Example sentences of "[adv] had a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yet in the long run — and we have already had a pretty long run — the results are potentially devastating . ’ |
| 2 | That does mean that they have already had a very difficult exercise in terms of looking at an , an efficiency effectiveness distribution of funding and how they manage the service , and that 's very much tied in with the children 's services plan , which Mike referred to earlier on , and which is later on the agenda . |
| 3 | I am extremely sorry , but I have just had a most trying time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just had a rather intriguing chat with Irene Charial . ’ |
| 5 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 6 | His obituary , published in the paper on 17 July , stated , ‘ No newspaper anxious to serve the best interests of the country has ever had a more devoted , more fearless , and more able servant than Dr Morrison … |
| 7 | It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence . |
| 8 | I have always had a slightly suspicious attitude to information on road accidents since the Road Research Laboratory ( I think it was ) , proved some years ago that if you were killed in an accident at any age over forty , you were doing the country an economic favour . |
| 9 | Urgently needed is the same kind of attention paid to the literature of the western country that has one of the most resilient Africanist populations in the world — a population that has always had a curiously intimate and unhingingly separate existence within the dominant one . |
| 10 | I 've always had a rather ambivalent attitude towards something happening to my father , and it persists . |
| 11 | ZZAP ! has always had a very strong opinion against software piracy ( eg the article ‘ Pirate Walks The Plank ’ , Issue 87 ) and I think you 're right in many of your arguments . |
| 12 | I have always had a very considerable respect , and indeed admiration , for Mrs Castle . |
| 13 | Italians have always had a more sensual approach , a Mediterranean approach if you like . ’ |
| 14 | Within the European context Britain has always had a relatively large ‘ marginal workforce ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Patrick , we 've always had a damn good relationship , but this is outrageous . |
| 16 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 17 | I had also had a very enjoyable weekend in Sheffield when the Salvation Army invited me to make an appearance . |
| 18 | Of course , the left has traditionally had a purely instrumental attitude to culture , leisure , fin . |
| 19 | Otaka has clearly had a most inspiring influence on the BBC Welsh , so much so that I am quite convinced that anyone coming to this excellent new recording blindfolded would never guess its provenance . |
| 20 | ‘ Forte has clearly had a very difficult year , along with the rest of the industry , ’ said Mr Joseph . |
| 21 | But I do n't know anybody in there who has n't had a really good shout at him at some point , and that 's all , that 's including A O's |
| 22 | Is he the same driver that you let go two years ago , he 's an old man of the track a little at , he has n't had a terribly successful time at Ferrari . |
| 23 | Mind you he has n't had a very good partner though ! |
| 24 | So er , he has n't had a very good day at work , a bit fed up . |
| 25 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 26 | So a big issue about whether how well we 're placed with regard to America and Japan and so on is how well placed are we to bring about this educational step , and I think we 're probably about as well placed as anybody else , certainly we have n't made some of the mistakes that other people have made , we have n't had a very big investment in what 's often called computer assisted instruction , which I think is rather limited . |
| 27 | We have never had a more dangerous enemy than the one who is lying out there ’ — and he pointed to the great marsh that was all round us . |
| 28 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 29 | Most children 's agents feel that they have actually had a rather good year . |
| 30 | Batty has nt had a particularly good start to the season from what Ive seen , then again you tend to appreciate him more when you are nt playing so well . |