Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the nineteen fifties each base has had a side . |
| 2 | Some people seemed to have a talent for saying the wrong thing , she thought to herself . |
| 3 | I think it is appalling , quite atrocious — some people seem to have a death wish . ’ |
| 4 | Bob Hughes : ‘ Some people seem to have a death wish ’ |
| 5 | By contrast , some patients seem to have a frequency that is rarely less than 10 in 24 hours and need to take antidiarrhoeal agents and modify their diet . |
| 6 | This argument does have a loophole . |
| 7 | It 's embarrassing and they take advantage especially at parties where some girls have had a lot to drink . ’ |
| 8 | Few critics bother to have a theory of history , unless a borrowed one . |
| 9 | Several teenage mothers in this book had had a home tutor and most had enjoyed it . |
| 10 | This bottle seems to have a plastic stopper , ’ he murmured as he filled two glasses . |
| 11 | Since the introduction of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 , this country has had a system of strategic planning and site licensing for waste management . |
| 12 | CAPRICORN — VERY few Capricorns have had a whale of a time in the past few years . |
| 13 | ‘ That Karen has had a hysterectomy . ’ |
| 14 | Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game . |
| 15 | And if the diverse references of the materials used in such music do have a coherence , it mainly rests on a kind of formalist and/or surrealist playing with sound-combinations and their mental associations and images , characteristic — in its implied position of social isolation — of almost all avant-garde music in the twentieth century . |
| 16 | These kids have to have a structure , and to know that you mean what you say . ’ |
| 17 | Many of these problems seem to have a parallel in vision processing . |
| 18 | Most of these studies have had a struggle to remain solvent , and have depended on the generosity of charitable foundations such as Nuffield and Ford , as well as finance from government agencies , often via the health services . |
| 19 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 20 | These capacities do have a relationship with effectiveness . |
| 21 | All these approaches have had a degree of success , but the drug scene is a dynamic , creative one where just as one drug seems to be under control , a new threat emerges . |
| 22 | When the first person returns , the second takes over and the game continues until each person has had a turn . |
| 23 | Two disadvantages of such techniques are that each word has to have a tag field added to it ( and this may need to be quite long to hold a suitable range of values ) , and execution of each instruction becomes more complicated ( and therefore possibly slower ) . |
| 24 | It may well be that several groups have had a burglary , in which case the teacher could use this as the focus : " How are we going to deal with it ? |
| 25 | At the same time , UK paperbackers are contractually bound not to issue their paperbacks into the UK before the hardback editions of the same titles have had a chance to prove themselves in the bookshops . |
| 26 | This can not be precisely quantified , but several writers have had a stab at a formula . |
| 27 | Anyone seeking temporary work beyond his own parish had to have a certificate ( signed by the minister and an overseer ) which acknowledged legal responsibility . |
| 28 | ‘ Good , live firing 's just stopped and if the last few nights are anything to go by , we 'll be hearing from the battlegroup soon , once their own fitters have had a chance to check out the day 's casualties. , |
| 29 | This was that although the District would be explicitly recognised as the Responsible Body for Chapter III courses throughout the rural areas scheme , if any class wished to have a Chapter III category course organised by the Cambridge Board the WEA would agree to the Board assuming providing powers for the purpose of meeting the wishes of the students in the class . |
| 30 | Before experiencing a Methodist conversion , Bamford senior had been a noted drinker and wrestler , but even at that time had had a taste for books . |