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

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1 The fact that one of the guys in the branch has got a great big five bedroom mansion is an elephant to you .
2 But this particular branch has got a large area stretching out like , as far as .
3 Fair enough , perhaps , but your ex-wife had got a rich new boyfriend .
4 Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen .
5 And compared to me she 's a much better person than I 've ever been , she is , she 's wonderful , in , but granddad 's got a nice nature , granddad and that 's , that 's probably where she get 's it from , I 'm not .
6 Long regarded as the epitome of everything middle-of-the- road , G Plan has got a new image .
7 The Open Software Foundation 's Research Institute has gotten a three-year multi-million dollar research contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) and the Air Force Material Command to develop a distributed operating system for high-performance computing .
8 actually we , mm , at some length and had a few ideas , erm I 've got an appointment with someone at the Arts Council in a couple of weeks that the Arts Council 's got a new fund called erm consultants in research and I thought I 'd make a bid to see if we can get someone
9 But if each file has got a unique name , then that ca n't happen , so er , if you copy the all the files in that directory have got nine four as part of the file name , then if it 's got nine three then , er , you wo n't be able to overwrite any files , you have two sets of files in there , and you can sort it out later on .
10 And , and that , cos tha , cos she has n't got her husband anymore , her husband 's got a good job like , getting well into , something like and he 's got , got loads of money !
11 The one in town 's got a big sign up in the window now saying as from the 1st April , we will only do methadone prescriptions in between two and five o'clock in the afternoon , right .
12 Black Rozario 's just limping now he 's virtually a passenger and er I would think Forest have got a difficult decision to make a moment or two .
13 Cos the top 's got a good overlap .
14 ‘ I 'm sorry , ma'am , but me stepmother 's got a sickly baby and she ai n't well enough to look after 'erself , never mind him .
15 Banker 's got a nice track
16 But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then .
17 Some six hundred hectares of that land is actually designated as greenbelt , but in addition within that a number of those areas are er prevented from development in perpetuity we 'd argue because a large part of that area has got a historic status as stray land , which is a form of common land , which means it 's actually not not available for any form of development , similarly the flood planes of the river Ouse in particular is for physical development reasons er prevented from development in many areas , and those of you who were here this weekend will have no noticed the reason why , it was a flooding that took that took place on the Ouse valley , in addition to those constraints , open space within the city is at a premium erm the city falls below the Emperface standard , erm by er something like erm half a hectare per thousand population , so compared with the Emperface standard of two point four per thousand , the city reaches a quite a generous erm categorization of the recreational space we have available , only a total of two hectares per thousand , therefore , and this is very relevant to the Greater York debate , erm , really the only land for development within the city is recycled land , there are limited number of er sites which have not been developed in recent years erm which can be identified for development , and are being identified for development in our draft local plan .
18 The manager has got a difficult job .
19 ‘ I have to take this chance so that come Poland in September the manager 's got a difficult choice . ’
20 Cos the area 's got a bad name for drugs anyway .
21 up in the , from the future with a , the pink make up one , but this woman 's got a green one
22 Just as I realised that we would have to abort our manoeuvre in view of the ship 's overhanging davits there was a loud exclamation from the man on deck , " I say , Cynthia , the captain 's got a blasted parrot on his shoulder . "
23 Graeme Souness International Soccer 's got a real fight on its hands — there 's some great footy games out there , and loads of the all-time classics are now budget !
24 nine times , nine times out of ten the , the er door the back door or the front door has got a great big pane of glass on top of it .
25 There 's no doubt about that because the young man has got a brilliant , truly brilliant future ahead of him .
26 Every dancer has got a different job to do on the road — as if dancing were n't difficult enough — but you know what most people would say : ‘ It 's art , it 's dance , it 's Britain , you should be grateful to be doing it at all ’ .
27 This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others .
28 Any Uttlesford town of some size has got a comprehensive recycling centre now that takes any paper
29 Oh look , next door 's got a new car .
30 The man 's got a positive harem . ’
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