Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's from the Bible , actually , and it would have formed a small part of what I wanted to say to you this morning ; ‘ Do n't make friends with people who have hot , violent tempers . |
| 2 | In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s . |
| 3 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 4 | Identifying the specific weaving group is , of course , far more difficult , and you would have to gather a considerable amount of information on the individual variations in weave , colour and composition before hazarding a guess . |
| 5 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |
| 6 | Your report ( 4 March ) regarding the proposed housing and golf course development at Archerfield , East Lothian , may have given a misleading impression of the current situation . |
| 7 | Erm , that that that that is a point where the discovery in itself , must have given a great deal of pleasure to a a er a number of people who 've been involved in the , in the research . |
| 8 | The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope . |
| 9 | This would have given an identical set of equations , but with V being replaced by - V , and P 3 by P 2 . |
| 10 | If the hon. Gentleman had participated in our debates in Committee , he would have heard a wide range of differing views and opinions expressed by the various parties in Northern Ireland — and , to some extent , by people within the same party . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it is a remarkable tribute to the perseverance and courage of the participants that the ceremonial proceedings were concluded , although no one could have heard a single word of what was spoken into the gale and blown back . |
| 12 | Then he had steered her to a chair , rather than the sofa , which would probably have provoked a new attack of ‘ imagination ’ . |
| 13 | The three or four terms offered to post-graduate students condense the technical work of a three-year course ; on the whole there is greater emphasis on training the voice , movement , acting technique , fencing and dance , etc. since students will presumably have developed a fair amount of performing skill through their university drama departments or societies . |
| 14 | Things would have kindled if they could have demonstrated , or if Prince Charles could have uttered a single sentence of political substance . |
| 15 | Another example of that for instance , and this is something we 'll , we 'll have to wait a full explanation of this we 'll have to wait a little bit later itself . |
| 16 | The Government 's aim is to decide all cases within a matter of months so that all those affected do not have to wait an inordinate length of time to ascertain their legal status in the U K. It 's obvious to everyone not too blind to see that such changes are vital to the mounting pressures on the existing system |
| 17 | You should by now have received a final version of the script for Project Video ( strong pressure form the sales people to use this title ! ) , a shooting schedule and call sheets . |
| 18 | The Smiths could have received a considerable amount of money by this method and , indeed , were offered a number of more lucrative alternatives . |
| 19 | We would have to see a whole change of pattern and thinking for all clubs and all players in April . |
| 20 | Even if an algorithm embodied knowledge that perhaps the training set should be transformed to polar coordinates , still the algorithm would have to search a 2-dimensional continuum of possible centres . |
| 21 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 22 | The external skeleton inherited from their water-living forebears , needed few modifications for life on land , but the millipedes did have to acquire a different method of breathing . |
| 23 | THE DISTRIBUTION of personal property gives the most comprehensive overview of the wealth of the English people in the sixteenth century , because almost everybody must have owned a certain amount of goods and chattels , and , as required , a value was assigned to ‘ every man 's substance ’ , if only a few shillings — commonly reduced to a curt ‘ nil ’ — representing the clothes on their backs and other personal effects . |
| 24 | If the sources were not already known to the IRA , the author of the alleged MI5 documents may have committed a grave breach of security by alluding to them . |
| 25 | Borg had enjoyed what he may well have considered an unrepeatable run of success ; perhaps he thought it was all downhill from there . |
| 26 | In that case , as already suggested , the contract will also have to contain an express exclusion of the implied condition . |
| 27 | If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this . |
| 28 | Firstly , the other causes of death may have included a high proportion of respiratory or diarrhoeal deaths that had been misclassified — for example , the cause of death in the trial by West et al was ascertained from a verbal necropsy report . |
| 29 | In some circumstances this remained true even in straightforward administrative interactions where strings of questions about what was going to happen next sometimes led to complicated and unproductive guessing games , and where a simple clear statement would have saved a great deal of time . |
| 30 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |