Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 2 | The critic necessarily has to take a manifesto into account . |
| 3 | Because it is an interlocutory judgement it is usually heard before a master of the High Court , and a defendant only has to show a good arguable case for the plaintiff 's application to fail . |
| 4 | Ireland prepared to face Cuba today ( 11.00 BST ) with the unenviable record of being the only side not to have scored a goal in the 12-team tournament . |
| 5 | We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates . |
| 6 | The president still has to make a host of key decisions : how generous to make the benefits ; how to pay for the changes ; how much freedom to give the states and , above all , how to sell the package . |
| 7 | Candidates also have to choose a paper in one of these two areas : the Philosophy , Nature and Practice of Geography or the United Kingdom and France . |
| 8 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 9 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 10 | Again , such subjects typically have to develop a more ‘ scholarly ’ , conceptual or abstract side in order to gain admittance to and status within the academic fold , although to some extent they can isolate themselves from other faculties and departments — art and design in the polytechnics and colleges often seem to be states within a state , enjoying an autonomy underpinned by their separate location on inherited art college sites . |
| 11 | Denied the comfortable illusion that the League could restrain aggression without killing people , pacifists now had to face a harsh choice . |
| 12 | Growers here had expected a bumper season . |
| 13 | MV The poet here has acquired a political status because of our peculiar history . |
| 14 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 15 | Institutions thus have to make a judgement as to what liquidity ratio is best — one that is neither too high nor too low . |
| 16 | Anyway , that meant I could have a decent drink and trust to luck not to have to need a lift back . |
| 17 | Mostly musicians spend their time jerking off in front of others and guitar and bass-playing readers are basically fans of the idea of that , but the truth is that it 's all individual — every neck on every guitar just has to feel a certain way . |
| 18 | Thick was the snow on field and hedge And vanished with the river 's edge , Where winter skilfully had wound A shining scarf without a sound . |
| 19 | Smaller companies or companies not having made a previous acquisition will often ask us to act as intermediaries . |
| 20 | Plans were lodged with Arfon Borough Council in April but the council still has to make a decision . |
| 21 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 22 | Scotland Today has obtained a confidential report that warns councillors they could be sued for damages . |
| 23 | The next mill downstream has had a variety of names over the years : Russell Mill , Lowes Mill and more recently , Malvern Mill . |
| 24 | Yet these movements undoubtedly have had a profound influence on Western political culture , especially in Germany and southern Europe where cold war attitudes are less deeply embedded and political processes have been more decentralised . |
| 25 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 26 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |
| 27 | It means the teacher only has to write a word once , in the teacher 's book , instead of thirty-plus times , once in each child 's book . |
| 28 | Aubrey was the elder son ( there were no daughters ) by the second marriage , Lord Carnarvon already having had a son and three daughters by his first . |
| 29 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 30 | To the commuter , the new red , white and blue house colours just had to represent a commitment to strive for quality . |