Example sentences of "[coord] have [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was struck by the fact that the majority of people visiting our stalls at summer shows had either not heard of us , or had only the vaguest idea about what we do . |
| 2 | This was first published in 1968 , is still in print — and has over a hundred illustrations . |
| 3 | She earns between $800 and $1,000 a month , lives in one furnished room , and has just a few possessions of her own . |
| 4 | He stands over 13.2hh now and has just the right mixture of quality and substance . |
| 5 | The method adopted by Ministers for discussing policy questions is however essentially a domestic matter ; and a decision by a Cabinet Committee , unless referred to the Cabinet , engages the collective responsibility of all Ministers and has exactly the same authority as a decision by the Cabinet itself . |
| 6 | ‘ What you can be sure of , ’ said Thorfinn , eluding the question , ‘ is that the Pope and the Emperor Henry both know , and that one is dying while the other enjoys indifferent health and has only a three-year-old son to succeed him . |
| 7 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 8 | The amazing naked cat — the Canadian Sphynx — lacks both guard and awn hairs and has only a soft fuzz of down hairs on its extremities . |
| 9 | RCT , based in Arizona , is a non-profit making trust fund , and has much the same relationship with US academic institutions as BTG has with UK ones . |
| 10 | 2 Two or more words normally associating with each other and having much the same meaning as the nominal phrase , eg the very poor , a summit meeting . |
| 11 | Whichever bone it was , it was a crotch in shape ; that is , a forked bone like a wish-bone , and having precisely the same shape as the frog — the horny elastic pad — in a horse 's hoof . |
| 12 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 13 | Victoria seemed to bypass teenage awkwardness , and had already an instinctive ease of manner which reassured the boys . |
| 14 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |
| 15 | ‘ My husband lived practically next door to a children 's home when he was young and had quite a few friends in there , ’ said Jackie . |
| 16 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
| 17 | He never found work , made no male friends and had only a passing acquaintance with people in a local pub , including the 20-year-old barmaid . |
| 18 | We had never seen a soffit ventilator before , and had only a vague idea about dry-verge ridging , but the excellent catalogues and leaflets provided most of the instructions we needed . |
| 19 | The Czech orchestra were by this time a pretty good ensemble , and have just the right timbre and tonal blend for Dvořák . |
| 20 | no no no , you could be very very clever very very clever and have absolutely no common sense , you might be , still be a very clever person , be brilliant at maths but have absolutely no common sense . |
| 21 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 22 | This statement may make you angry and have quite the opposite effect from the one they actually want . |
| 23 | BARE ROOTED : This means the trees have been pulled up by their roots and have only a small chance of survival if planted out . |
| 24 | Light chemical washes simply task the edge off the harsher colours , reproducing a degree of the tonal mellowness that comes with age , and have only a minimal effect on the integrity of the pile . |
| 25 | I am now in Capt. Friend 's office and have only a short time to write before the post leaves . |
| 26 | The underlying position remains one in which most of the rural population i.e. three quarters of the total , is able to feed itself adequately , but has neither the surplus labour nor the technology to make big strides in productivity . |
| 27 | She was working but had only a small salary and ‘ soon found that it would be impossible to care for John 's upbringing satisfactorily . |
| 28 | Yet hospitals are the homes of thousands of people in this country who do not require constant medical supervision but have simply no other place they can go . |
| 29 | no no no , you could be very very clever very very clever and have absolutely no common sense , you might be , still be a very clever person , be brilliant at maths but have absolutely no common sense . |
| 30 | Housing committee chairwoman Margaret Clarke said : ‘ We are making progress on arrears , but have quite a long way to go . |