Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the dream that we all had about Great Britain acknowledging it 's theatre and funding it properly has suffered a lot of setbacks since the ‘ sixties ’ . |
| 2 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 3 | Environmental Issues , which spotlights this and other surveys on page 11 , is well aware of young people 's interest in green matters and so has introduced a section specifically for them . |
| 4 | But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta . |
| 5 | King Hussein of Jordan no less has beaten a path to Costa Teguise , selecting Lanzarote , a land of unusual beauty , for his get-away-from-it-all home . |
| 6 | It means the teacher only has to write a word once , in the teacher 's book , instead of thirty-plus times , once in each child 's book . |
| 7 | She only has to express a hint of yearning for a food , fad or fantasy for her fans to start racing after them too . |
| 8 | The critic necessarily has to take a manifesto into account . |
| 9 | I 've only had to carry a pistol once , just a few hours . |
| 10 | If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing . |
| 11 | Robert Penfold 's advocacy of pulsed controllers for model railways in the April issue should perhaps have contained a motor health warning ! |
| 12 | ‘ The great and beautiful Dane Jacobsen would merely have to cock a finger and the object of his desires would surely come running . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 14 | I saw a live TV transmission of Il trovatore from the Metropolitan in New York a few weeks ago that can only have confirmed a lot of people 's worst prejudices about opera — dull production , dull filming , all wrapped round with a certain amount of superstar hype . |
| 15 | But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , ’ the Doctor had said , and the memory of his voice was so real that she almost heard the words in her ears , ‘ if anyone wanted to infiltrate the TARDIS with any kind of intelligence , from a virus to an entire computer , they 'd only have to plug a cable into the socket under the console . |
| 17 | If a form E111 had been obtained from Department of Health and Social Security , prior to departure , then the claimant should not have to pay the bill or would only have to pay a proportion of the bill at the hospital/clinic , where the treatment was received . |
| 18 | It would only have taken a word and the simple , undeniable proof . |
| 19 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 20 | At that stage Transvaal were still in the running for the night series trophy and his presence would obviously have made a difference . |
| 21 | So having prepared a board with the UV sensitive etch-resist lacquer , the next stage is to expose the board to ultra-violet light through the positive artwork , see Fig. 2 . |
| 22 | Our experience of MCI Communications Corp 's MCI Mail service makes us feel that it has a quite impressively user friendly interface , whereas we find it difficult to believe that British Telecommunications Plc 's Dialcom — or good ol' Telecom Gold — is really quite as user-hostile as it appears , so having hit a snag in MCI and keyed ‘ help ’ at the prompt , and got a couple of screens of useful information ending with two phone numbers and a further option to key at the prompt , we wondered what Gold came up with if you keyed ‘ help ’ — here is the answer — Top-level directory not found or inaccessible . |
| 23 | It was bad enough having to make a detour around Page Street without . |
| 24 | We should all have received a report from Roger about one or two accidents that have occurred on sites . |
| 25 | Not that she was n't old enough — she was well old enough to have seen a family through university . |
| 26 | If you are in this position , or even if you are lucky enough to have obtained a place on a re-entry course , it may help to make a tentative assessment of the skills you feel need to be reassessed in order to practise safely . |
| 27 | OXTON are in championship form with their recent run of success almost enough to have landed a Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition title . |
| 28 | He began , " It is bad enough to have to give a talk at 9.00 am , anyway , without having to watch yourself doing it . " |
| 29 | It rapidly deflated his pompous stance and produced an about-face smart enough to have pleased a drill sergeant . |
| 30 | It was bad enough to have to produce a mother who smelled of hens , worse to have all one 's guests disconcerted by the beady eyes of an old countrywoman . |