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

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1 The lateral arm plates appear to have a more open calcite skeleton giving the plate a spongy appearance .
2 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth appear to have a very intense relationship
3 Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference .
4 In addition we clearly want to have a relatively small scale of capital fund available for a wide variety of the needs and I have identified leisure uses , traffic calming , environmental improvements , that 's the ones which I .
5 However , we contrive to have a very pleasant time .
6 They seem to have a reasonably clear meaning , and have the merit of linking diverse bits of information together in a coherent pattern , and it provides an explanation for the content of Judaism and Christianity especially , and may have some application for understanding and explaining the ritual developments in Hinduism and Buddhism , as will be illustrated in Chapter 5 .
7 It was held in with the present public excluded but now we seem to have a completely different situation .
8 Although a number of different agencies were contacted by schools for support and guidance in the area of health education , the Health Education Board for Scotland ( HEBS ) and the various area health boards seem to have a particularly relevant role to play .
9 ‘ You seem to have a rather inflated idea of your own attractions , Mr Sterne , ’ she muttered , scarlet-faced , kicking her suitcase towards the door , and reaching cautiously behind her for the latch .
10 Those who limit animal protection to the prohibition against cruelty , by contrast , seem to have a less intelligible basis for preserving natural habitat .
11 But by the age of 18 months children seem to have a relatively clear understanding of the actions over which they have direct control and the events in the material world which they can influence only indirectly via their actions or the actions of other people .
12 And the ‘ people professions ’ ( such as management , social work and teaching ) also seem to have a somewhat ambiguous status in the academic culture , which may lead them sometimes to de-emphasize the human aspects of their work , and emphasize the theoretical , procedural or institutional .
13 Sometimes they go to the opposite extreme and seem to have a very lax superego because they relied on their parents to punish them , and subsequently have no internalization .
14 I , I did say to the County Planning Officer that I thought that whoever had wr written this er these pages have captured the very well er very si the spirit of that an and the er we seem to have a very successful meeting on that
15 We never seem to have a very big sale , is nt the record still for Ian Snodin to Everton ? ?
16 Er , the public consultation that was held actually did n't produce anybody saying they were opposed to the line of the road or even that the road should go there , so we seem to have a fairly unanimous decision that way , that the road should be er implemented .
17 Finally , in contrast to the previous characteristics , there are modifications which seem to have a more didactic function : corrections , display questions and a tendency on the part of the adult to initiate a high proportion of topics , and to pursue them at the expense of the topics that the child might wish to introduce .
18 I like to have a fairly tough action , and for slide I 'll string from a 16 gauge top to a 58 bottom .
19 By the same token , certain curriculum areas ( notably topic work and art ) might be seen as of tow priority and requiring little more than occasional and cursory monitoring by the teacher , with the result that unless the tasks set have an exceptionally high combination of challenge , motivating power and self-monitoring potential , children may spend excessive amounts of time either off-task or only partially engaged , or undertaking low-level learning .
20 The picture then has changed and we now need to plan for increasing numbers of those with chronic illnesses needing specialist community care — not just volunteers , although volunteers continue to have a vitally important role to play .
21 They are also exempt from the demands of examination passing , assessment , and certification , that I believe have a more distorting effect in the teaching of literature than in other academic areas .
22 Try not to do it as you go , I mean , try to have a very definite idea in your mind what you want to do cos otherwise , you know , you start off , you 've painted half of it grey and think oh do n't like it like this bit !
23 However , students gaining good degrees in the arts tend to have a very flat profile of marks clustering around the 70–75 per cent range , whereas science students show more peaks and troughs with marks often ranging from 65 to 85 per cent .
24 I tend to have a fairly light touch , often only skimming across the surface of the paper , or over the top of previously applied colours .
25 CANADIAN researchers have found that women who smoke tend to have a more masculine body with fat around the stomach , rather than hips , caused by changes in hormone balance .
26 The ‘ skill mix ’ of the workforce may have a bearing on the conduct of the strike , since skilled workers tend to have a more harmonious relationship with the employer , and their relatively favoured position in the labour market usually enables them to achieve their demands without having to resort to violence .
27 Fads breed products with a short life-cycle , such as pop records and other leisure items ; fashions tend to develop or reappear over the course of years , and the products which follow them tend to have a relatively long life-cycle .
28 Not in a hundred per cent of the cases , er and we do have undesirables at the John Radcliffe , er but there has n't been an incident such as this er I think that goes some way to prove that we do have a reasonably tight security service , and we , we work to any way that we can to keep it as secure as possible .
29 But we do have a fairly neutral stance at the Teacher 's Centre …
30 If you do have a fairly sophisticated information service it is easy to think that you have all the answers to hand , but this may not be the case .
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