Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in doubt whether a particular matter is relevant , a good test is to ask yourself whether , if the examiner had wished you to discuss it , he would naturally have framed an extra question upon it . |
| 2 | In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i . |
| 3 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 4 | To these people , we not only have to offer an attractive package but to be more visible , especially during these troubled times . |
| 5 | The court found that the pilot appeared to have confused the vertical speed instruments with the altitude indicator , and thus to have selected an inadequate altitude shortly before landing . |
| 6 | You just have to have an official order |
| 7 | Money sent home has become an important source of income for the country — especially from those who live in the United States and send remittances to their families in dollars . |
| 8 | She 'd always had to have an imaginary life simultaneously , as the real one was inadequate . |
| 9 | We would still have had an extremist council — not Labour , but Labour and Liberal combined . |
| 10 | Their enthusiasm started wearing thin after half an hour or so , but would nonetheless have generated an incredible upturn in business . |
| 11 | Following on from the exhibition of Italian drawings 1780–1890 seen in Washington , Minneapolis and San Francisco in 1980 and 1981 , the same team of organisers and curator The American Federation of Arts and Roberta Olsen respectively have mounted an ambitious sequel , ‘ Ottocento : Romanticism and Revolution in nineteenth-century Italian paintings ’ . |
| 12 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 13 | I 've also had to put an old cat to sleep , and some children from the new estate brought their hamster in . |
| 14 | It has also had to keep an undisclosed number of doubtful loans before offloading the unit , Kleinwort Benson Australia , to the California-based bank Security Pacific . |
| 15 | The argument for the appellants was that there was no evidence from which the police could reasonably have apprehended an imminent breach of the peace . |
| 16 | Which would probably have cheered an angry Oz reader , who signed himself ‘ J.F. ’ in a letter to the magazine that year . |
| 17 | The school magazine put it in writing : ‘ R. Jenkins has been a tower of strength in Rugby and under normal circumstances would probably have gained an International cap . |
| 18 | if given at the trial , the evidence would probably have had an important influence on the result of the case ; and |
| 19 | By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive . |
| 20 | You may also have to pay an extra charge if you take equipment back with more damage than when you took it out ( make sure any damage is recorded when you pick up the goods ) and if the equipment is so dirty that it requires cleaning . |
| 21 | In that case , as already suggested , the contract will also have to contain an express exclusion of the implied condition . |
| 22 | The latter , however , may also have had an adverse effect as many housing writers have pointed out . |
| 23 | We may accept that male cooperation was needed for fertility to fall , while at the same time arguing that the opinions of wives may also have had an important effect on husbands . |
| 24 | We also have to assume an average interest rate of 12 per cent over the 25 years . |
| 25 | The first is that my tree really has become an old mate and I really do go out into the garden and hug it . |
| 26 | She really has had an awful lot of attention . |
| 27 | On top of this BR now has to find an extra £100m a year to pay for an unnecessarily large safety programme , one result of the Clapham rail crash . |
| 28 | By getting his colleagues to admit pupils to their lectures after Vial 's death , apparently waiving the customary fee of 10 guineas , he helped the College over a difficult patch , but may unwittingly have set an unfortunate precedent which suggested that preclinical veterinary teaching could be done as well in a medical as in a veterinary context . |
| 29 | Instead , Broadway today has become an architectual jumble sale of monolithic Marriot Inns , fast-food joints , welfare hotels , and porno cinemas ( where movies like Rin Tin Tin Gets In still pack them in ) . |
| 30 | Borg had enjoyed what he may well have considered an unrepeatable run of success ; perhaps he thought it was all downhill from there . |