Example sentences of "to have a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet coupled with their loyalty these dogs are likely to have a latent hint of aggression in their natures . |
| 2 | But he is likely to have a frustrating time of it as Industry Secretary until the economy recovers , wanting cash to fund his ambitious regeneration plans that will simply not be available in the next year or two . |
| 3 | We seem to have a tremendous lot of seagulls do n't we ? |
| 4 | It they had been right , matrilineal society would tend to have a lower level of technological development while patrilineal societies would have a higher level . |
| 5 | Clowns seem to have a lower centre of gravity , or a magnetic field that converts everything to prose . |
| 6 | When the amount exported exceeds the amount imported the country is said to have a favourable balance of trade or a trade surplus . |
| 7 | When Werner heard of our filming plans he took us back to his bungalow , where he proved to have a superb cook of his own , a staggering collection of ethnographic art , and an intimate knowledge of the islands . |
| 8 | Most obviously , both women and men can expect to have a recognizable period of ‘ old age ’ when they have ceased paid work , the creation of a standard age of retirement from work being a twentieth century phenomenon . |
| 9 | As you know , my intention is to have a perfect record of the island from prehistoric to present times . |
| 10 | For our purposes , it will be enough to have a general idea of what distinguishes the Caribbean Creoles from the varieties of British English to which second-generation Caribbeans in London have been exposed . |
| 11 | Is it possible to have a second chance of happiness ? |
| 12 | When he returned , after a slightly longer period than on the two previous occasions , Elisa had been persuaded to have a second cup of coffee . |
| 13 | Option 2 allows the user to have a printed list of all the books or items on loan to a particular year , class , individual or by a particular author . |
| 14 | We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it . |
| 15 | Is not it time to have a specific crime of racial harassment , as I proposed in my 1985 Racial Harassment Bill ? |
| 16 | I like communication skills best , but it 's nice to have a wide choice of subjects . |
| 17 | Tasks based on road , town , London tube and contour maps proved to have a wide range of success rates . |
| 18 | What it basically means is that an extrovert tends to tends to have a wide area of interests but wo n't investigate them as much as perhaps that that deeply , and that includes friends as well , and that includes people around them and they look at the wideness rather than the depth . |
| 19 | He is not known to have a wide circle of friends , in fact people tend to steer clear of him . |
| 20 | This excluded group , which the supplement categorises as ‘ inadequately described ’ or ‘ unoccupied , ’ and which consisted of approximately 849000 children in 1981 , is reported to have a variable pattern of death rates . |
| 21 | If it is misleading to sack magistrates at 70 , it is misleading to have a school-starting age of five or driving licences available at 17 . |
| 22 | ‘ But I would like enough money to have a nice home of my own — and to be able to set my mother and my brothers up somewhere else . |
| 23 | Teachers in higher education are bound to have a close understanding of much of the current thinking and work in their intellectual field . |
| 24 | However , he had to have a close feeling of empathy with the horse in the first place to be able to transmit the mental idea . |
| 25 | The gangling 22-year-old , a modern linguist at Queens ' College , Cambridge , is said to have a serious chance of becoming ‘ the first Kinnock in a thousand generations ’ to achieve first-class honours . |
| 26 | But for more complicated molecules we need to have a systematic way of working out how many of the molecular vibrations will be active . |
| 27 | To sustain the more general claims one would first need to have a systematic account of the class structure of a society which showed that the interests promoted by the state were in fact those of the ruling class . |
| 28 | In case anyone wants to have a tidy note of the way consonants are classified , there are many books which will give you details . |
| 29 | If her husband had let her down , as was apparently the case , she ought to have a male relation of some kind , to see to things . |
| 30 | St Mary 's Church at Fairford in Gloucestershire , is the only parish in the country to have a complete set of late medieval stained glass windows . |