Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation . |
| 2 | ( b ) Taking instructions As noted above , the drafter needs to have a clear understanding of the nature of the client 's business , in order to ensure that the terms meet the needs of the client 's business , taking account of its products , customers and problems . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers . |
| 5 | The flash has to have a manual override to be useful , as it will serve only to tell the operator when a photograph has been taken . |
| 6 | The field needs to have a good supply of water . |
| 7 | Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence . |
| 8 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 9 | Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside . |
| 10 | 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 ) ) . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the objective threat posed by the Soviet Union and its own nuclear weapons means that the United States has to have a permanent war economy and that the people recognise this and vote for it . |
| 12 | Apart from the bike messengers , that was , and these were easy to distinguish because they were young and wiry and bizarrely dressed , and their eyes seemed to have a certain glaze on them from being on a permanent adrenaline high . |
| 13 | term once used for a person who collected alms for lepers and other beggars ; the term came to have a bad meaning because of the abuse of the system . |
| 14 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 15 | I mean , your mum on a Saturday used to have a gigantic salad sandwich ! |
| 16 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 17 | Reasoning about diseases of the heart and blood vessels began to have a sound basis when , in the seventeenth century , William Harvey established that blood circulates from the heart , through arteries to the minute capillary vessels in every organ , and back by the veins to the heart . |
| 18 | UV light seems to have a particular penchant for DNA , and the chemical changes that UV radiation causes in it are manifest as genetic mutations . |
| 19 | Fortunately dietary intervention from before conception seems to have a favourable influence on outcome , which seems to be closely associated with the degree of hyperphenylalaninaemia very early in gestation . |
| 20 | labour appeared to have a separate existence from the life of the labourer and thus appeared as an alien object . |
| 21 | Arousal in this study appeared to have a beneficial effect on memory for both types of information quite contrary to the predictions of Easterbrook 's hypothesis and to the results of the Christianson and Loftus ( 1987 ) study . |
| 22 | As nephew of the late king , Edward appeared to have a good claim , indeed perhaps the best claim , to succeed him . |
| 23 | But this second act of violence proves to have a healing effect . |
| 24 | If the heat could not be sufficiently localised to avoid this , then the first solders had to have a higher melting point than the subsequent ones . |
| 25 | Although ITT claims to have a clear lead in the new technology , it is not alone in the race . |
| 26 | Both counsellors and clients need to have a real understanding of what constitutes counselling . |
| 27 | Sarah seemed to have a special liking for angry gestures , even when she had provoked them herself . |
| 28 | The assumed humility seemed to have a soothing effect upon Major Tzann . |
| 29 | ‘ If the law has to have a proper effect then landlords and breweries should know that to serve young people like this , they are in danger of losing their licences . ’ |
| 30 | THE Republic of Ireland expect to have a full strength team out on Wednesday , they expect to beat Lithuania and they expect to be in the USA for next summer 's World Cup finals . |