Example sentences of "[be] [adj] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additional priorities must be to encourage the players to express some individual flair and support those who are prepared to have a go rather than just retain possession which Scotland did achieve against Samoa for long enough . |
| 2 | Certainly down in Sussex we have one or two people who , one or two places that have hospital radio , and welcome people who are prepared to have a go , in that sense , and that is an even more limited way of , but a legitimate way of , of learning the game as it were . |
| 3 | It must have been painful to have a man you liked appropriated by a younger sister , McLeish thought , but this self-contained creature was not going to tell him — or possibly anyone else — how it had felt . |
| 4 | ‘ We expect to attract people who are willing to have a flutter knowing that , win or lose , money will go to good causes , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Unlike the Prime Minister , I am prepared to have a referendum on this fundamental constitutional issue . |
| 6 | Pepita had been fortunate to have a job where there was a doctor or nurse on site . |
| 7 | Liquid systems are straightforward having a feed pipe from the product container direct to the non-priming delivery pump . |
| 8 | We are fortunate to have a letter from Barbarossa himself , written to his biographer , in which he tells of his campaigns in Italy and of the terrible slaughter that resulted from feuds between the Emperor and the Italian cities . |
| 9 | LAWRENSON : ‘ No but I honestly believe that there are certain members of the Press that are delighted to have a go at Liverpool because of the success that they 've had . |
| 10 | Our society 's very complex in that that erm in that sense , the effect that you feel is break the law erm you know if you want certain services , we 're supposed to have a structure in our society which is which is catered for , which caters for all eventualities . |
| 11 | Every morning they 're supposed to have a load of gunk on the pillow where it 's drained out |
| 12 | I said I 'm on a YTS , she went oh she said I do n't know if you 're for them , I said er well if you do n't I 'll find out and then tell you at the she goes , yeah , we 'll do that she says but I do , I do n't know if owe have to pay for them or not , you know she said I think you 're supposed to have a form . |
| 13 | No okay because it 's as I was saying usually between sort of round about the middle of the day there 's people knocking on the door all the time so if you can sort of get sort of earlier or later it 's we 're likely to have a y'know half an hour when I can show you to do S P S S on it . |
| 14 | I 'm very well aware that the director before me built a very stable platform on which we can operate , and that we 're lucky to have a region that 's so rich in talent , erm in artistic talent , and in enthusiasm . |
| 15 | If you get a poor launch or something unexpected happens , you are at a great disadvantage and are likely to have a problem . |
| 16 | Cells close together in the cortex are likely to have a number of interconnections whereas cells farther apart may have few or none . |
| 17 | What you also need to do is an annual cashflow projection , which will show the periods when you are likely to have a lot of bills coming in and how long you are likely to have in between to put money aside for the tough months . |
| 18 | I do not understand how we are supposed to have a system which deals best with the most difficult parts of the Community but which makes matters worse in Scotland and Wales , but that is what the scheme does . |
| 19 | Candidates under 25 are supposed to have a minimum of 5 O levels and 2 A levels ; for those aged 25 and over the university of life is enough . |
| 20 | The Conservatives have been lucky to have a plethora of external think tanks , which come up with the ideas , while being strictly deniable ( the IPPR has somehow not done quite the same for Labour ) . |
| 21 | He thinks the Pisans are lucky to have a tower at all . |
| 22 | According to Holden , most sheep in Britain are now returned to their natural vegetarian diet as a result of the BSE scare , and the Royal lambs are unlikely to have a provenance significantly different from that of the average British sheep . |
| 23 | Twenty-five to 30 people are able to have a midday meal there each day . |
| 24 | At Christmas they are able to have a pig slaughtered . |
| 25 | I had been able to have a couple of hours ' sleep here and there since the landings and , most important , I was able to move around more or less as I wanted to . |
| 26 | Milne said : ‘ The beauty of rugby is that fans have always been able to have a pint afterwards . |
| 27 | ‘ The beauty of rugby is fans have always been able to have a pint afterwards . |
| 28 | ‘ One wonders , had he been able to have a say , whether he would have wished to inflict this level of strain on those around him . |
| 29 | It would , however , be preferable to have a bile duct free of stones , and Johnson et al recently reported that in such patients initially treated with an endoprosthesis , eight of 10 who had been given ursodeoxycholic acid had cleared their stones within six months compared with only one of 10 not given this bile acid . |
| 30 | ‘ Would it be possible to have a look inside one ? ’ asked Anne Hopper . |