Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E . |
| 2 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 3 | Although we could expect considerable improvement in front-end processing , we were unlikely ever to have a phoneme lattice which reflected exactly both what the speaker said and the pronunciations in the lexicon . |
| 4 | It was useless to tell him that you were grown-up enough to have a mind of your own now . |
| 5 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 6 | At Glasgow School of Art , she was lucky enough to have a teacher who understood that an artist has to ‘ break down some kind of barrier within yourself ’ , transcending stifling Scottish morality . |
| 7 | Oh , he did n't earn that much playing golf , but he was lucky enough to have a substantial private income to indulge his sport . |
| 8 | Although the treatment is free , the patient may well be asked to pay for the tests used in diagnosis , and for a woman who wished to be screened for , say , gonorrhoea , trichomoniasis , and candidiasis , the bill might come to 250 francs , without the blood tests for syphilis , and if she was unfortunate enough to have an ulcer that might be syphilitic or herpetic , a further 150 francs could be added to the bill . |
| 9 | You were so young , at an age to want to experiment and to find a DJ a glamorous figure , that I imagined it was superficial enough to have a time limit on it . |
| 10 | Again , it was bad enough to have a surge associated with high spring tides , but it could have been associated with equinoctial springs seven weeks later with even more disastrous results . |