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

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1 Whoever owns that animal has got a strange sense of humour .
2 TIE Rack has got a great selection of ties and they 're great for Father 's Day presents , either as a little-extra or for those who ca n't afford to splash out .
3 All areas in which the section has got a proven record of achievement .
4 But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then .
5 This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others .
6 He 'd got a well-developed sense of self-protection , you know , always carried a gun in the glove-pocket of the car .
7 Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that .
8 He 'd got a marvellous set of teeth . ’
9 And he 'd say , Well and he 'd got a whole string of Lenin 's books , and he 'd reach down and pick one and turn to the right page straight away , says , This is what Lenin said , and he said , I 'll stand by this , you know .
10 Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses .
11 And you 'd got a little bit of plaster you , you could show the court the next morning , he was going to prison .
12 Having got a rough draft of a solution , now write it out neatly and in a logically developed manner so that you will be able to read and understand your solution in 6 months time .
13 You might not have minded giving up your sweets , because you , you 'd have got a different kind of gratification .
14 They 'll not be as lively as they ought to be come morning , but tonight will have got a whole lot of unhappy things out of Seb 's system .
15 I 've got a good idea of where everywhere is .
16 But I 've got a good sense of design , and I like the contact with customers .
17 ‘ We 've got a good mixture of clean , crisp colours and more muted shades which should have appeal for everybody , ’ said , Porter Paints manager of marketing planning and services .
18 Well they 've got a good pint of Ruddles .
19 You 've got a good chance of seeing the rarer migrant butterflies here , as well as buzzards , kestrels , and even a hobby or peregrine falcon .
20 But I think we 've got a good chance of getting into the play-offs and we 're capable of beating anyone on our day .
21 I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects .
22 So you 've got a good range of movement , okay .
23 Erm what I 'm doing basically is er putting on as many exhibitions as I can using the centre 's name and making sure that I 've got a good amount of my work in there , although I do n't push anybody else out .
24 Because y they 've got a good lot of recipes in there , fish and
25 Well you 've got another pair of brown ones upstairs you could wear as well , you 've got a new pair of brown ones upstairs
26 We 're gon na have to get a tyre gauge I reckon they 've got a new depth of tread one point six millimetres which is bigger than the .
27 But now we 've got a new breed of black sportsmen .
28 You 've got a new chest of drawers anyway Christopher .
29 And we 've got a new source of burnable material to replace the hedge trimmings : lots of things are delivered on pallets , wooden pallets , not all of which are returnable .
30 I do n't know whether this is necessary but Caroline erm , but when we take on a new type of business which is n't covered by our current procedures erm , say electronic data collection or something , which up until then has been done on paper , that we ought to have some simple statement in a procedure about how we are going to er , ma , ensure that we 've got a new set of procedures to deal with that new type of , new system .
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