Example sentences of "to have [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He — well , he seems to have rather a low opinion of the Pentagon . ’ |
| 2 | The early sea urchins tend to have rather a large number of plates in a much less regular mosaic than their later relatives . |
| 3 | At move 40 , Karpov seemed to have only a small advantage . |
| 4 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |
| 5 | The second reason for regarding the section as likely to have only a limited impact is that the relevant duty , like the duty to act bona fide for the benefit of the company , is a subjective one . |
| 6 | Houghton is a management analyst and appears to have only a hazy idea of how librarians organize book selection , and of the sources that they use . |
| 7 | These forms of art , however , can generally be believed to have only a friendly connection with their inspiration , which , indeed , is normally only the starting point for the exercise of the talent of the musician or the poet . |
| 8 | Poulantzas ' own position was to argue for the development of a Marxist , structuralist account which provides for the state to have only a relative autonomy and never a true autonomy . |
| 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 | This seems an academic disputation compared with the salient fact that the programme , whichever way you look at it , would appear to have hardly a single vote in it . |
| 12 | It is helpful to have both a rigid rule — a lm wooden or steel rule , say and a flexible steel tape for measuring pipe runs and so on . |
| 13 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 14 | It is to have both a mass market cover and an up-market one . |
| 15 | There was more than one kind of love and he was lucky to have even a small share of hers . |
| 16 | Unlike Leavis 's , Winters 's deconstruction of tradition proved too extreme to have even a temporary lodgement in the academy , though his readings of sixteenth-century poetry have had some influence , and a theorist such as Gerald Graff acknowledges a debt to Winters , who was his teacher . |
| 17 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 18 | We used to have quite a good time . |
| 19 | She does seem to have quite a free hand for a woman under twenty one |
| 20 | On the list of officer casualties appeared the name of a young company commander who Pétain recalled had been particularly eager to join his regiment , and had seemed to have quite a promising future . |
| 21 | You seem to have quite a large sense of pessimism about how to deal with this problem , Frankie . |