Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But only 200,000 have taken a leap into the dark to buy non-privatised quoted shares . |
| 2 | But I was real familiar with his records and so I knew it was gon na be that way ; in fact it was really kinda fun to have to take a guess at when he was gon na change . |
| 3 | They seem to have disregarded one immediately evident aspect of Mr Fraser 's life ; it being Fair Day at Strichen he had guests at lunch , one of whom had at least been sufficiently energetic to have attended a lecture Dr Johnson gave at Lichfield . |
| 4 | She was very hospitable , made Jane sit down , was friendly to the dogs , brought coffee , then sat down herself , obviously overjoyed to have found a neighbour . |
| 5 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 6 | Joyce and Rourke were just happy to have found a dream lifestyle though they occasionally questioned why their pockets were still empty . |
| 7 | Once each has had a turn , the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs . |
| 8 | Secretly , though I had every sympathy for Surkov , I thought him much more likely to have raped a woman when drunk than Miss Hayes-Drummond was to have made a false accusation . |
| 9 | Women in second marriages are more likely to have had an affair than those in their first , and women who work full-time are , it seems , more prone to extra-curricular passions than either part-time workers or housewives . |
| 10 | After birth they were more likely to have shared a bed with another person than non-Maori infants ( χ 2 =42 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) . |
| 11 | As he raised a curious eyebrow she elaborated with satisfaction , ‘ I can think of someone far more likely to have put a torch to G.W. Fashions than myself . ’ |
| 12 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 13 | It would have been far more threatening to have attempted a simulation of a ‘ round the graveside ’ dramatic playing . |
| 14 | But traditionally neither has had an organization capable of responding to commercial pressures . |
| 15 | We waited patiently to see how the new Council would emerge , and we are now delighted to have established a Partnership Plan between ourselves and CCW . |
| 16 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is full-back Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 17 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is fullback Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 18 | More than 10% of those who are currently sexually active have had a vasectomy . |
| 19 | The flat that was usually so attractively private had become a trap . |
| 20 | People who had attempted suicide were also particularly likely to have experienced an excess of events beyond their own control , which were rated as undesirable , and scaled as major or intermediate in terms of upset . |
| 21 | At work you are quite likely to have to follow a house style . |
| 22 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 23 | It 's very sad to have to comfort a man who 's lost his 14 year old boy . |
| 24 | ‘ Vinny should count himself very , very lucky to have made a lot of money out of football without having any ability . |
| 25 | I think I was very lucky to have had a year in school , and therefore to know that ‘ real ’ teaching was not like School Practice . |
| 26 | He 'd loved her mother devotedly , and had married at twenty — surely too young to have had a past ? |