Example sentences of "have [adj] means " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has private means , you know . ’ |
| 2 | He has independent means , and we 're going to enjoy every minute of our lives together . ’ |
| 3 | Thereafter the Board has considerable means at its disposal to implement these schemes , and is empowered to acquire land and buildings to promote activities and enterprises ( including the provision of grants and loans for these ventures ) and to offer advice and training . |
| 4 | An awful lot of writers have had other means of earning a living , but still , surely , have the right to have ‘ writer ’ carved on their tombstones . |
| 5 | which is to achieve greater equality but you 're having different means to achieve that . |
| 6 | Do we have adequate means of obtaining reliable information about the performance of pupils in schools and , if not , what further measures are required ? |
| 7 | In contrast , a state investment bank under the guidance of a planning apparatus could make funds available for socially useful investment projects , and where these projects were demonstrably in the interests of working people , yet were not profitable enough to attract capitalist enterprises , the state could either adjust the parameters of the market to make them profitable ( not always easy , but the state does have considerable means at its disposal to effect such adjustments ) or failing that , nationalise the enterprises concerned , on relatively strong ideological ground . |
| 8 | ‘ Having fun means having contact — either with yourself or with other people or both , ’ he continues . |
| 9 | ‘ That the spy here must have special means of conveying such information to his master and has so far failed to use it . |
| 10 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 11 | His burnished gold hair curled over the high collar of a royal blue coat , and he wore a black velvet waistcoat sprigged with silver leaves , an expensive-looking garment for a young physician unless he had private means . |
| 12 | Life in a Mayfair rectory suited her very well and she had private means . |
| 13 | The answer to this question was that they had other means of transport . |
| 14 | The uncertainty in the number that I gave you , about fifteen to eighteen billion years , is not in any sense an error due to inaccuracies of measurements of the rate at which the universe is currently expanding , but there are systematic differences of opinion about how one should calibrate the expansion rate , because people have different means of measuring the distance from us of the most luminous objects . |
| 15 | SUN HAVE ACCEPTABLE MEANS TO OFFER MOTIF PRODUCTS |
| 16 | We do have to look at all our pre-school children as a group who have similar means as they grow and they learn and they develop and I hope that we can continue to push for a co-ordinated approach to the whole range of services that we are o offering to that group of children and to their families . |
| 17 | The several carnivores , such as the badger and the skunk , which are noticeably sluggish for their size , are species which either do not need speed for capturing prey or have alternative means of self-defence . |
| 18 | ‘ I have independent means . |
| 19 | There would then be other means however for us to pursue our our concerns that have n't we know er are moving into a future speculative situation , but if they 're not taken up we have other means of pursuing those , but they would n't affect the the conformity issue . |