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

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1 The food we eat has a significant effect upon our mental agility .
2 Nutritionists and doctors agree that the food we eat has an enormous amount to do with the way we look and feel .
3 The red chair where I sit has a long seat , comfortable for a tall person .
4 The next level are in fact magistrates , who appear to have a similar area of responsibility to our Gown Court judges .
5 So , yes there is ‘ bad ’ cholesterol , the LDL which are associated with a greater risk of heart disease , and ‘ good ’ cholesterol , the HDL which appear to have a protective effect .
6 One of the important lessons I think to learn is that the choice of course , which tends sometimes in situations of high demand to be too related to supposed vocational use , so we notice for example that there is increasing demand for courses which appear to have a vocational content , can sometimes lead to disadvantage .
7 These young patients appear to have a good prognosis following infarction and intervention policies based on exercise testing in an older age group may not be appropriate .
8 Also , some galaxies appear to have a black hole at their centre — a hole that swallows up all the stars that come near it .
9 On the other hand , the HMI 's nine areas of experience , although offering an interesting alternative , appear to have a certain arbitrariness about them , especially when one ( technological ) is added with no explanation as to why .
10 People assume , the British especially , who appear to have a unique talent for combining sentimentality and intellectual evasion , that conflict , even massacre , is in no one 's interest .
11 In practice processions appear to have a favoured place providing there is no actual obstruction , that they are peaceful and that police directions are observed ( see Hirst v. Chief Constable of West Yorks ( C.A. , 1986 ) ) .
12 Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence .
13 And I 'm sorry we appear to have a little bit of a problem with that tape , we have the wrong tape .
14 Most CABx can identify local groups which appear to have a particular need for assistance , and NACAB policy is to encourage bureaux to cater for such special groups .
15 Pupils soon grow weary of a parade of historical topics selected solely because they appear to have a popular appeal or relevance .
16 Classical periods of literature are judged severely since they represent a moment of complacent self-satisfaction in which the movement of history is artificially suspended , in which social formations and institutions appear to have a permanent position in a fixed , hierarchical structure .
17 Such statements may be based on strong conviction and close observation , and may even be felt to be self-evident , but they appear to have no empirical status — are merely , we might say , guesses — unless supported by frequency data .
18 ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said .
19 As Buxbaum suggests , ‘ [ s ] ince takeovers appear to have no systematic impact on weak management or suboptimal resource use … takeover threats can not affect management behaviour except in an inconsistent manner .
20 Despite the undeniable interest and importance of semantic and statistical studies of language , they appear to have no direct relevance to the problem of determining or characterising the set of grammatical utterances .
21 The evidence available shows that school provision could have a marked impact on the way in which special needs arise , and can be met ; yet schools appear to have no clear view on what provision is the most effective .
22 They look rather like elongated jellyfish and appear to have no structural virtues .
23 These can be substantial — one , at least , reaches over a million entries — but — they appear to have no obvious advantage over the databases described above , except , perhaps , when they afford the prospect of immediate supply from stock of titles held in their files .
24 Human intelligence , by its very nature , never fully accepts statements that appear to have no plausible foundation .
25 Releasing her , he said , ‘ For someone who 's supposedly about to breathe her last , you appear to have an awful lot to say for yourself .
26 More obviously , in ( 7 ) , we appear to have an inside view of Mrs Moreen : " When Mrs Moreen bethought herself of this pretext … " .
27 Readers of FlyPast appear to have an inexhaustible supply of knowledge with regard to their pet subject , much is well researched and the constant supply of ‘ new ’ material is never ending .
28 Married since college , they run a highly successful advertising business and appear to have the perfect marriage .
29 Until then , The Smiths appear to have the upper hand . ’
30 A photograph taken in Picasso 's studio in the summer of 1908 shows an earlier , apparently more or less completed version of the Three Women executed in a style which makes use of rough , almost violent striations , used to emphasize the different areas to the sides of the figures , while the figures themselves appear to have the rough-hewn bulkiness of much of the most characteristic contemporary African-influenced figure pieces .
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