Example sentences of "have [adv] [adj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rarely has so important a constitutional bill staggered towards enactment so inelegantly . |
| 2 | ‘ Submitting ’ to the experience is a necessary step which a participant may be deterred from taking for a number of reasons , particularly if he has too great a vested interest in the subject-matter or in his own reputation . |
| 3 | We 've had ever such a nice walk . ’ |
| 4 | Much " oohing " and " aahing " from children and adults alike , as the chick looked just like a big cuddly toy and it did n't have nearly such a sharp beak , as Jane was about to find out . |
| 5 | Now , I feel I ought to warn you : you wo n't have quite such a good chance at the end as you would have at the front . ’ |
| 6 | ( 2.1 ) unc This law does not have quite such a general form as that for IF ( 1.1 ) . |
| 7 | Peter Brown in his most recent and profoundly important book Body and Society demonstrates movingly how sexuality had so different a social meaning from what it now carries that the sexual abstinences , the noisy and sometimes virulent demands for chastity and virginity , within the early Church , far from being a symptom of self-hatred and dualism , were a radical political claim to the coming of the Kingdom : a claim which women , sometimes even more than men , could make . |
| 8 | This system no longer had quite such a regional character as it had had in the 1890s because local banks were already becoming part of the national system of clearing banks which was to take shape during the First World War . |
| 9 | The subjects of Picasso 's paintings have just such a measured look . |
| 10 | ‘ I have as full a social life as I want , and this town is n't short of night spots . |