Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast |
| 2 | She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance . |
| 3 | If someone had told him that he 'd been angry a moment before , he would 've denied it . |
| 4 | After the 21 May rally , demonstrations became relatively commonplace and on a scale which would have been unthinkable a month earlier . |
| 5 | The goal certainly gave the home side a lift and they could have been level a minute later . |
| 6 | While this view may have been valid a century ago , the situation has changed over the past two decades and ceramics are now widely used in many engineering applications , including wear components , seals , bearing surfaces and engine components . |
| 7 | BY NOW a small museum will have been open a couple of months , located on the edge of the airport at Port Elizabeth on the eastern side of the Republic of South African Air Force Museum ( of which more in the December FlyPast ) , acting as a regional ‘ draw ’ for aviation enthusiasts of all ilks in a land that is very air-minded . |
| 8 | Dr Nanayakkara said Liam 's death had caused him grave concern and he had been eager a specialist children 's pathologist should carry out the post-mortem examination . |
| 9 | A senior security service officer had been machine-gunned a week earlier in Fayoum town ( about 100 km from Cairo ) as local tensions that dated from the previous year had flared up . |
| 10 | I mean they 'll just they 'll just have it sat there empty , it 's been empty a year now . |