Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [pers pn] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The internationally respected journal Index on Censorship devoted the whole of its September 1988 issue to the question of liberty in Britain , because , as its opening article entitled ‘ Why Britain ? ’ put it , ‘ if freedom is diminished in the United Kingdom , where historically it has deep roots , it is potentially diminished everywhere ’ . |
| 2 | This was the Preface to a selection of the poems , which Leavis was to handle roughly , as he felt that Eliot had no business to be praising Tennyson , any more than later he had any business to be endorsing Kipling . |
| 3 | Sergeant Dixon ( stripes newly stitched ) was also enjoying himself , although initially he had serious doubts about whether he — or anyone else , for that matter — could successfully handle his assignment in the ridiculously short period of the three or four hours which Morse had asserted as ‘ ample ’ . |
| 4 | Cos basically they have these sort of kiddies all these activities and you just help you help out . |
| 5 | If only they had some grenades of the gas or choke or knockout variety ! |
| 6 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 7 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 8 | ‘ If only I had that opportunity such a rewarding experience working among people of that type . ’ |
| 9 | He said , oh if only I had that power ! |
| 10 | ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening . |
| 11 | If only he had some tools … |
| 12 | If only he had some security , if only his art supplies were replenished . |
| 13 | Now , she decided , if ever she had that kind of money , she would first ensure that her family would never again , for as long as they lived , be in need . |
| 14 | In most areas , only bulls with small ivory survive , a fact which bodes ill , genetically speaking , for the future of the species — if indeed it has any future in the wild at all . |
| 15 | If then we have uneasy feelings about modern art , it looks as if Joyce must confirm them a thousandfold . |
| 16 | Because here we have six companies . |
| 17 | , because unusually he had sufficient time to compose and measure his shot . |
| 18 | Finally , if a comparison is possible at all , this can only be because ultimately we have non-comparative knowledge of the two things compared . |
| 19 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 20 | There were then two lean seasons before suddenly he had another taste of victory in the recent Sunningdale Foursomes . |
| 21 | Though determined as ever he had more wisdom and caution than he had years ago . |
| 22 | Operators in other countries may maintain that they have ‘ commercial ’ digital services , but as yet they have few customers and they are finding it hard to rival the falling prices of analogue cellular networks . |