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Example sentences of "[noun] have so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	It seems clear that Branwell had so much potential , he might have been as successful as his sisters .
2	" So many clients have so much money to burn , " explained a manager of another dealing firm , as he handed round condoms to some six trainee dealers on his floor , " blow them up big " He said .
3	Sometimes the candidates have so little imagination and so little understanding of the work of the examiner that a new question is started at the bottom of the page .
4	A lot of their songs have so much personality that Mike has to be the one that plays it live . ’
5	Toyota has so much cash that it could be mistaken for a mini-bank , not a carmaker .
6	Sepp has so much experience , he can think himself into my position .
7	‘ I 'm a control freak , ’ she readily admits , ‘ but Warren has so much experience , such an overview .
8	Hank must have done a robbery to have so much money — he must have — there had been one or two bad ones recently — a Chinese grocer had been shot to death , in one instance .
9	The event was the first of its kind but the 30 participants had so much fun there are already plans to stage another hunt in the summer .
10	‘ Your friend has so much talent and she 's so … ’ he waved his hands as if trying to snatch words from the air , ‘ … she has this gift of firing one 's imagination without talking too much .
11	The concept has so much potential — so why do n't you invest ?
12	Why do farmers have so much grassland ?
13	She 'd never known the Lobster Pot to have so much atmosphere .
14	The basic and sorry fact about the grants with which Frohnmayer had so much difficulty was that they expressed not only the unity of American life , but the fissures within it .
15	Moore has so much money he could buy the entire hotel . ’
16	Some compare Portia 's characteristics to that of the Queen at the time — Elizabeth I. Women were thought of being inferior and for a woman to have so much power was a very rare situation .
17	This rarity — for a woman to have so much power and influence — caused some to compare her to Elizabeth .
18	So why has this critical theory had so little influence in the area of critical practice , why has there been no process of a filtering down of ideas from the ‘ high ground ’ of theory to the ‘ lower ground ’ of journalism , reviewing and the more quotidian criticism ?
19	People had so much difficulty with it .
20	Do other people have so much trouble with their videos ?
21	I wonder if other people have so much trouble videoing videos as we do ?
22	We need to know why the Origin of Species had so much influence despite the relative failure of its chief explanatory tool .
23	At high enough temperatures , particles have so much energy that whenever they collide many different particle/antiparticle pairs would be produced — and although some of these particles would annihilate on hitting antiparticles , they would be produced more rapidly than they could annihilate .
24	The dragonfly has so many ommatidia that it can see as well as some vertebrates .
25	In the above , some attempt has been made to produce well-sounding harmony , but the whole-tone system has so little conflict within itself that almost any combination of notes can sound tolerable .
26	And Sheridan admitted : ‘ Chris has so much ability I have got to play well just to stay in the team .
27	Never before in financial history had so much wealth been acquired so quickly .
28	This Victorian advertisement claims that Carminative Cordial tin which Dad had so much faith ) ‘ saved the lives of many , especially during the time when cholera raged in Salisbury ’ ( 1849 ) .
29	‘ WHAT surprises me now is not that my generation had so little sex in the 1950s , but that , given the circumstances , we had any at all ’ — Sir Peter Hall .
30	They 'd seen each other every day since then ; sometimes , because of rehearsals and because Gesner had so much work to do , it was only for a drink at the Franz Joseph .