Example sentences of "have just a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The park is part of a large complex which has just a single access onto the busy main road . |
2 | Why could n't she have had just a small taste of the honeyed delight that Rourke 's love would have brought , just a fragment of the glowing ember that would have warmed her inside , instead of this cold , bitter emptiness ? |
3 | They 're beautiful if you 're walking across the Downs and admiring the trees or the open countryside , but erm there are times , and we 've had just a recent spell with easterly winds , and we find with an easterly wind along the south coast , because of the Downs , and because of the , the Dover Straits , these easterly winds tend to erm funnel , as we call it , and therefore they are stronger than they would normally be expected to be , so Brighton does have its disadvantages in , from that point of view , but from the sunshine and the general point of view erm it takes a lot to beat the area . |
4 | I told myself I could live with the thought of having just a small part of your life and love , but when you put it into words a few moments ago I could see how awful it would have been . |
5 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
6 | In this approach , a particle does not have just a single history , as it would in a classical theory . |
7 | and a tidy pull oh I 'll have just a quick go of it |
8 | Shall we have just a quick Lisa and Dean want to tell us what 's going , cos they 've had you , had the first meeting now , have n't you ? |
9 | Or was he intending for his debut feature to have just a limited run in a few European art houses ? |
10 | It would be nice to have just a little swig of the erm of the new grape . |
11 | I 've just a quick discussion with Mr . |
12 | The ballroom had been thrown wide to accommodate the funeral guests , and Mrs Diggory was busy serving refreshments to the gentlemen who had just a short time since returned from the graveside of the deceased Lady Merchiston . |
13 | Even that respected organ The Practitioner , in a recent special issue ( 1983 , col 227 , No 1375 ) devoted to psychiatry and matters of the mind , had just a single word concerning this most widespread , of all medical phenomena . |
14 | Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation . |
15 | Unfortunately it may not be this World Cup , for the Scots have just a minuscule chance of qualifying . |
16 | The most critical one in some ways is a change in the structure of our lower jaw , so instead of having a lot of bones in our lower jaw we have just a single bone in our lower jaw , the dentory , which articulates with a bone called the scremosal , whereas in reptiles the quadrate and articular for the articulation and those bones have now got stuck into our inner ear and do some stuff about conducting sound impulses . |
17 | Most mixer taps simply use the hot and cold knobs to control flow and temperature , but some modern one-hole mixers have just a single lever which does both . |