Example sentences of "[is] [adj] have [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as it is possible to have perfect manners and yet not be a true ‘ gentleman ’ , so it is possible to be connoisseur of fine art and yet be a vandal . |
| 2 | Each of them is free to have casual encounters outside the strong arms of their love . |
| 3 | The strike is likely to have knock-on effects causing some delays for travellers tomorrow , with rolling stock likely to be left out of position as a result of today 's stoppage . |
| 4 | Carbohydrate-based drugs fall into several categories including polysaccharides , oligosaccharides , monosaccharide derivatives and cyclodextrins , and each category is likely to have distinct applications including anti-viral , anti-bacterial and anti-thrombotic uses in various cardiovascular applications . |
| 5 | Increasing the size of the brain is likely to have other effects . |
| 6 | The technique is likely to have other applications in the electronics industry . |
| 7 | This is , again , a decisive change in the genre in our time and one which is likely to have lasting effects on it . |
| 8 | Failure is likely to have serious consequences , both for patients and for the medical workforce . |
| 9 | The action is likely to have wide implications . |
| 10 | The first type of housing achieved is likely to have long-lasting implications — like childbearing . |
| 11 | Recruiting the practices through a special interest group and through self selection is likely to have biased results . |
| 12 | The treatment of public disorder in a serious documentary on a public television service is likely to have different preoccupations from the main news bulletin on the same channel . |
| 13 | The proposals have set off a heated debate within the milk industry , whose outcome is likely to have important ramifications north of the Border , where the Scottish milk boards are facing a similar fate to that of their English and Welsh counterpart . |
| 14 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 15 | Always check whether there are any payments in addition to the hammer price before the auction begins ; it is customary to have local taxes and a buyer 's premium added on to the final bid , although these are sometimes included in the hammer price . |
| 16 | But I can see circumstances in which a patient is unwilling to have certain procedures carried out and says so under the impression that in any event the emergency which would bring those procedures into play will not happen . |
| 17 | The conventional form is generally convenient ; it is useful to have equal eigenvalues in groups and to the use superdiagonal ; but in particular cases it may be well to use a nonzero quantity other than a unit in the superdiagonal . |
| 18 | Remember too that a nanny , like the rest of us , is unlikely to have vast assets which can be used to satisfy a claim . |
| 19 | This is not surprising , and is unlikely to have surprised contemporaries , or in 1008 Æthelred would hardly have issued orders for the raising of a fleet . |
| 20 | It 's important to have good friends back at home , otherwise you could turn into something you 're not . ’ |
| 21 | It is important to have good relationships within the business . ’ |
| 22 | Although I accept that people can be both highly qualified and evil , does my right hon. Friend agree that it is important to have adequate numbers of properly trained staff in such homes ? |
| 23 | These effects are apparent in a temperate country like Britain : in arid and semiarid areas where groundwater is a major or only source of water , such as the Sahel , it is essential to have adequate estimates of recharge . |
| 24 | Probably these two phenomena are not qualitatively different , but flooding is much more drastic than spreading and it is convenient to have separate terms . |
| 25 | C. For a country such as Britain , which has most of its people living in towns and working in industry and trade , it is necessary to have good communications ( roads , railways , air transport , ports , post and telephones ) . |
| 26 | If the ‘ list-system ’ is to produce a proportionate result , it is necessary to have multi-member constituencies . |
| 27 | It 's such quality and there 's no doubt about , it 's nice to have nice things but the trouble with them is she wants everything does n't she ? |
| 28 | It 's nice to have new owners who do n't think we are down among the dead men . ’ |
| 29 | It is desirable to have conventional procedures like legislation and precedent so that people may rely on whatever decisions are actually reached through these procedures . |