Example sentences of "[adv] to have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 2 | If you are fortunate enough to have a friendly neighbour who does not object to you working on your wall from his side of the boundary , then do get his agreement in writing . |
| 3 | Although they might be observed by gamma-ray detectors on satellites or balloons , it would be difficult to fly a detector large enough to have a reasonable chance of intercepting a significant number of gamma-ray photons from one explosion . |
| 4 | I am only too well aware that few are fortunate enough to have a perfect body — very few in fact . |
| 5 | It is not enough to have a political policy , and it is not enough to have a defence policy just to give it a name . |
| 6 | Well , enough to have a good time in the back row at the pictures anyway , ’ and she had certainly not elaborated . |
| 7 | You can invest up to nine thousand pounds over five years , er rates vary with the society unless you 're lucky enough to have a fixed rate . |
| 8 | If you are fortunate enough to have a modern plastic ball valve , servicing is simple and no special tools are required . |
| 9 | ‘ And not even big enough to have a decent crap on ! ’ he hurled over his shoulder before turning to jab a finger at Zen . |
| 10 | It is not enough to have a new idea ; the discoverer has to know the field within which the new idea is to be applied , so that he can evaluate its significance , and test the worth of the new insight . |
| 11 | A brave risk-taker , who is young enough to have a big future . |
| 12 | Revolution is not made by proclamations , strikes can not be declared every twenty-four hours , and in order to struggle against the bourgeoisie it is not enough to have a weekly publication or a hundred militants . |
| 13 | Well it 's part of er nationwide tour I 've been making , putting across the message that if you 're fortunate enough to have a Conservative Council , it costs you much less money . |
| 14 | Obviously the frequency of the waves we receive will be the same as the frequency at which they are emitted ( the gravitational field of the galaxy will not be large enough to have a significant effect ) . |
| 15 | Not all people who decide to work from home will be lucky enough to have a ready-made office space and they will need to make changes in their accommodation , even if it is only finding a place to keep the computer and the phone . |
| 16 | As somebody who is still under thirty and er like my good friend Mister young enough to have a positive approach to Europe , I am pleasantly surprised that the people opposite are gon na make my job a lot easier because the narrowness and the anti-diluvian attitudes that we see on the benches opposite explain why , in the last Euro elections , the Labour Party won a resounding victory on the issue of Europe . |
| 17 | If you 're lucky enough to have a clear day , the view of the distant Alps , the city and the lake beneath is quite unforgettable . |
| 18 | Join Congress , Mr Gandhi seemed to be saying , and create a party strong enough to have a clear majority . |
| 19 | The skeleton of all echinoderms except the sea cucumbers is a relatively strong assembly of calcite plates ; the animals are built from an interlocking mosaic of such plates , and mostly the skeletons are rigid enough to have a high chance of fossilization . |
| 20 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 21 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 22 | Tim leaned over to have a good look at him , but his foot slipped and he fell in . |
| 23 | Everybody tries desperately to have a good time , but it never really happens . |
| 24 | DOCTORS will today start tests on Essex toddler Rhys Daniels , who looks set soon to have a life-saving bone marrow transplant . |
| 25 | DOCTORS yesterday began tests on toddler Rhys Daniels who looks set soon to have a life-saving bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor . |
| 26 | The research programme was thus to have a broad base to provide broadly applicable results . |
| 27 | One reason why we are determined not to have a Labour Government is that they might tip the balance in the Community towards a fortress Europe and against the forces of free trade which we have successfully orchestrated so far . |
| 28 | The conference organisers themselves felt that while Black women and anti-imperialist women , including women from national liberation struggles , were represented in the workshops and on the plenary platforms ( Councillor Martha Osamor from Black Sections Campaign , Sinn Fein Women 's Department Head Mairead Keane , Jamila Haddad from the Palestinian Women 's Group , Ellie Hamunyela from SWAPO Women 's Council , amongst others ) it had been a serious omission not to have a specific workshop on anti-racism in this country , on the politics of state racism . |
| 29 | It was not to have a long future , although Mary summoned it late in 1553 to announce her proposed marriage to Philip of Castile . |
| 30 | MI6 's mistake was not to have a convincing cover story ready as soon as Crabb failed to return . |