Example sentences of "[adv] have [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Her Majesty 's inspectorate — presumably still under the control of the education standards commission — would apparently have executive responsibilities .
2 All four groups remembered roughly the same number of words , so MPD sufferers do not merely have better memories .
3 Weak syllables , on the other hand , as they are being defined here , can only have four types of peak :
4 What , do you only have five horses ?
5 Quite apart from the fears this aroused on the left , the price of CEDA support was a return , especially in rural Spain , to the social situation of the monarchy — a course that could only have explosive consequences .
6 If you do not clear the memory by pressing ENT at the ERASE question , you will only have 15,840 bits of memory left , plus what is needed for all other functions .
7 But if they were short , they would keep you on until they could get another man from a different station , so that you might only have two hours off .
8 Some of you will only have two sheets .
9 we 'll , we 'll only have two walls to do
10 Women can only have fewer babies if they have intercourse less often ( because of delays in marriage or less frequent sex ) ; begin practising contraception or suffer from declining physiological ability to conceive ( ‘ fecundity ’ ) ; or prevent the gestation of conceptions by abortion .
11 As the country is at present face down in the mire , such a development could only have positive benefits for us all .
12 That if you work in the big city you might only have seven miles between calls but it still takes you three quarters of an hour .
13 ‘ But you can only have ten minutes for breakfast ! ’
14 Some of you will only have three sheets , which the last one will have it on two sides .
15 If you do not have a computer or you are daunted by them ( or your computer breaks down within a week of your arrival in a remote village ) you will obviously have more papers to keep track of .
16 Aye we better have two coaches extra like .
17 " Then you 'd better have second thoughts . "
18 Far better have many moots with a small or even no audience than one moot with a large audience .
19 So if they all come along with lots and lots of money they 'll all have fifteen years .
20 And instead of er having half day every day cos there were no prospects of , of much stuff coming through , they 'd say well we 'll all have two weeks off each .
21 If this is so , identically placed lesions at the two sides will not necessarily have equivalent effects , even though each intact hemisphere may be equally as capable as its fellow of subserving a given function .
22 Empiricism , as a theory of how we acquire concepts , requires there to be something which is both a ‘ state of consciousness ’ and such that it does not have logical conditions , that is , is unlike a would-be belief .
23 Languages which have morphological resources for expressing a certain category such as number , tense , or gender , have to express these categories regularly ; those which do not have morphological resources for expressing the same categories do not have to express them except when they are felt to be relevant .
24 If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently .
25 Unfortunately , he did not have certain items of information such as the history of the Star pistol found at the cottage .
26 What had previously been gossip only within a small circle had become widely known throughout the world , excepting however that substantial part of the British public which did not have international Contacts .
27 They do not have black balls at the New Club , but they have even more members in the legal profession than Muirfield ; and word reached me that the election committee had received objections to my membership too strong to ignore .
28 We do not have great writers any more , men to whom we can turn for enlightenment and discussion of the most engaging problems .
29 I do not have five roubles , therefore I can not go to the loo .
30 ? A dog that does not have four legs is not necessarily defective .
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