Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 2 | But he 'd still much rather have a new pair of football boots at Christmas . |
| 3 | I 'd much rather have a plain name I know what they 're talking about then . |
| 4 | She has managed their staff restaurant for 18 years , so obviously has a great relationship with our clients . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought we 'd better just have a quiet word together before we go down and see the kids on the beach , ’ Ben was saying as Carole bustled back into the room , carrying a tray laden with plates of cakes and biscuits . |
| 6 | She had only ever had a vague impression of Frank Shildon and was interested in how far that was at variance with what she was discovering . |
| 7 | Zeolite and many of the resins become fully charged and must be soaked in salt water , or better still have a steady trickle of salt water running to waste through them to recharge them . |
| 8 | However , one suspects that the transition is illusory since the formidable constraints to translating techniques into widely-adopted practice only become fully apparent when the project is big enough potentially to have a significant impact . |
| 9 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 10 | Fresh tap water is usually heavily treated with chemicals and often chlorinated strongly enough actually to have a chemical smell . |
| 11 | Beyond a few exceedingly brief encounters at dances attended by soldiers stationed around Barnard Castle , she apparently never had a romantic association . |
| 12 | It is considered better therefore to have a longer set of allowable candidate strings which includes the correct word although this may often include rarely occurring words . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course you 're suggesting the side lines were n't legitimate and this may be hindsight , but now I look back Mr Hatton did perhaps occasionally have a shady air about him when he talked of them . |
| 14 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | Just just have a quick look at it . |
| 16 | It would thus still have a two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly . |
| 17 | An electron no longer always had a specific location . |
| 18 | The two enquiries above clearly have a common source — delays at the DHSS — but the bureaux recording system would not have highlighted that difficulty . |
| 19 | At present in the UK , each company has a board of directors which manages its affairs ; directors are elected , and may be removed , by shareholders in general meeting , and a general meeting normally also has a residual power , by a special resolution ( proposed as such and carried by a 75 per cent majority of the shares voted ) , to give a management direction to the board . |
| 20 | Hanson lost out to Tomkins in its last big bid , for Ranks Hovis MacDougall , and anyway now has a lowly share rating with a yield well above the market average at about six per cent . |
| 21 | It 'd be rather like having a lovely picture that you thought was a genuine old master and then being told it was a fake . |
| 22 | All that mattered was that we had reached the summit , and more importantly had a good day out . |
| 23 | As I work in the Middle East , I usually only have a short space of time while I 'm home to sort out my musical needs and Colin from my local store , Heads Hands and Feet , has helped me tremendously over the years . |
| 24 | And I think an over sixty no matter who they are , they would still just have a small return . |
| 25 | Howard Hughes hardly ever had a close friend . |
| 26 | Queen 's , who lost to Collegians yesterday still have a mathematical chance . |
| 27 | A delicatessen will usually also have a good selection of nuts — Brazils , pecans , pistachios , walnuts and cashews — all of which are invaluable in a vegetarian diet . |
| 28 | So here ended my first tour and I could not claim that I ever actually had a clear view of any German target , save that which we did locate with the aid of Jimmy Marks ' experiment northeast of Rotterdam in mid-June 1940 . |
| 29 | On closer inspection this turned out to be the L'Chaim Society , a Jewish good-time gang which presumably also has a stout approach to Judaism . |
| 30 | True , she probably still had a long way to go . |