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

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1 First is that the parent should have a reasonably good idea of what 's going on .
2 ‘ What I mean is you should have a reasonably clean bill of health by then , ’ Doctor Staples said .
3 He proclaimed a classic revival in the arts in which the work of art was to be judged as whole and not on the merits of its parts or in relation to its creator : ‘ … the work of art should be conceived as a pipe or a hat is conceived by the craftsman who produces it ; all parts should have a strictly determined place according to their function and importance .
4 But if I had to choose a hunter for work in a particular type of country I should have a pretty good idea which would be the best animal to pick , though I might not be able to tell you how I went about it . ’
5 After eating dairy produce for a week , you should have a pretty good idea about whether it suited you or not .
6 The identification card should have a clearly identifiable photo and logo .
7 Even PhD students can be approached before they have finished their theses , though the publication of unrevised theses seems to me undesirable , common though it has become : a thesis is written , as a rule , for two examiners , whereas a book , however specialized , should have a rather wider readership in mind .
8 Hopefully then er on that date , as I say , we should have a fully fledged section here in .
9 It is … entirely immaterial that the end result of the transaction may be a legal nullity , for it is not possible to read into [ the Hong Kong version of s.3(1) ] any requirement that the assumption of rights there envisaged should have a legally efficacious result . "
10 We all believe in political fairness : we accept that each person or group in the community should have a roughly equal share of control over the decisions made by Parliament or Congress or the state legislature .
11 Then take out the tacking stitches and remove the card and you should have a really spectacular garment , the envy of all your friends .
12 It should have a readily removable cover which fits closely without being airtight , and should be protected against frost by insulating material .
13 By now you should have a fairly good idea of the possible use of a book .
14 And I think you should have a fairly good friendship before having any kind of sexual relationship .
15 An extended booklet should have a very good index or other access system to the information .
16 If you now plot L N T C right , if you plot L N T C you should have a very similar graph to the one that you had before .
17 Internationally , I think Britain should have a very important role in shaping the new Europe .
18 If we find cognisance flourishing where there is a set of actions as restricted as those of Christy Nolan 's , then how can reality be something that we posit as the limits of action : in this case a poor actor should have a correspondingly poor grasp of the real .
19 The view that the universities should have a more central role in offering the kind of imaginative vision necessary to save " mankind " from contemporary destructive forces was given an added impetus in the course of the Second World War .
20 You and your readers should have a more factual account of the Ariane launcher success rate than you recently presented ( Forum , 10 February , p 392 ) .
21 The publisher had made a decision , no doubt on sound commercial information , about the viability of the book as a course text and decided it should have a more restricted clientele who are in a position to buy a large-format , expensive paperback .
22 Except maybe if Hodge is about to go ( in a swap deal for a defender ) , maybe Wilko feels he should have a more versatile midfielder .
23 The Church of England should have a more considered position to contrast with these more torrid campaigns .
24 If the garden was more exciting than my dwelling , there was a good reason why Alec Reid 's house should have a more lived-in feeling .
25 A contract engineer called to my machine at work said that I should have a least eight inches of space all around it to prevent it from overheating or , if that did not solve the problem , it would need a new hard disk .
26 When the issue is examined in this way , one can not but agree with Brown 's conclusion that ‘ at best ( or worst ) taxation should have a relatively minor impact on the supply of labour , or work effort . ’
27 But , if it is to do with that , someone or other must have a pretty good intelligence system to get on to me so quickly . ’
28 Anyone who said they liked observations must have a pretty high threshold of boredom .
29 Both Bachofen and Morgan believed that , since you belonged to the group by virtue of being your mother 's son , women in such a system must have a particularly high status .
30 One must have a fairly accurate idea of the patient 's weight .
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