Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because on the stage they acquire importance , they must be seen to have a proper purpose . |
| 2 | Finally , there is another kind of empirical approach to the study of interaction , and its effects on linguistic structure , that might be claimed to have a distinct advantage . |
| 3 | Wolf 's animals look right even in these scenes where the temptation to make them anthropomorphic is great , because the picture might be taken to have a moral for human beings . |
| 4 | While this might be thought to have a major impact , the effects would have been lessened if the cremating was carried out at dispersed homes . |
| 5 | The criteria for inclusion in the study ensured that all patients had severe COAD with ventilatory failure , and so could be expected to have a substantial mortality . |
| 6 | A moratorium on the use of high seas drift-nets from mid 1992 onwards , unless they could be shown to have a negligible effect on marine living resources ( diplomatic language for marine mammals and sea birds ) . |
| 7 | On the other hand , lateral correlations may be expected to have a negative region , like curve B , since continuity requires the instantaneous transport of fluid across any plane ( by the fluctuations ) to be zero . |
| 8 | While railway workers in England and Wales would suffer the brunt of redundancies , any severe job losses would be bound to have a knock-on effect in Scotland . |
| 9 | Britain wants to encourage movement , not to stifle it , and any talk of sanctions would be bound to have a bad effect . |
| 10 | When he was told that transfer between schools would be possible , and that schools would be encouraged to have a common but diverse curriculum for all eleven-to-thirteen-year-olds , Butler said that he felt ‘ much comforted ’ . |
| 11 | In terms of that aspect of the Fleet Street Casuals case which relates sufficient interest to the facts and merits of the applicant 's case , it is probably correct to say that ratepayers challenging decisions of local authorities , competitors challenging decisions affecting their business activities , and neighbours challenging planning decisions would be held to have a sufficient interest unless other facts of the case provided very strong grounds for denying the existence of such an interest . |
| 12 | Advantage of the easy access will be taken to have a good paint round with white paint — more light — and to install some exhaust silencing . |
| 13 | However , whether employed by a large , medium or small establishment , the receptionist will be required to have a sound general knowledge of business practice , and , if called upon to do so , must be able to perform competently and efficiently the following tasks : |
| 14 | In contrast , ‘ cash cows ’ will be expected to have a good ROI and cash flow and higher sales-turnover ratios . |
| 15 | The Fellow will be expected to have a strong quantitative background in Industrial or Financial Economics or similar research discipline and be capable of handling very large computerised data sets . |
| 16 | Students will be expected to have a thorough knowledge of them for their first grading exam . |
| 17 | Clearly , they can be seen to have a particular self-concept , a sense of what Weber termed social honour ( Wallis , Bruce , and Taylor 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Perhaps the only genuine conclusion that can be made at this particular time of flux is that arts teachers are generally receptive to the introduction of new approaches to assessing children 's work , but only if these developments can be seen to have a positive value in helping children to be more articulate about their strengths and weaknesses , and are therefore essentially formative in character . |
| 19 | Rather volcanoes can be said to have a morphological capacity representing the maximum size attainable by a particular type of eruption and associated ejecta . |
| 20 | But both can be said to have a basic requirement for nitrogen , which they incorporate into their own proteins and nucleic acids . |
| 21 | Finally , I would like to imagine what may happen if it does turn out that mental health can be shown to have a genetic basis . |
| 22 | It might be argued that the test procedure is thus shown to be at fault , since in all the above cases the first element can be shown to have a clear semantic function relative to the second element : in fact , it signals a sub-variety of the general category denoted by the second element . |
| 23 | Sometimes , we can be sitting having a quiet drink when someone will come across for an autograph and I remember who I 'm with . |