Example sentences of "have a [adj] [noun] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wood substance has a specific gravity around 1.4 but freshly felled timber floats ( unless it is a very dense species ) because , even in the unseasoned wood , there is a good deal of air . |
| 2 | These are very strong powers , and it is clearly important to establish the meaning of ‘ development ’ , particularly since the term has a legal meaning far wider than in ordinary language . |
| 3 | In fact , at room temperature a diamond has a thermal conductivity about six times higher than a piece of copper . |
| 4 | Yet this ancient borough has a maritime history as rich and proud as any West Country port . |
| 5 | It has a steadier will less likely to be tainted by bias , weakness or impetuosity , less likely to be diverted from right reason by temptations or pressures . |
| 6 | You have n't had a fair deal so that 's the man to go to ! |
| 7 | A child who had been taught to pray to a Mother in Heaven would have a religious life radically different from that of a Christian child . |
| 8 | There was no fresh capital , the project did not have a specific budget so any money had to come from existing tight maintenance and operating budgets . |
| 9 | Did n't we have a similar streak about four/five years ago , i.e. the last year Bremner was in charge — this saw us shoot up the second division before an ignominous defeat against Shrewsbury Town ( who ? ) saw us plummet to mid table yet again . |
| 10 | • Britain 's best loved soap opera , Coronation Street , will also have a smoky flavour later this autumn after filming took place on the Cheddleton-based North Staffs Railway 's picnic area looking towards the Knotty 's attractive base . |
| 11 | It took only minutes for Lubor to drive her to her hotel , but as she thanked him for lunch and he handed her back her parcel , he replied , ‘ Lunch was a happy time for me also , ’ and did n't waste a moment to enquire , ‘ Shall we have a happy dinner together this evening ? ’ |
| 12 | He did investigate having a public enquiry there last year . |
| 13 | Taking all this into account , it is possible to explain how I interpreted this utterance to function as a request for help in freeing the cat — as having a pragmatic meaning roughly paraphrasable as |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't mind telling you , but keep it under your chapeau ’ — Amaranth shuddered slightly ‘ that Carole and her crowd are having a little meeting early this evening to work out their tactics . |
| 15 | But 5 year old Amy Harding would have found the trauma of having a surgical collar even worse if she 'd had to make the long trip to Gloucester . |
| 16 | Many of them are likely to have a great deal more sharp , down-to-earth commonsense than you have . |
| 17 | Why not fix to have a light lunch here one day if ever in Edinburgh . |
| 18 | This had a solid crust generally capable only of bearing the weight of a man , but the LRDG had successfully worked out a route for vehicles . |
| 19 | The man had a faint discoloration under one eye — he could n't help speculating whether Dotty had n't been giving him a hard time . |
| 20 | We had to explain to them what a three-dimensional , you know , lock-up page was and why , you know , gutters were a certain width and if you had column rules and gutters , you know , why they were centered and why you could n't , if you had a wide margin below three columns of text why you did n't move the gutter beyond where the text was n't so white , or why you did n't move it down and have it join a rule here because it would have been a real pain in the arse to have to do that in metal , so you just sit and do it . |
| 21 | One like this , and I had a like gash about two inches up my legs . |
| 22 | Deano had a good chance about 5 minutes from time , but headed straight at the keeper . |
| 23 | It had a recorded population only last year of four hundred million and is fully recognised as the richest crown on earth — and yet — and yet , friends — Britain allows ten million working men to live in chronic destitution and lets match-girls sweat their labour in factories . |
| 24 | ‘ I know McCallen had a quick time late last night when he took the Honda out in the 250cc practice with the number crossed out but , of course , his speed on that occasion was purely unofficial . ’ |
| 25 | One patient had a positive titre as high as 1:5000 . |
| 26 | This made Bekenstein 's suggestion that a black hole had a finite entropy fully consistent , since it implied that a black hole could be in thermal equilibrium at some finite temperature other than zero . |
| 27 | Robert Maxwell had a military career more glamorous than Blackett 's . |
| 28 | We had a local author here last term . |
| 29 | We were invited to spend it with Bill and Claire , who have a small farm about 15 miles outside Invercargill ( which is right at the bottom of the South Island ) . |
| 30 | Some have a paved area as small as 10 square metres surrounded by high walls , while others enjoy an orchard , garden , playing field and carefully constructed play spaces . |