Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] 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 | Supermarkets , including Tesco 's store in Banbury and the Co-Op in Kidlington , were also found to be selling ham , which experts say had a high risk of food poisoning . |
| 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 | Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence . |
| 5 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 6 | Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside . |
| 7 | 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 ) ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the output equation the unpredictable monetary growth variables do have a significant , positive effect on real output , although the impacts of and are less significant than Barro found for the US . |
| 10 | So those animals do have a raw deal ! |
| 11 | If so , bearing in mind that intention in this context is not the same as motive and that the tort may be committed without any ill will towards the plaintiff , it is likely to be a rare case in which A's words have had a causative effect on B's conduct and yet A escapes liability on the ground that they were only ‘ advice . ’ |
| 12 | The rest of the Peachtree side have had a mixed time . |
| 13 | To my knowledge , such considerations have had a major influence on the circumstances of many other homeless people in West Yorkshire and elsewhere . |
| 14 | In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two . |
| 15 | ‘ Jesus Christ , Piper , the mauses have had a bloody good go at you last night . |
| 16 | Pesticides have had a damaging effect on a lot of wildlife , including birds of prey , but for some reason this does n't seem to have affected barn owls as much as the sparrowhawk and peregrine populations . |
| 17 | Both counsellors and clients need to have a real understanding of what constitutes counselling . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 20 | Although some Roman keys do have a vertical bow , keys from the Saxon and medieval periods rarely employ a horizontal bow . |
| 21 | And for another , it 's about the only one that England do have a vague chance of winning . |
| 22 | And there is no doubt that some large companies do have a deliberate policy of delaying payments well beyond the agreed credit terms . |
| 23 | Diarrhetic shellfish toxins have had a disastrous effect on the seafood industry in many parts of the world . |
| 24 | ‘ Apparently Emma and Sophie are fine — bearing up very well — although Mrs Meadows says that she has n't done any more than to tell the children that their parents have had a slight accident . |
| 25 | Millions of visitors have had a nice day out and spent a lot of money . |
| 26 | The state enterprises in both countries have had a considerable economic weight in terms of contribution to GNP , employment and investment . |
| 27 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 28 | Despite all that those and others have contributed to Scottish rugby , the exiles have had a tempered love-hate relationship with us back home . |
| 29 | As he put it : ‘ The planners and the road engineers have had a good bashing , but they have learnt their lesson . |
| 30 | On the whole , algebraists seem to have a slight preference for the latter whilst analysts tend to prefer the former , perhaps because of tradition . |