seems to have a certain symbolic logic . |
| 9 | It was a good marketing move to have a worldwide celebrity on your photographs . |
| 10 | The legal profession seems to have a distinct image and the number of matters which are identified by the public as appropriate to a solicitor is relatively narrow . |
| 11 | Any legal system has to have an ideological base which represents an ideological alliance between the ruling class and other classes and class fractions . |
| 12 | The fullerene-road mechanism seems to have a similar failing ; there must still be sufficient small radicals around when the smaller fullerenes have developed for growth to continue . |
| 13 | A spot of the iced liquid seemed to have a calming effect on my larynx . |
| 14 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 15 | ( See Table ) Peter Brooke , educated at Marlborough , Balliol College , Oxford and Harvard , is an old-school Tory known to have a keen interest in pictures and in conservation , especially of churches . |
| 16 | Temporary work seems to have an important role to play in the transition from unemployment to employment . |
| 17 | In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) . |
| 18 | Each infantry battalion and armoured regiment had to have an operational ‘ peg ’ , but much of the sting was taken out of the Sandys Reformation , as far as the Army was concerned , by many of its regiments having 2nd and 3rd battalions , which could be amalgamated with 1st battalions as National Servicemen ran out , thus preserving regimental traditions . |
| 19 | In particular , the terminal ileum seems to have an important role in the regulation of small intestinal transit . |
| 20 | The Communist Party continued to have a strong base in local government , although on Nov. 16 , 1990 , legislation was adopted by the Federal Assembly confiscating its assets [ see p. 37865 ] . |
| 21 | UV light seems to have a particular penchant for DNA , and the chemical changes that UV radiation causes in it are manifest as genetic mutations . |
| 22 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 23 | Any new module needs to have a distinct identity and market — SCOTVEC feels that it would be confusing to employers to have a proliferation of modules and titles and so the Catalogue sub-committee will not accept a new proposal if it thinks that the same outcomes can be achieved by suitable fleshing-out of an existing module . |
| 24 | Prevalence of respiratory symptoms was not associated with birth weight , but children with lower gestational age tended to have a greater prevalence of frequent and occasional wheeze regardless of their birth weight ( table III ) . |
| 25 | During their pre-Christmas cocktail rounds , Western diplomats have bantered to their Soviet colleagues that Romania was the one country where the Soviet Union deserved to have a free hand . |
| 26 | Direct expenditure by the federal government on investment has been virtually eliminated since the adoption of the 1974 Constitution , but , as we shall see below , the federal government continues to have an important indirect influence on investment through its control over the level of bank credits . |
| 27 | ‘ Problems occur when sex , or any other addiction starts to have a negative effect on the rest of a person 's life . |
| 28 | The Labour party seems to have a new-found concern about the level of borrowing , but I must advise the Opposition that if they are serious about that , they could pay for their programme only by increases in taxation . |
| 29 | The head porter needs to have an exceptional memory for names and faces , and be a fountain of knowledge in order to deal with the numerous enquiries of the guests . |
| 30 | On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers . |