Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , subject to obtaining any necessary consent , is to treat the patient in accordance with his own best clinical judgment , notwithstanding that other practitioners who are not called upon to treat the patient may have formed a quite different judgment or that the court , acting on expert evidence , may disagree with him . |
| 2 | Quigly , Willis and Frome — it would have formed a sufficiently high-sounding trio of names to grace a solicitors ' firm . |
| 3 | Well if you asked me that ten or fifteen years ago I think I could have given a rather easy answer erm namely that development studies was concerned with the problems of countries in Africa , Asia and Latin America , and how they could erm accelerate their economic , social and political development to provide better living standards for all their population . |
| 4 | For example , this selection of flowers could have been framed in a pale green mount , or the entire design could have been created on a very pale blue-grey background with no mount at all , both of which would have given a very different emphasis to the pink roses . |
| 5 | But , while the main survey showed that men in general tended to be better informed about credit than women , that difference was too small to suggest that Asian women would have given a very different impression if they had been included in the groups . |
| 6 | Election experts could legitimately point to the fact that a system of proportional voting could have given a very different result . |
| 7 | He got off the mark with an uppish straight drive for four , which might have given a less myopic bowler than Malcolm a return catch , and in Malcolm 's next over , he attempted a square slash which , if he had got an edge , might have prevented him ever setting foot in India again . |
| 8 | And then immediately wondered if she should have given a more positive reply . |
| 9 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 10 | Those actively interested in diamonds will have to wait a very long time before they will be able to put their hands on these cosmic ornaments . |
| 11 | You mean I 'll have to wait a very long time . |
| 12 | If you have any fixed-wing experience , you will by now have realised a very important difference between helicopters and aeroplanes . |
| 13 | By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire . |
| 14 | Partition had cut off the Pomeranian Poles from the areas of Poland that might have sustained a more confident sense of Polish national identity . |
| 15 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
| 16 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |
| 17 | They did not have to suffer a very low-calorie diet or one that involved eating expensive and unusual foods . |
| 18 | The sight alone would have won a more sentimental soul , but the Balmoral workers shared their countrymen 's pride in hard headedness . |
| 19 | I often wonder what the casual passer-by would have made of us , as we must have looked a really piratical bunch with piles of American cigarettes and Polish vodka spread around our decks . |
| 20 | ‘ Approval of these plans will enable us to retain and build on our existing workforce , which is what we want to do , otherwise we would have to find a completely new site , probably out of Wales , too far away for most of our existing employees . ’ |
| 21 | He would have enjoyed a technically legal claim to the throne of his regal forebears — and perhaps , as had been suggested , the technically legal claim . |
| 22 | If he 'd been thrown in cold against Juventus 's £8 million man , McLaren might well have suffered a very different fate from the rave reviews that greeted his outstanding display . |
| 23 | But Somalia 's refugees may have suffered a less appalling fate than the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian refugees in Somalia , who have existed in desolate camps for nearly 10 years . |
| 24 | And our noble lords at the palace would certainly have done a more professional job . ’ |
| 25 | If there was a " consumer revolution " in eighteenth-century England , it must have owed a very great deal to an improvement in road transport which , according to one writer , allowed " our very carriages to travel with almost winged expedition " . |
| 26 | By Gerald Larner FOLLOWERS of the BBC Philharmonic — that small but discriminating section of the concert audience in the North-west — will have noticed a peculiarly high proportion of works featuring solo trumpet in the orchestra 's current programmes . |
| 27 | I just wonder whether erm I think that stool there might have been better to have her sitting on that one , not quite so high up and she could have adopted a more comfortable pose and she would n't have needed another prop for her foot . |
| 28 | would have presented a very good budget for |
| 29 | On the question of aggression by the North , there can be no doubt whatever that their ultimate object is to overrun the South ; and I think in the long term there is no doubt that they will do so , in which case , as you so aptly remark , the Americans will have made a rather handsome contribution of equipment to the military strength of Asiatic Communism . |
| 30 | I think it would have been perhaps better if you , somehow er , maybe er I du n no , you could erm , nothing to do with you so you ri you 're not in a position to be able to move them erm but if it was possible to put them in a , a different situation I think would have made a more interesting picture . |