Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech .
32 ‘ Well , we 'll just have to have a male crone for today , ’ replied Miss Thorne in a dangerously quiet voice .
33 Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself .
34 Even if soil temperature is generally found to have a minimal influence on root mortality , the fact that rates of fine root turnover can vary substantially among virtually identical ecosystems needs to be reconciled with current knowledge and models of below-ground processes that do not account for this phenomenon .
35 These would have been largely overcome had a similar approach to that used in setting up the " persons " system been adopted .
36 The performance of modern gliders makes it much easier and more likely for a pilot to fly himself into a potential death trap unless he uses his imagination or has already learned to have a healthy respect for the elements .
37 If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it .
38 ‘ I think you just have to have a flexible mind , ’ said Masklin , knowing even as he said the words that this probably was n't going to be a lot of help .
39 suddenly thought you still got to have a little holdall membership forms in it , have n't you ?
40 Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination , you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt .
41 ‘ I still expect to have a substantial interest in the day-to-day running of the club and my assistant Lil Fuccillo will be appointed manager . ’
42 DARLINGTON Health Authority yesterday pledged to have a special unit for leukaemia patients open and fully staffed by August .
43 ‘ I always like to have a good look round the Abbey . ’
44 She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life .
45 He always seems to have a sore throat and a fever , so I do n't like to leave him when he 's not well .
46 At the same time , it builds a prison-house of rhetoric from which there may be no practical possibility of escape : as later with the writings of Baudrillard , their critique , in its totalizing embrace , always seems to have a neutralizing answer to suggestions of difference .
47 Despite losses of 46 billion won ( $65m ) last year , Asiana still aims to have a sizeable fleet of 68 aircraft by 1999 .
48 And , if he had moved any farther down the course , would he still have had a clear view of Captain Brown waving his flag to signal a false start ?
49 The brick and stone-built cone is sixty feet high , and was saved from demolition in 1962 by excavations which showed its importance as an industrial monument , this area of Yorkshire once having had a thriving glass industry .
50 You do not always have to have a specific link to other items on the syllabus .
51 We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter .
52 Because of these difficulties and the commercial desire that once a company is to be sold its sale should be completed as soon as possible , the parties usually try to have a simultaneous signing and completion .
53 Being a Madonna devotee has always involved having a selective memory .
54 This self-confessedly wilful boy always contrived to have a great deal of his own way and seemed able to follow his bent whenever the weather permitted .
55 The Leeds manager always appeared to have a slight reservation about the gifted Frenchman 's ability to adapt to England .
56 Since I 've been involved in er , in the partnerships we 've always tried to have a joint number one with Three Hills and Church Langley as I explained before and it 's always been a very difficult balancing act you know , to keep both going along .
57 Let Spencer help you , my dear , my youngest son always did have a good head for figures . ’
58 ‘ You always did have a gallant streak , Jimmie , ’ Randall said , skirting the crowd .
59 Into our own time , many architectural historians confine themselves to that subject ; it has moreover continued to have a nostalgic appeal to novelists .
60 James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " .
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