Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I believe someone somewhere has got a good idea .
2 ‘ Bringing all this together has required a great deal of planning , co-operation between numerous organisations and many long hours of work , ’ he added .
3 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 .
4 Thus , if pursuant to the will of X the property is vested in Y as legatee and Y subsequently sells the property for £550,000 , Y will only have made a taxable gain ( subject to the indexation allowance ) of £50,000 .
5 ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy .
6 Unfortunately they are not usually repeatable , so having made a superb jumper for your mother , you will probably be unable to make one for yourself .
7 There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough .
8 However , I was lucky enough to have joined a tolerant company that believed in giving people a chance .
9 They are simply people who are lucky enough to have landed a free trip to a holiday destination , a trip paid for by an airline , a tour company , a hotel chain or any combination of the three .
10 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 .
11 In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question .
12 Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) .
13 The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm .
14 Their effects can not be isolated from the HLCA system ; in essence it has been the availability of substantial levels of grant plus the guarantee of HLCAs on the increased numbers of animals which can be kept on the agriculturally improved grassland , which together have constituted a substantial incentive for such capital improvements .
15 So and so 's , so and so 's lame , and so and so 's got a big leg so and so caught hiself this morning , had an overreach .
16 Second , by embracing collective entrepreneurship , the Japanese especially have found a different way to achieve competitive advantage while maintaining high real wages .
17 The demand for bank lending will fall , not because of a rise in the ‘ own ’ rate of interest on bank loans but because the fall in interest rates elsewhere has caused a relative rise in bank interest rates .
18 Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past .
19 If this had happened the rogue could not have conferred title upon the innocent purchaser ( unless under some other exception to the nemo dat principle ) for the rogue would no longer have had a voidable title .
20 She believed Spittals would somehow have treated a male officer differently — spoken less patronisingly , with more respect .
21 Could she somehow have taken a wrong turning on the straight , unbranching surface ?
22 ‘ Anyone who can be bothered to see us will go away having watched a proper band .
23 ‘ Anyone who can be bothered to see us will go away having watched a proper band .
24 We may already have built a rewarding business relationship together and feel that by offering you the shell Account Card this will help to consolidate it .
25 Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech .
26 At this juncture you may just have noticed a slight differential in pace between the ‘ amateurs ’ in this democracy game , and the alleged professionals .
27 … and since this is the nature page , readers may just have noticed a Conservative Party pre-election poster featuring a giant , savings-sucking mosquito .
28 At one time I could easily have become a fundamentalist advocate of natural childbirth ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) .
29 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 .
30 Twoflower hung on as best he could as Ninereeds swooped through a succession of caverns and soared around a spiral staircase that could easily have accommodated a retreating army .
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