Example sentences of "have a [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.

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1 The Council has a policy now of bringing all its properties up to date , but priority because they 're , bringing the houses up to date will take some eight years , priority is given to elderly citizens and people with medical needs .
2 The eruption of the volcano buried a town , Akrotiri , which is thought to have had a population originally of about 30,000 .
3 DO YOU have a washer-drier instead of a normal washing machine ?
4 Looked at in this way , terrestrial zodiacs can have a role regardless of whether they are considered objectively ‘ real ’ or not .
5 His Majesty , King George V , acting through Right Honourable Lord Rochdale , the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex , presented the merged two Urban Districts with a Charter of incorporation , which raised the status of the united Districts to that of a Municipal Borough , entitled to have a Mayor instead of a Chairman of the District — as well as Aldermen and Councillors .
6 Could we possibly be going to have a bridleway instead of a new cross-town route ?
7 But would it not be much more environmentally friendly to have a bridleway instead of yet another new road which in my opinion is not wanted or needed by the people of Darlington .
8 ‘ We could have come round and had a chat instead of having every foot patrol and Panda car in the bloody Met wandering around checking the numbers on every pigging black cab in town .
9 Millions of people had a horror both of burial and of cremation .
10 Maurice had a horror alike of all-too-neat theological schemes and systems and of ecclesiastical parties .
11 During the second session , the weather improved although we had a blizzard instead of the hail !
12 That if we had a response here of two one zeros I 've scored at the bottom of that , we 've actually got two of the logic terms matching from this particular class .
13 The light was so confusing , the monster 's movements so fast , that I had a memory only of an abstraction of sculptured bone .
14 Oh yes and there were eight choir men , you see , well no choir at all there had n't been for years , you see so er and I had a photograph somewhere of my father with eight choir men , you see , and er well after that
15 huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says
16 I have other patients to care for ; I have a day ; I have a family ; I have … you know , I have a life ahead of me , and these things do come up often enough that I saw no contradiction to the … not only the needs of the patient but the final ending — what would happen would be the same .
17 ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ you people have a habit sometimes of coming here to Israel with some specific details and thinking that from them you can deduce some universal truth .
18 ‘ Also , we had introduced performance management and appraisal and have a policy here of developing staff to their full potential , ’ he said , ‘ yet we were finding that outside stress factors were preventing people from reaching that . ’
19 All rooms are twin bedded with a private bath and loo , are luxuriously furnished , and all have a view either of parkland or the lake .
20 I have a list here of people in my particular part of the profession who have pledged themselves to assist with the great drive forward for the seventy fifth anniversary .
21 I have a file here of R&D projects undertaken by the late Head of SimFic , the traitor , Berdichev .
22 They also see that on page hundred and ninety nine , they have a picture here of crew of Rivetus and I was just getting about these names to mind , his radio operator 's name was , mine was .
23 Richard erm if I now got to the stage of saying if if you had a choice , cos I have a luxury here of six companies er most recruiters just have one job for one company .
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