Example sentences of "to have [verb] a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You seem to have adopted a very cynical viewpoint , Matthew . ’
2 I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ?
3 Subsequent research seems , in fact , to have shown a very weak relationship between recall ( however measured , which is a technically very complex question in itself ) and other measures of advertising effectiveness .
4 This fact is of great importance , for it carries within it irrefutable evidence that whatever definition of ‘ god ’ is finally accepted , mankind must be , if not the sole architect of it , then at least to have had a very considerable influence on it .
5 Fourteen years later , Atkinson might claim , at best , to have had a very modest effect .
6 When I tell him that Fairfax seems to have played a very big part in Claudia 's life , he does n't see any problem .
7 In the absence of an animal , or even in addition to it , it is quite possible that some form of comfort was found at a particular place or sanctuary , and even within the minute span of evolutionary time measured by a single generation , it is possible for such a retreat to have become a very special place for a whole family , or even a tribe .
8 Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift .
9 Joseph Needham 's only indexed reference to dreaming in ancient China is tantalizingly brief : Oneiromancy , or prognostication by dreams , was also practised in China , as in most ancient civilisations , though it can hardly be said to have taken a very important place there .
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