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

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1 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 .
2 You only have to take a little bit off ai n't enough to go under your nose .
3 The truth is ladies you only have to touch a bald man and you light up like Blackpool Tower .
4 But , you only have to earn a little bit and you lose your benefit .
5 To these people , we not only have to offer an attractive package but to be more visible , especially during these troubled times .
6 That 's all you have , that 's only have to have a little bit .
7 We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ?
8 Second , by embracing collective entrepreneurship , the Japanese especially have found a different way to achieve competitive advantage while maintaining high real wages .
9 We thus have to consider a typical evolution rather than attempt to cover all possibilities .
10 to achieve the immediate objective and thus have taken a significant step towards achieving the overall aim
11 After her decision to stop working with a model , she wrote : ‘ Through the long time of working on studies , I finally have attained a certain background in technique which allows me to express what I want without a model . ’
12 That 's the trouble with doing all these films and tellies — you just have to remember a little bit for a short take .
13 You just have to give a straight answer .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 You just have to have an official order
16 Mr Mayor , I do feel after councillor er er er speech I just have to make a little comment erm people in my ward .
17 We just have used a simplified version of that .
18 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 ’ .
19 Youth concerts always have to include a major work written in the current ‘ Cantata ’ fashion .
20 Most students usually have to complete a one-year foundation course first .
21 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 .
22 Mind you , the court-going officers still have to spend a fair amount of time attending trials .
23 Many are now in the caring hands of staff at the Battersea Dogs Home in London , but they still have to find a permanent home .
24 When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent .
25 You you both have to have a little ride each back to my house because I ca n't I do n't think
26 And then you probably have to file a flat side on it : a real picklock 's square-sectioned .
27 We also have to assume an average interest rate of 12 per cent over the 25 years .
28 These documents — student records and timetables — often have to carry a great deal of information including complex messages and progress summaries .
29 Jim said : ‘ We had to tackle the traditionally bad image of train catering and we really have come a tremendous way as far as quality is concerned .
30 They now have formed a Working Group for Children as part of their overall work .
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