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

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1 Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’
2 The restored Stuarts did not have to deal with any difficulty of this sort but they did have a general problem of making sure that the King 's authority was accepted .
3 Its bed and furniture were entirely homely , however , and perhaps not as dainty as the elegant young French lady might like , but it did have a nice view of the hustle and bustle of Newington Butts , and Mrs Beavis always reckoned that if you could see life going on from your window , you could n't grumble too much about not having dainty furniture .
4 Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out .
5 ‘ And I loved you from the moment I walked into the factory , even if you did have a false impression of me .
6 This is no doubt partly a reflection of the way in which people with bank accounts do have a wider range of credit options open to them than people without .
7 It might be crass to describe Screaming Trees as The Cult Without The Stupid Bits , but they do have a rare knack of crafting glorious , quite literally classic heavy rock without resorting to the pompous clichés .
8 If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape .
9 That 's the team of management that I , together with one or two others , built up from scratch at the beginning of the Liberal Democrats , and we now in Stockport have a highly successful erm m As I say , tier of management for training , for campaigning , for policy development in Stockport , and as you probably know we do have a good record of winning local council seats .
10 The American experience makes it reasonable to expect that , as the effects of the new advertisements and quotations regulations take hold , awareness of typical APRs will slowly climb so that in maybe seven or eight years ' time most people do have a reasonable idea of them .
11 It 's interesting to note that actually now we 've since made that decision the residual has as I 've said come down to nine four seven , so if we do have a new settlement of fourteen hundred we 're already ending up with a a higher level of proposed development for Greater York now , the nine seven would obviously be exceeded if we had a fourteen hundred new settlement within Greater York .
12 Erm and you do have a definite sort of track to look at .
13 And for another , it 's about the only one that England do have a vague chance of winning .
14 ‘ But I do have a real feeling of joy ! ’
15 ‘ I do have a certain amount of work to do , ’ Alice said , ‘ but I can fit in with your plans , Harry .
16 I look forward to the day when we do have a regional tier of government , and erm , a very prominent local politician , not of my party , told me in confidence , that he believes that erm , there will be a regional tier of government sooner or later , if only to react to the pressures from Europe .
17 It must nevertheless be stressed that the figure above is an average ; individual localities often have distinctive patterns , and many Labour dominated authorities do have a high proportion of working-class councillors .
18 " You have to try to go with one thing-so although I do have a large variety of plants , there 's always a certain harmony . "
19 She said : ‘ We do have a large level of donation to the unit because people want to give the money to us .
20 And of course , some people do have a large block of time do n't they , because you know , they , they have very severe illnesses , and it builds up .
21 Obviously it is strangers to the area who are misled by this sign but we do have a large number of visitors to Scorton who enjoy walking the paths .
22 And there is no doubt that some large companies do have a deliberate policy of delaying payments well beyond the agreed credit terms .
23 Now the consequence of the fact that the dollar end of June er relatively strong at around one sixty of course did impinge on er our er borrowings since we do have a considerable percentage of our gross in dollar terms and if we turn to the next slide er we can see er the summary of the balance sheet at thirtieth of June .
24 Yes , we do have a supernatural gift of joy in Christ that is quite baffling for those outside Christianity .
25 Mr Maclean replied : ‘ The fact that we do have a full investigation of what has been a small emission does show how rigorous the inspectorate systems are in this country . ’
26 and he does have a better understanding of that person 's role , even though
27 Can the theist respond that he or she does have a coherent understanding of God ?
28 Jenkins has been in the job for about ten days , so she can be forgiven for forgetting a lot of names , but she does have a long history of dealing with elderly people .
29 Although a module does not have one and only one lecturer , each module does have a pre-defined set of lecturers .
30 While ET is a rubbishy , cheap labour scheme , youth training for 16–18 year-olds does have a minimum number of guaranteed training weeks .
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