Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if ever there is a chance , send us a sign that you are free and have made a place . |
| 2 | It has been mostly left to outsiders to remark that knowledge of the structure of DNA has made possible and has enforced a change of thinking about the nature of living things . |
| 3 | I hope I never go deaf and have to wear a hearing-aid ; it will sound like the Atlantic rollers crashing up over the rocks at Land 's End . |
| 4 | The court was told the woman became pregnant and had to have an abortion . |
| 5 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 6 | I had got totally pissed and had to do a gig that night . |
| 7 | By the time I reached her signature I was half-packed and had called a taxi for Paddington station . |
| 8 | He recovered but at the age of 22 was left almost completely bald and had to wear a wig , a fashion he discarded in the heat of India . |
| 9 | She had resigned from her ambulance unit because her own mother was ill and had rented a house outside Glasgow so that she could look after her and still be near the port when their father 's ship came in . |
| 10 | Was it however so paradoxical as to have dealt a death blow to the theory ? |
| 11 | The Forestry Commission also are most helpful and have produced a set of pamphlets on their Woodland Grant Scheme , which can be obtained from the Forestry Commission , Private Woodlands Branch , 231 Costorphine Road , Edinburgh EH12 7AT . |
| 12 | The glass of the door to the patio was bumpy , mottled and had deflected a ray of sunlight on to Hosanna as he basked on the step , making him golden , religious . |
| 13 | The Commissioner had gone too far and had given a ruling that would have had the effect of preventing the Crown from leading evidence which , as a matter of law , was admissible . |
| 14 | Since about 1979 , the plaintiff had been keen to sell Caliban and had employed a number of estate agents for that purpose , including apparently the defendants . |
| 15 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 16 | so can you can you get one that 's twice as big that 's called a john ? |
| 17 | Tom had swept the room clean and had fixed a lamp to a hook on the white plaster ceiling . |
| 18 | There 's nothing more frustrating than having to waste a couple of days — or more — of your precious summer break recovering from stomach upsets . |
| 19 | Meeting for the first time in Bonn in January ( see Nature 361 , 576 ; 1993 ) , the councils are trying to make EC-supported international research programmes more efficient and have scheduled a meeting in London in October to discuss the issue . |
| 20 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 21 | It is significant that having conducted a review of the ‘ state of the art ’ in these areas , and drawn up a list of generalisations about the change process in education , Bolam cautions that generalisations ‘ should be regarded as working hypotheses and pointers for future study since their basis in research is weak ’ . |
| 22 | Since then , the Committee has been remarkably active and has staged a number of public vigils and occupations of buildings . |