Example sentences of "have [adv] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has only your best interests at heart . ’ |
| 2 | With the forthcoming publication of a government Bill on embryo research , SPUC has probably its best chance to challenge abortion laws . |
| 3 | The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died . |
| 4 | ‘ Has n't he any idea where he 's gone ? ’ |
| 5 | Has n't he any conception of the devastation caused to this planet by burning fossil fuels ? |
| 6 | And has n't his constant interference in the lives of his children probably been as damaging to their personal relationships as any of the recent scandals ? |
| 7 | she 'd never her own washing till |
| 8 | Where partners have had only their own opinion to consider , they are now compelled by their new circumstances to seek counsel from each other . |
| 9 | For a diagonal matrix D having all its diagonal elements different , it follows that C must then also be diagonal . |
| 10 | It went badly almost from the start , the Italian soldiery having as their only motivation for fighting the increase of Hitler 's empire . |
| 11 | Once the London JAC was established , the SCCs were instructed by the LCC to co-operate with the local committees , having as their principal duty the reporting of the economic , social , and educational condition of the school-leavers , while the local JACs were to supervise the conditions of employment , ensuring that they were as favourable as possible for the young people , and that ‘ round ’ children were put into ‘ round holes ’ . |
| 12 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 13 | Those in : ( 30 ) an eager student a poor liar a lousy saint ( with the latter having here its informal sense of imperfect ) are perhaps best considered as ordinary ascriptives which happen to be relativistic adjectives , so that their range of interpretation will vary according to the type of thing assumed to be described . |
| 14 | And while Bruce Springsteen does n't have quite his pre-1985 exuberance , he is still a great live performer — even if he insisted here on choosing some of his weakest songs ( Cadillac Ranch hardly seemed appropriate in this context ) . |
| 15 | The chargé , Everett Drumright , countered by reminding Rhee that the ECA was spending more than 100 million dollars in Korea at present and had perhaps its largest staff in Korea . |
| 16 | It was well after midnight and the cold surface of the Thames had only its elemental nature in common with a desert pool , and although she was once again sitting in the shadow of the Sphinx it was on cold , wet stone and not on sunbaked sand . |
| 17 | And , as time melted the sunbeam and dripped it moment by moment from the desk to the floor , Chesarynth had only her dubious belief in Friend to sustain her . |
| 18 | Miss Miggs had only her old-age pension to live on , and the return fare to Gridford , Christine found out , was very nearly seven pounds . |
| 19 | Without a base , then , Mario had only his private ambitions to fulfil , and it was to be some years before he did . |
| 20 | She had not her usual antidote with her . |
| 21 | — With Mr. Gould all this is very different — he has sufficient to live on , whether his subscribers pay or not , & can well afford the innumerable little expenses of printing — but for poor I — I have just nine and twenty times resolved to give up Parrots & all — & should certainly have done so — had not my good genius with vast reluctance just 9 & 20 times set me a going again . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 23 | Why had n't his own agency , HHCL , yet managed to net a car account ? |
| 24 | And he went to the bank and he got him three thousand pound ready and he got this beautiful car , he had n't it eighteen months before he wrapped it round a tree . |
| 25 | We have only their failed policies and an enterprise zone in Inverclyde . |
| 26 | Since you have only your own experience to appeal to , and that experience is the same in either situation , nothing can reveal to you which situation is the actual one . |
| 27 | I have also his hand-written commission appointing him Ensign , signed by Lord Berkeley , and his 1797 pattern officer 's sword . |
| 28 | ‘ Have n't we two houses of our own ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Have n't we another rafting party ? ’ |
| 30 | P.C. Well , Sir , if I have neglected my duty in the past , why have n't my superior officers done their duty and made a defaulter of me . |