Example sentences of "have [verb] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly these measures have been controversial , and a central-local battle has developed with a strong party political character . |
| 2 | In light-water reactors ( including PWRs ) the concrete shell of the reactor building needs to withstand a pressure of five bars , whereas a fast breeder has to cope with a mere 40 millibars , according to an Electricite de France engineer . |
| 3 | Now she 's on powerful drugs to suppress the problem … and she only has to cope with a one or two fits each day . |
| 4 | Man also has to cope with a great range of natural disasters , like earthquakes , hurricanes and volcanoes — other topics studied in Geography . |
| 5 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |
| 6 | This may be the case literally when a French speaker has to communicate with a non-French speaker but , even within a common language , usage varies enormously . |
| 7 | Joe Brolly has come with a late run into the Derry side |
| 8 | The handsome ground rent taken for temporarily housing the national side has come with a built-in penalty clause , too , it would seem . |
| 9 | As Kohl ( 1988 ) has reported with a dazzling photographic portrait ( by William Thompson and Galen Rowell ) the fuelwood crisis , which is endemic to the region , is being aggravated by the fuelwood requirements of tourists . |
| 10 | Following the completion of an eight-month programme of renovations and improvements , Geneva 's Centre d'art contemporain has reopened with a new entrance and stairwell , a lecture theatre , a ‘ Projects ’ room to be used by younger Swiss artists , a workshop for children and two new exhibitions : an installation of 2400 sheets from Allan McCollum 's ‘ Drawings ’ series ( to 12 September ) and drawings and photographs by Dutch artist , Pieter Laurens Moll ( to 16 May ) . |
| 11 | In many cases where a request has been made , it has met with a flat refusal . |
| 12 | I am afraid it has met with a cool response from our colleagues , and in view of this , I am sorry to say that we will not be taking up your offer to publish . |
| 13 | The Citywatch project — which its organisers say must have private as well as public cash — has met with a mixed response from the city 's business community . |
| 14 | Generally speaking , however , family planning has met with a hostile reception . |
| 15 | Coventry , who have not won in the three matches Regis has missed with a calf-muscle injury , trail 3-1 from the first leg , but Drinkell was optimistic , saying : ‘ It 's not irretrievable . |
| 16 | The best she can do is to try to secure it by non-military , legal means , and this she has done with a fair measure of success . |
| 17 | As cholesterol is insoluble in water , it has to combine with a soluble protein in order to form a soluble lipoprotein . |
| 18 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 19 | The second reason has to do with a simple fact of communication . |
| 20 | Exercising before breakfast seems to ‘ clean the slate ’ for the body , before it has to deal with a new dose of food . |
| 21 | She has dealt with a dead passenger in Poland ( his widow carried on regardless ) , outbreaks of war in India , and breaking her own leg falling out of a rickshaw in Nepal . |
| 22 | Crocuses are plants that nature has provided with a biological thermometer . |
| 23 | One has to start with a simple physical configuration , solve the corresponding mathematical problem , then solve a similar problem and then another problem , and then a little more difficult problem , and soon . |
| 24 | Any decent reform of this nonsense has to start with a firm recognition that it is better to take money from taxpayers than from consumers . |
| 25 | But John Smith has to live with a running sore in his own constituency , just beyond the depressed eastern fringe of Glasgow . |
| 26 | In the first instance , the Centre has worked with a small number of course leaders , helping to identify , through its own contacts , appropriate live projects . |
| 27 | Over the years , says Ash , he has worked with a great number of PhD students , all of them very able , some outstandingly so . |
| 28 | The company has worked with a local college to help employees with basic English and mathematics skills . |
| 29 | This has combined with a poor record on coalition building and activist management , a public perception of lesbian and gay politics as party political and a preserve of the Left , and a high level of internalised oppression expressed as apathy . |
| 30 | I know someone who earns his living by repairing boards and he always does most business on the days after a strong onshore wind has combined with a high tide . |