Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ . |
| 2 | Being brought up in an institution or by neglectful parents , a pregnancy , early marriage , and showing poor planning skills were considered to have a causal role in adult depression . |
| 3 | The Committee suggested that the Lord Chancellor should appoint chairmen and clearly favoured an increase in the use of lawyer chairmen principally because lawyers were considered to have a good grasp of principles of procedural fairness . |
| 4 | Few authorities were felt to have a coherent policy on supporting their older children . |
| 5 | These inadequacies of structure in turn were thought to have a bad effect on the efficient delivery of local government services , and on the ability of citizens to understand the role of local democracy . |
| 6 | Did I , but you you you brought it up last meeting , that that that erm people were going as supposed to be coming back with good ideas as to how to cope with interviews in other rooms , but we said in last time that we were going to have a personal round bill . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew we were going to have a stormy passage right away , ’ said Milestone . |
| 8 | They just found this bomb and they were going to have a controlled explosion at the car park |
| 9 | Table tennis was their main sport , so of course , just by sheer numbers and probability , they were going to have a fantastic team . |
| 10 | " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said . |
| 11 | ‘ We were going to have a nice family Christmas . |
| 12 | The pictures were going to have a final edit anyway it certainly was not simply a question of the controversy which started late last week . ’ |
| 13 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 14 | Er when you did get a suit it had to be kept for Sunday , for going to chapel you see , and if you were going to have a new suit it would always be at anniversary time , you did n't get one every anniversary . |
| 15 | We were going to have a special meal … . |
| 16 | I remember because in nineteen thirty eight , er we were scheduled to have an opening in about the September and we got a team coming down to play us at football and we were going to have a social evening , darts and that , at , in the evening and of course at that particular time , the war was a definite threat . |
| 17 | For he was employed by the LMS railway as a train guard , and guards were compelled to have a good knowledge of first-aid . |
| 18 | Initially , crops were grown which were known to have a high tolerance for metals and sulphates such as alfalfa , wheat and corn . |
| 19 | The toss went in Oxford 's favour , Jo Michels taking Middlesex for the tactical advantage of the first bend , since Cambridge were known to have a fast start . |
| 20 | About 1970 a number of young adult women were found to have a rare cancer of the vagina : the appearance of several cases close together prompted enquiry about possible causes . |
| 21 | By intragastric titration 1.4% and 4% ethanol were found to have a stimulatory effect on gastric acid secretion with a response equal to 23% and 22% respectively of the pentagastrin stimulated incremental acid output ( maximal acid output-basal acid output ) . |
| 22 | Patients attending the cystic fibrosis clinic in Melbourne were found to have a good outlook with respect to employment and social life , and a study at the Brompton Hospital characterising clinical and social features of patients attending its cystic fibrosis clinic found a similarly good outlook . |
| 23 | Studies were undertaken in 176 male patients who were having investigational colonoscopy and who were found to have a normal colon . |
| 24 | These were termed severe events and were assumed to have a causal role . |
| 25 | Twentieth-century evolutionists such as George Gaylord Simpson have argued that Darwin 's theory of adaptive evolution is incompatible with a belief in the necessity of progress , but in the late nineteenth century a philosophy of universal change could only be accepted if the changes were assumed to have a purposeful goal . |
| 26 | And we were sitting having a wee drink |
| 27 | Mr Spurgeon and Mr Spurgeon 's people were determined to have a great chapel . ’ |
| 28 | Although Reg 20 obviously contemplated primarily an actual employer and employee , it was clear that , having regard to the statutory scheme as a whole , Reg 20 was intended to have a general application . |
| 29 | A patient was considered to have a previous diagnosis of asthma if they were enrolled in the pulmonary clinic with the diagnosis of asthma , were receiving chronic bronchodilator therapy , and had a FEV 1 of not less than 1.5 litres . |
| 30 | Moreover there were certain branches of the governmental machine and certain aspects of policy on which the king was considered to have a special right to make his views heard . |