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

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1 The food we eat has a significant effect upon our mental agility .
2 The red chair where I sit has a long seat , comfortable for a tall person .
3 The next level are in fact magistrates , who appear to have a similar area of responsibility to our Gown Court judges .
4 So , yes there is ‘ bad ’ cholesterol , the LDL which are associated with a greater risk of heart disease , and ‘ good ’ cholesterol , the HDL which appear to have a protective effect .
5 One of the important lessons I think to learn is that the choice of course , which tends sometimes in situations of high demand to be too related to supposed vocational use , so we notice for example that there is increasing demand for courses which appear to have a vocational content , can sometimes lead to disadvantage .
6 These young patients appear to have a good prognosis following infarction and intervention policies based on exercise testing in an older age group may not be appropriate .
7 Also , some galaxies appear to have a black hole at their centre — a hole that swallows up all the stars that come near it .
8 On the other hand , the HMI 's nine areas of experience , although offering an interesting alternative , appear to have a certain arbitrariness about them , especially when one ( technological ) is added with no explanation as to why .
9 People assume , the British especially , who appear to have a unique talent for combining sentimentality and intellectual evasion , that conflict , even massacre , is in no one 's interest .
10 The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child .
11 In practice processions appear to have a favoured place providing there is no actual obstruction , that they are peaceful and that police directions are observed ( see Hirst v. Chief Constable of West Yorks ( C.A. , 1986 ) ) .
12 Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence .
13 How does a model in which CD45R0 memory cells appear to have a shorter lifespan accord with the long persistence of immunological memory ?
14 Magnetic and optical media appear to have a shorter life .
15 And I 'm sorry we appear to have a little bit of a problem with that tape , we have the wrong tape .
16 Most CABx can identify local groups which appear to have a particular need for assistance , and NACAB policy is to encourage bureaux to cater for such special groups .
17 Pupils soon grow weary of a parade of historical topics selected solely because they appear to have a popular appeal or relevance .
18 Classical periods of literature are judged severely since they represent a moment of complacent self-satisfaction in which the movement of history is artificially suspended , in which social formations and institutions appear to have a permanent position in a fixed , hierarchical structure .
19 Now Bernard , if you really want to have a wee drink tonight love , I 'll drive home .
20 ‘ I want to have a good look round Mr Livesey 's rooms .
21 I want to work with people who want to have a good time .
22 I want to have a good talk with Mr Makepeace and Mr Farraday … ’
23 You want to have a good time and paint the town red this weekend , but somehow you feel restricted and constrained from enjoying life .
24 ‘ Users just want to have a good time , ’ he says .
25 ‘ I 'm sure you want to have a private talk . ’
26 Then , when you get the chance , you want to have a closer look and check it out .
27 We want to have a new South Africa .
28 like before the break when you want to have a permanent record of what you 'd done so that you ca n't turn round and say well I do n't remember them conversation
29 ‘ I want to have a full career here and I could n't think of a better way to do that .
30 Well I I want to have a big picture of England on the wall on which I can start to tick off bits as we get them .
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