Example sentences of "[adj] to have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want more people to use them , from particular divisions , i.e. if you 've got common numbers , you ca n't really say numbers to the handset adequately , the system has been proved to be , so it 's a lot easier to have common numbers and publish them in the telephone directory , so look out for that when next the lists go round to update it , update the telephone directory . |
| 2 | He is embarrassed to have embarrassed Freddie . |
| 3 | Each of them is free to have casual encounters outside the strong arms of their love . |
| 4 | The party cell was afraid to have open meetings mainly because it feared criticism from what it called the ‘ kulaks ' . |
| 5 | The family must be prepared to have black friends to demonstrate to the child that blacks and whites do have common interests and can interact harmoniously . |
| 6 | Is it defensible to have different principles for sentencing and for the labelling of offences ? |
| 7 | The feminist parallel is again evident : it was all too easy to have massive walls built against women in practically every walk of life . |
| 8 | The Elves were content to have powerful allies in the Old World . |
| 9 | The DSP led by Ecevit campaigned in May 1991 to have foreign troops removed from Turkish territory . |
| 10 | The Labour leadership was sceptical about workers ' control , indeed Cripps is reported as having said ‘ I think it would be almost impossible to have worker-controlled industry in Britain even if it were on the whole desirable ’ ( Coates & Topham , 1975 , p. 60 ) . |
| 11 | The meaning of objects in the human world is shared among people , otherwise it would be impossible to have social relations . |
| 12 | The furniture-making craft is so wide and it covers so many disciplines that it is impossible to have in-depth knowledge of all these disciplines all the time . |
| 13 | Obviously we lose money if clubs start cancelling matches but we are fortunate to have alternative waters , ’ said Roger . |
| 14 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 15 | We are fortunate to have exact details of the type of education offered during this period , for in December 1817 James Moorhouse , a 13-year-old pupil at the School , wrote this letter to his Grandfather : |
| 16 | I 'm glad you said that , Chairman , I was I was just thinking erm , cut out the but , regarding on Equal Opportunities , erm , Policies , as we 've been discussing already , I would have thought housewives would have been delighted to have conservative hours rest presumably I just thought I was |
| 17 | Women with dependent children are less likely to have full-time jobs but more likely to have part-time jobs , than women without . |
| 18 | Carbohydrate-based drugs fall into several categories including polysaccharides , oligosaccharides , monosaccharide derivatives and cyclodextrins , and each category is likely to have distinct applications including anti-viral , anti-bacterial and anti-thrombotic uses in various cardiovascular applications . |
| 19 | large corporations and organizations , such as are likely to have in-house language training services . |
| 20 | Men with periodontitis or who had no teeth were about 70% more likely to have coronary heart disease than were men with no periodontal disease . |
| 21 | Yet the overwhelming opinion is that a significant proportion of lung cancer deaths in the UK are caused by radon , and that people who are likely to have long exposure to high radon levels are at extreme risk . |
| 22 | Indeed , in many cases they were precisely the group targeted to carry the burden of job losses in the 1980s , and even when the economy improved they remained the group most likely to have long spells of unemployment . |
| 23 | Such families are also more likely to have dangerous forms of heating , and less likely to be insured against damage by fire . |
| 24 | Manual socio-economic grades were more likely to have favourable views of HP and mail order than people in non-manual grades , and were particularly likely not to know how bank loans or credit cards worked . |
| 25 | SSDs had more knowledge of the number of disabled people in their area than had housing departments , and they were more likely to have specific policies on meeting their needs . |
| 26 | Cost , or the need to plan within specific budgets , was more likely to be mentioned by the training officer group , perhaps because they were more likely to have specific budgets . |
| 27 | Likely to have wide knowledge of both the fish and their requirements . |
| 28 | The action is likely to have wide implications . |
| 29 | One in five children was likely to have behavioural problems due to a deprived home life and other factors , Professor Stone said . |
| 30 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |