Example sentences of "to have [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Both Charles and Diana were determined that their children were going to have normal , happy childhoods .
2 The appellant claimed that he intended to have normal sexual intercourse with her .
3 It 's fairly common for young babies who are long-sighted at six months , for example , to have normal vision by the time they 're four .
4 All subjects belonged to a group of volunteers who had previously participated in other studies and who were known to have normal oesophageal motility .
5 Diarrhoea predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients were found to have normal numbers of high amplitude propagated contractions , although the amplitude of high amplitude propagated contractions was significantly reduced relative to controls .
6 Conversely , because of the universal very steep learning curves with early experience , any novel enterprise is bound to have extensive teething troubles , which should be allowed for in general even though they are not predictable in particular .
7 In reviewing reports on amyloidosis patients with intestinal pseudo-obstruction , the patients with multiple myeloma tend to have extensive smooth muscle infiltration .
8 The committee continues to have ample microbiological expertise . ’
9 sort of the context of ideology that , you know , from a Marxist perspective it is actually useful still to have rich and poor peasants because potentially you 've got classes , you 've got class conflict and you 've got a means of making further progress towards socialism .
10 DEC expects to have production-quality Alpha PCs ready in the first quarter and will be sending them out to ISVs before the end-user version of Microsoft Corp Windows NT becomes available .
11 Although a staged procedure — that is , preliminary colectomy , may have reduced the risk of performing a restorative proctocolectomy on unidentified Crohn 's disease patients , this policy was also unreliable as nine of 45 patients who had a previous colectomy eventually turned out to have definite Crohn 's disease ( n=3 ) or indeterminate colitis ( n=6 ) despite careful review of the colectomy specimens .
12 If you have funds available that you would like to have working harder for you there can be few other more secure high potential opportunities than this .
13 ‘ We prefer to have working capital rather than interest from money held in a Trust account , so we expect to apply for a bonding arrangement in the future , ’ adds Ms Burrows .
14 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 .
15 ‘ But they are really just normal , everyday folk who happen to have monster diets — every day is like a Christmas pig-out for them . ’
16 It was necessary , he had told him , for an Intelligence officer to have private quarters .
17 In total , 500 NHS patients are to have private operations .
18 Yeah it is now , yeah they used to have private caterers at one time but I believe it 's , it 's part of the club now and the profit making concern .
19 Polite , friendly , neither intense nor passionate in their responses , they do not appear to have strong opinions either about chess or about their own future .
20 Mr Hurd 's speech this week in Luxembourg , which called for the European Council ( as summits are known ) to have strong links with a reinforced WEU , would not have been made in Mrs Thatcher 's day .
21 Although the Revolutionary Command Council consisted exclusively of military men it was not devoted solely to military interests : Jallud , for example , was said to have strong support among the technocrats in the petroleum and development departments .
22 In a long and bitter attack on the political system in Germany , one commentator has drawn attention to the questionable practices which arise from a system in which parties are subsidised by the state , a practice justified by the need to have strong parties in order to maintain a healthy political culture :
23 Realistically , though , you would need to have strong evidence that the existence of such a right is part of your particular deal with your employer , and that you have been denied satisfaction from your work in a clear and unjustifiable fashion , before you could pursue litigation with confidence .
24 To move to another area of the country , as a local authority tenant , you will need to have strong social reasons .
25 While ales tend to have strong regional support , the lager market is more national .
26 Thus in this setting , ‘ family and kinship relations tended to have strong short-term instrumental overtones of a calculative kind ’ ( Anderson , 1971 , p. 171 ) .
27 Plainly , merulite tubes removed one of the favourite weapons of attack at football matches , and since the containers were easily disposed of by burning , without any pollution effects , appeared to us to have strong advantages from an environmental point of view .
28 People in Britain tend to have strong feelings about what it is like to live in rural or urban areas .
29 Brah 's own research has revealed that the larger proportion of Asian girls continue to have strong and supportive relationships with parents and that the degree of inter-generational conflict is not necessarily higher than among white families .
30 It is generally accepted that the ‘ master and slave ’ ideology of classical management theory is not properly tenable , ( although these beliefs still exist widely today and , to varying degrees , classical management theories are used in practice : bureaucracy and the formal structure of organisations offer security , familiarity and safety which continue to have strong appeal ) .
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