Example sentences of "[vb base] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean has any body ever actually asked you that question before ?
2 The choice they make has all kinds of consequences — whether they 'll be up or down , whether they 'll be fit to drive or fit to live , and whether they are risking a criminal record .
3 Can we not reach conclusions today which I sense has some possibility of consensus ?
4 The seven surviving Ryder Cup men in the field — four missed the cut — appear to have little chance of a confidence-boosting victory .
5 Thus the arguments for easier maintenance and greater longevity of plastic windows appear to have little foundation in fact — an argument often ignored by the brewers .
6 Curran also revealed that the Dublin soccer writers , most of whom appear to have written-off Derry 's challenge , have provided the motivation that might just make the difference .
7 Built to a 24½″ scale , the necks are maple and appear to have genuine rosewood fingerboards .
8 We have seen that theories in the social sciences often appear to have irreducible value-components which may render them fundamentally incompatible with one another .
9 The two indices appear to have equal validity in measuring the relative change in price or quantity levels between two periods .
10 This does not apply to matters of general interest , although some senior officers appear to have strange interpretations of their own .
11 Mainstream elitism is now represented by writers such as Keller and Aron , as we discussed earlier ; this refers mainly to the interactions and functions of ruling and strategic elites , and though it differs in emphasis from earlier writings , these writers appear to have normative assumptions not radically removed from those of the classical elite theorists .
12 First decide on just two matches that appear to have outstanding draw chances and mark them X in the first column of the Treble Chance ( to the right of the fixtures ) .
13 The Kenyapithecini appear to have thicker enamel than the afropithecins , although enamel thickness has yet to be measured on any of the East African specimens .
14 Nevertheless he points out that in Britain we appear to have industrial malaise , adversary politics and a society that is different in quality compared to other developed European countries .
15 Some of these lenses appear to have selective absorption at certain wavelengths , and there can be distinct changes in perceived CL colour when such lenses are interchanged during viewing of a single sample .
16 IBM and Hewlett-Packard appear to have other fish to fry .
17 I was surprised to find that hospitals appear to have standard forms of refusal to accept a blood transfusion and was dismayed at the layout of the form used in this case .
18 They did not , however , appear to have sole rights at Tilberthwaite for there was an annoyance this year when a small company working on the Baron 's land , encroached onto Coniston ground , and illegally mined ore rightfully allowed to Taylor & Co .
19 This acoustic ability of pet cats explains why they sometimes appear to have supernatural powers .
20 Quite understandably , the Commission objected to this procedure , which made UK tapwater appear to have less lead in it than the consumer experiences .
21 In addition , the clergy appear to have considerable difficulty in recognizing the transformation which theoretical positions on Christian belief and morality undergo as they are concretized in historical human relationships , doubtless also because of the strong essentialist bias in their perception of socio-ethical issues .
22 Other public services , notably the health service , have a comparable complexity even if they appear to have fewer levels of authority and discretions of autonomy .
23 Unlike subject-prominent languages such as English , French , and German , topic-prominent languages appear to have double subjects .
24 In Switzerland and in the regions adjoining the Caucasus mountains , ancient humans even appear to have dry-stored apple-halves for winter .
25 So the null hypothesis that the γ coefficients are all zero can not be rejected , and therefore neither the current nor the lagged DM 's appear to have any influence on the rate of unemployment .
26 It changes the taste of food to the extent that some dishes no longer appear to have any connection with their oil-less counterparts : a fresh sardine , for example , is quite different from one which has been transformed by being preserved in oil ( a point implied by the existence in the Czech language of two quite different words for the fresh and the oil varieties : a sardine in oil is called olejovka , from olej=oil ) .
27 For example , in the US , two that appear to have some merit are the Certified Human Service Worker assessment procedure ( National Commission for Human Service Workers , 1983 ) and the Child Development Associate training and assessment programme ( Office of Child Development , 1974 ) .
28 All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience .
29 There is a promise , and strength of quality in their songwriting , but The Prayer Boat appear to have some way to paddle before they find a grasp of the studio techniques they will need to coax real spirit from their music .
30 None the less there is a need to consider three countervailing social control forces , which appear to have some effect on persons contemplating ‘ conventional ’ crimes , to see if they act as brakes on persons contemplating corporate crime .
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