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

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1 You 're having a right lazy day ?
2 So we 're having a very successful year I 'm pleased to say .
3 ‘ Simply to tell you that I 've been having a most interesting conversation . ’
4 With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today .
5 I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front .
6 But for industry , the difficulties and costs of physical experimentation are the two factors which are having a particularly significant impact on product development .
7 ‘ Yes , we are having a very nice time , thank you . ’
8 Another aim , often hinted at , but rarely stated explicitly , was to counter the threat of early sexual and marital relationships — to help the young people ‘ when they are having a very hard time , physically and often morally ’ .
9 ‘ Bangkok , Islamabad , Kabul , Bogotá , Miami , Mexico City , Tijuana , San Diego , Bahamas , Ocho Rios , Ankara , Sofia — Andropulos playing both sides of the fence with those last two , the ethnic Turks are having a very bad time in Bulgaria just now , but Andropulos would n't let that interfere with his business interests — and Amsterdam .
10 This has had its effects on tourism and many Welsh attractions are having a very lean time .
11 Do you ever become breathless because you are having a really good work out ?
12 I realize I 'm sort of giving a very , very negative impression , and I do n't want to give the suggestion either that being unemployed has to be always bad , that all unemployed people are having a totally horrible time all of the time and are feeling very depressed all of the time — that 's not the case — but I 'm afraid that is more like the average erm situation , the typical situation , than otherwise .
13 I rather pity the young who live in London because they must be having a particularly difficult time .
14 I liked him , and he was different from other boys , not at all pushy , except pushy to please I suppose , but even that was sweet in a way — it made me want to say , it 's all right , do n't fret so much , I 'm having a perfectly nice time , slow down .
15 Bassist Jennifer — 12 hours ' sleep in three days , we reckon — adding : ‘ I 'm having a really bad night tonight and I do n't know what it is , but the next person who smacks the mic or stands on our gear …
16 ‘ I 'm having a damn good time , and sometimes I worry that I 'm going to have to pay for it all when I 'm 40 .
17 ‘ I 'm having a damn good time
18 However , the more I thought about it , the more I imagined how nice it would be to have a really fabulous holiday in Andalucía .
19 If we are to have a fairly well-paid reserve of unemployed people , why not have a minimum wage ?
20 school whilst , through the gates , his schoolmates were having a thoroughly good time .
21 Me an , me and Natalie were having a real bad go at him !
22 I feel exactly as if I were having a very prolonged dream but every time I come out of it I 'm so tired I fall back into it again .
23 They were having a very settled patch of weather .
24 in the shit , his fucking gone clang , this blokes got his fucking nuts and the next thing he sees is a big fucking plaster balls alone and he 's , he 's got up his wife , he 's having a right old night with here and he 's leaving , and he says I do n't need you , I did n't need
25 It is often necessary to drive with close attention to the car in front , especially if the driver appears to have had a little too much wine or is having a highly excited conversation with his fellow passengers and waving his arms about .
26 Dumping human sewage at sea is having a far greater effect on the marine environment than previously thought , according to US researchers who have conducted a six-year study of dumping off the coast of New Jersey .
27 The proposal is to have a very broadly-based qualification at level II , while the general SVQ at level III will encourage more specialisation by including modules in agriculture , horticulture , forestry , and environmental conservation .
28 The list could go on , and it may indeed be appropriate to add to or subtract from it , but it is to be hoped that the general point is clear enough — that our first need is to have a very clear level of self-awareness about existing management structures and processes as a precondition for undertaking a review of these elements .
29 Note , however , that most species in tropical forests live over a far smaller area — that is have a far smaller range , then the average species in temperate regions .
30 There was no point in staying for the next three days ; her physical progress was excellent , and the proximity of these midwives and mothers and babies was having a most unfortunate effect on her .
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