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

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1 This is particularly true in this area where we have to compete with the Townswomen 's Guild which has a lower subscription and also with numerous Council-run activities , many of which are free or at a low cost for pensioners .
2 The mill now has a new owner and fortunately , he too , fully appreciates what an important acquisition he has made .
3 It is in this sense that the former has a greater valency and so constitutes a better learning investment .
4 This criterion was introduced for the benefit of an authority like Kirklees which runs the large institution of Huddersfield Polytechnic but which has a limited population and therefore a relatively small rate basis .
5 The exterior is like a larger version of Hollola Church and it also has a separate campanile and richly decorative brick gabling .
6 He seems to be enjoying it , but he has a weak chest and really he should n't be out on cold winter afternoons .
7 My boyfriend has a full-time job but barely gives me enough money for the shopping .
8 Such local compensation , however , can not occur at the small scale because the lithosphere has a finite strength and so changes in load result in regional isostatic adjustments over a greater area than that actually affected by the change in load ( Fig. 4.7(B) ) .
9 There 's more of the giant baby who has a neat vocabulary but still ca n't manage to stay upright , more discussions and observations on life in general , and yet another head-to-head where talking at cross purposes is turned into an art form .
10 If dogs survive in the wild , they often have effects on the flora and fauna ; so that has a conservation effect and perhaps other effects on species in the environment .
11 One point of contact between institutionalised writing and the social situation , for instance , is that the ‘ text ’ has a communicative function and so one can ‘ talk meaningfully of a sender/addressee , a message , a receiver/addressee , and a purpose ’ ( ibid. ) , even if the communication is not face-to-face and the audience is attenuated over time and space .
12 the income arising to the trust has a foreign source and therefore had it been received by the beneficiary he would not have borne tax on it ; and 2. the benefit — the payment out by the trustees to the individual — is not received in the United Kingdom .
13 Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness .
14 When under full tension and stretched , it has a reduced cross-section and consequently a reduced breaking strain .
15 From the viewpoint of drive costs the conventional hybrid motor has a severe disadvantage and therefore many manufacturers have introduced " bifilar-wound " hybrid motors , which can be operated with a unipolar drive .
16 The written word always has a special sanctity and more so if it is from a contemporary source , but it needs to be examined with the same ruthless and objective scrutiny as given to the archaeological evidence .
17 All percussion has a pervasive sound and even when played quietly the effect of one instrument does not go unnoticed .
18 He has a few swigs and then .
19 Do you know I 've had a blue pen , I 've had a black pen and now I 'm down to a bloody pencil .
20 In an interview with an Austrian newspaper Havel criticized this boycott as " a game " which had once had a moral basis but now consisted of " rather cold-blooded considerations — if one does not go , others will not go " .
21 I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred .
22 She 'd had a 24-hour labour but often said she did n't know what all the fuss was about these days .
23 Steve Bradbury says it 's a great place to be stuck … they 've just had a fried breakfast and now they are having free drinks
24 Every debit must have a corresponding credit and vice-versa .
25 Did you have a salty meal and therefore drink more ?
26 What I , what I suggest we do is we take this opportunity of having to review , to sort of have a complete overview and actually do , run a few er routine blood tests at this stage as well .
27 We do have a battery-powered TV but only see newspapers occasionally .
28 There are no words in any human language that can adequately describe the experience of ‘ seeing ’ something in this way — precisely because human beings do not have a holographic sense and so have never required the words to describe it nor the intellectual ability to be able to imagine it .
29 You see , unfortunately , he did n't have a strong physique and eventually started to take fits .
30 She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale .
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