Example sentences of "[noun pl] to have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the previous example , this generalization then permits the approaching waves to have a continuous wave front for appropriate values of k and a . |
| 2 | In this passage J. S. Mill resolutely turns his back on allowing sensations to have a universal character . |
| 3 | Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments . |
| 4 | As more graduates enter primary teaching , so I believe it will become easier for schools to have a common purpose and to recognize this in a jointly worked-out curriculum , with more communication and actual cross-over from one part of the system to the other . |
| 5 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 6 | And in a third sense , literature is thought by many structuralists to have a special relationship to language , in that it involves a unique awareness of the nature of language itself . |
| 7 | He found the animals to have a marked preference for woodland borders where they would build their communal nests . |
| 8 | The growth of anti-avoidance measures means that many tax havens have had to change their legislation to allow companies to have a genuine presence in the territory . |
| 9 | Many tax havens have had to change their legislation to allow companies to have a genuine presence in the territory |
| 10 | Few patients with IBS can be confirmed by double-blind feedings to have a true food sensitivity . |
| 11 | I prefer my purse nets to have a knot-to-knot measurement of 2⅛ inches ( 5.4 centimetres ) . |
| 12 | This is particularly important in relation to the GCSE examinations which require syllabuses to have a cross-curricular perspective , relating subjects to other subject areas and also to take into consideration the social , economic , environmental and other implications . |
| 13 | The Special Procedure has in fact now become the standard procedure ; it is most unusual these days to have a full hearing on the decree . |
| 14 | Today , the rose , especially the H.T. and its offspring , the Floribunda , is very big business indeed , and played for huge winnings , with large multi-national companies paying fortunes to have a new rose variety given the company name . |
| 15 | He was the first man in nearly twenty years to have a full-face mug-shot on the cover of Surfer . |
| 16 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 17 | I just want my dancers to have a great time . ’ |
| 18 | but you 're , you 're been described as a , as a , as likely in the ordinary course of things to have a benign effect would it ? |
| 19 | BLACKBURN 'S Kenny Dalglish and Joe Kinnear of Wimbledon are the latest Premier League managers to have a serious go at referees . |
| 20 | It would therefore be appropriate for senior house officers to have a formal assessment session with their educational supervisor part of the way through the post and again at its completion . |
| 21 | By designing its machines to have a modular architecture upgrading , it becomes a simple task of swapping one processor card for another . |
| 22 | Despite her efforts to have a healthy child , she had unwittingly endangered her baby . |
| 23 | It had n't grown much since he 'd cut it a week ago , but he wanted the lawns to have a shaved appearance for the Easter Fete . |
| 24 | Those in favour of fundholding saw it as an opportunity for general practitioners to have a direct impact on access to and quality of secondary care , which they could now purchase on behalf of their patients . |
| 25 | They show the same tendency that was observed in Study 2 for some junctions to have a negative correlation and others to show a positive correlation . |
| 26 | Of course , not all who attend a clinic have guilty secrets , and it is often useful for the doctor and both the sexual partners to have a joint consultation . |
| 27 | Teenage mothers are more likely than older mothers to have an unstable family background , to have poor or no educational qualifications , and to be unemployed at the time of conception ( Wells , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | They were not the result of special agreements to have a new set of conventions . |
| 29 | She said sharply , ‘ My romantic novels enabled you girls to have a carefree life , the sort of life I wish I 'd been able to give your father . ’ |
| 30 | An inter-regnum was filled by her boyfriend , Nick Rosen , a freelance journalist , who is widely believed by friends and former associates to have a strong influence on Katharine 's decision-making . |