Example sentences of "[vb base] have [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 The choice they make has all kinds of consequences — whether they 'll be up or down , whether they 'll be fit to drive or fit to live , and whether they are risking a criminal record .
2 Can we not reach conclusions today which I sense has some possibility of consensus ?
3 The seven surviving Ryder Cup men in the field — four missed the cut — appear to have little chance of a confidence-boosting victory .
4 This does not apply to matters of general interest , although some senior officers appear to have strange interpretations of their own .
5 I was surprised to find that hospitals appear to have standard forms of refusal to accept a blood transfusion and was dismayed at the layout of the form used in this case .
6 Other public services , notably the health service , have a comparable complexity even if they appear to have fewer levels of authority and discretions of autonomy .
7 We want to have some degree of confidence in that er the parameters that we estimate right have remained relatively constant over our sample period .
8 How significant that his response to the overwhelming evidence that the people of this nation want to have some form of democratic control over their own destiny is to propose anything other than a democratic solution .
9 For example , we expect to have two modes of b 2 symmetry , giving rise to two a-type bands in the IR spectrum of the gas .
10 Fish whose eggs and fry have little chance of surviving produce much larger numbers .
11 The orient has three species of tarsiers .
12 In contrast to the Hanmers , the Chidlows seem to have experienced years of relentless poverty .
13 We seem to have two kinds of ‘ existenceworthiness ’ : the dewdrop kind , which can be summed up as ‘ likely to come into existence but not very durable ’ ; and the rock kind , which can be summed up as ‘ not very likely to come into existence but likely to last for a long time once there ’ .
14 Might n't it be the case that those other bodies with which we seem to have personal relations of friendship , dislike etc. , actually have no mental states at all ; that there is no internal life , but only the external behaviour ?
15 Others in the same country seem to have little notion of what is happening ( e.g. Bajracharya ( 1981 ) from eastern Nepal ) .
16 If they are around people who seem to have good experiences of drugs , they 'll join in .
17 But this was one of those large , Victorian houses than seem to have endless flights of stairs leading off from each level .
18 ‘ I thought I might have hurt you — God knows I tried to be careful , but you seem to have this knack of wiping out twenty-five years of control and finesse with a single touch . ’
19 It does seem as though the Fantasy League people have it mainly correct however , as only the top 5 teams in this table seem to have any chance of getting 1st or 2nd place ( excepting maybe Norwich at 9th ) , the rest destined for mid-table ignominy .
20 But there are some phonetic sequences which seem to have semantic value of a sort , yet they do not correspond to grammatical elements : there seems to be a direct pathway from sound to meaning , bypassing grammar .
21 And no-one I know has any sense of ‘ the family ’ .
22 We 're entitled now you know to have all sorts of things done at the doctors , coming up to the right age to be hav to be done er
23 I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see .
24 Staff at DSS offices receive regular information form the Home Office , but many wives tell of officials who deny having any knowledge of the scheme whatsoever .
25 Bangladeshis in Cardiff continue to have large numbers of children , compared with Welsh and English families .
26 I try to have two pieces of fruit a day , one being an orange the other an apple , or an alternative pear
27 Try to have 20 minutes of vigorous exercise every day .
28 It 's also helpful if you tend to have low expectations of yourself and of making demands on others .
29 Obese people tend to have higher levels of insulin than those of normal weight , and the disadvantage of insulin is that it tends to further encourage the body to deposit rather than burn up fat .
30 Thirdly , those of us who are overweight tend to have higher levels of fats in the blood , and fibre-rich foods , when combined with weight loss , can help this enormously and thus lower the risk of heart disease .
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