Example sentences of "had a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly following on Michael Porter 's seminal work on ‘ competitive strategy ’ in the early part of this decade [ Porter ( 1980 ) ; see also Porter ( 1985 ) ] , we have had a yet further development : the idea of ‘ competitive intelligence ’ . |
| 2 | Urgently needed is the same kind of attention paid to the literature of the western country that has one of the most resilient Africanist populations in the world — a population that has always had a curiously intimate and unhingingly separate existence within the dominant one . |
| 3 | Margaret Telford ( Mrs Woolley ) regretted not having returned after the war to complete Greats , but has ‘ had a thoroughly happy life and would n't want it altered ’ . |
| 4 | Miss Kirwan , 20 , has had a remarkably successful career since first appearing in A Handful Of Stars in London at 16 . |
| 5 | I 've had a right good chat to David . |
| 6 | Er , I 'll tell you what it 's had a right old hammering since you 've been here , no ? |
| 7 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 8 | Most children 's agents feel that they have actually had a rather good year . |
| 9 | The centralisation introduced an extra tier of administration at the Area Board headquarters , and in one Board , the North Eastern , this extra tier was somewhat unnecessarily introduced into an area which prior to nationalisation had had a rather efficient , centralised company undertaking , in order to conform to the organising committee 's purely advisory organisational blueprint for Boards . |
| 10 | If whatever happened to Summerchild had n't happened , I think , once again , then … then Timmy and I might have had a rather better quality of life . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just had a rather intriguing chat with Irene Charial . ’ |
| 12 | Since Mesmer brought the subject to the attention of the scientific world , hypnotism has had a rather chequered career . |
| 13 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 14 | I 've always had a rather ambivalent attitude towards something happening to my father , and it persists . |
| 15 | Erm the the probation office itself has b had a rather big conference room , and |
| 16 | In the past , crammers have had a rather tacky reputation , but as universities have become more demanding , most tutorial colleges have changed the nature of their operations in response . |
| 17 | Free-electron lasers on the whole have had a rather bad press . |
| 18 | This shift , however , has had a geographically uneven impact , both between and within the economic planning regions . |
| 19 | Looking back from the vantage point of the twentieth-century ‘ welfare state ’ we can also see , however , that every state , even when it has had a primarily repressive character , has also performed other necessary functions in the coordination and regulation of complex societies , especially through the development of a system of law , and in some cases — as with the Roman Empire — has had a generally civilizing influence . |
| 20 | Well , Moses , we 've had a most glorious day . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , my boy , ’ he said , ‘ your father 's had a most successful day . |
| 22 | I am extremely sorry , but I have just had a most trying time . ’ |
| 23 | Considering the numbers involved , you have done a job of work which has had a most telling effect on the enemy and which , I fully believe , no other troops in the world could have done . |
| 24 | Otaka has clearly had a most inspiring influence on the BBC Welsh , so much so that I am quite convinced that anyone coming to this excellent new recording blindfolded would never guess its provenance . |
| 25 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ |
| 26 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ . |
| 27 | and er , and so , and er as I say er I 've had a most wonderful life and I 've been a widow now for ten years . |
| 28 | The two English ladies , they explained , had had a most regrettable , a most serious disagreement , during which voices had been raised and charges of murder , yes , murder , had been uttered . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've had a most interesting day , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been to the Balcombe Street siege . ’ |
| 30 | We have had a most interesting debate , in which several hon. Members have taken part . |