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

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1 The next level are in fact magistrates , who appear to have a similar area of responsibility to our Gown Court judges .
2 And I 'm sorry we appear to have a little bit of a problem with that tape , we have the wrong tape .
3 like before the break when you want to have a permanent record of what you 'd done so that you ca n't turn round and say well I do n't remember them conversation
4 Well I I want to have a big picture of England on the wall on which I can start to tick off bits as we get them .
5 Both teams have lost their first game so a win tomorrow is vital if they want to have a realistic chance of making the play-offs .
6 Supermarkets , including Tesco 's store in Banbury and the Co-Op in Kidlington , were also found to be selling ham , which experts say had a high risk of food poisoning .
7 The small shop area has to be completed and we hope to have a full range of items for sale in the near future .
8 After the hearing a company spokesman said : ‘ Kwik Save has a vast number of stores throughout the country and we do take this area very seriously .
9 When we apply these views to early childhood we begin to have a clearer picture of deaf children 's future .
10 Perhaps it is the fault of the world in which we live , but people seem to have a great fear of failing , forgetting that failing at something does not mean that one is a ‘ failure ’ at life .
11 Clowns seem to have a lower centre of gravity , or a magnetic field that converts everything to prose .
12 ‘ They seem to have a better idea of the indie ethic in America , ’ muses Jim .
13 We seem to have a tremendous lot of seagulls do n't we ?
14 So in spite of it being a mid-turn switch , in this case we seem to have a different type of switch from the one in ( 6 ) , for the other parties to the conversation respond differently to it .
15 Kubrick can posit only a mystical promise of future ( individual ) development because he fundamentally has little faith in human nature or society , unlike Clarke ( most sci-fi writers seem to have a deep-down streak of optimism , even when as downbeat as Philip K Dick or as ironic as Kurt Vonnegut ) .
16 Some people like to have a clear set of rules to live and to work by , while others condemn these same rules as ‘ bureaucratic ’ , restrictive and stifling .
17 Nevertheless I like to have a constant supply of fresh flowers in the house .
18 In practice we know have a greater quantity of food , more choice of different foods with less seasonal variation and of better quality than every before , all at a cheaper price .
19 The Conservatives believe that the government 's role is to ensure that we continue to have a good foundation of basic and strategic science on which industry can draw , to encourage a good supply of up-to-date and creative scientists , and to encourage the right climate for successful innovation .
20 Lianes tend to have a higher percentage of wind-dispersed species than do trees , though hemi-epiphytic lianes tend to be bird-dispersed .
21 Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside .
22 So we we we tend to have a different sort of , probably if you 'd , if you ask that question differently you would get a different percentage .
23 Most people are aware , for instance , that a major link between those who suffer heart attacks is that they tend to have a high level of cholesterol in the blood .
24 Solid features such as walls tend to have a smaller amount of magnetic minerals within them than the surrounding soil , and therefore give lower readings .
25 This is no doubt partly a reflection of the way in which people with bank accounts do have a wider range of credit options open to them than people without .
26 It might be crass to describe Screaming Trees as The Cult Without The Stupid Bits , but they do have a rare knack of crafting glorious , quite literally classic heavy rock without resorting to the pompous clichés .
27 If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape .
28 That 's the team of management that I , together with one or two others , built up from scratch at the beginning of the Liberal Democrats , and we now in Stockport have a highly successful erm m As I say , tier of management for training , for campaigning , for policy development in Stockport , and as you probably know we do have a good record of winning local council seats .
29 The American experience makes it reasonable to expect that , as the effects of the new advertisements and quotations regulations take hold , awareness of typical APRs will slowly climb so that in maybe seven or eight years ' time most people do have a reasonable idea of them .
30 It 's interesting to note that actually now we 've since made that decision the residual has as I 've said come down to nine four seven , so if we do have a new settlement of fourteen hundred we 're already ending up with a a higher level of proposed development for Greater York now , the nine seven would obviously be exceeded if we had a fourteen hundred new settlement within Greater York .
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