Example sentences of "that he have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She 's in the bedroom , getting changed , ’ the chap said , making it very obvious that he had proprietorial interests in her .
2 I ran down to meet him , but when I got there I saw that he had narrow eyes and a mean mouth and I did n't like him one bit .
3 She said of him that he had real taste with the produce and was a willing lad all round .
4 He denied that he had prior knowledge of Ms Sayeed 's abduction , but confirmed that the JKNLF leadership was in contact with its ‘ field workers ’ .
5 The Shah replied that he had sad associations with South Africa , because his father had died there .
6 Piggy felt that he had good leadership qualities , and during the voting , he held back to see if anybody was left to vote for him .
7 Piggy felt that he had good leadership qualities and during the voting he held back to see if anyone would vote for him .
8 Rob and Heather had just joined them then , and presumably Luke had felt that he had good reason for not wanting to prolong any conversation about Elise .
9 That Act also places the onus on the knife carrier to show that he had good reason for possessing it in public .
10 She moved , uncomfortably aware that he had good reason to be annoyed .
11 One thing you could say for Daine is that he had good taste in furniture .
12 That he had good cause is suggested by the fact that the raid is mentioned in the legal formulae of the Auvergne as being a time of great destruction .
13 Mel Smith took a sideswipe at Nigel Kennedy with his announcement that he had good news for music lovers — the violinist 's appearance had been cancelled .
14 Eliot weighed in by saying that he had great hopes of a young man — ‘ rather a spotty youth ’ — called Rayner Heppenstall .
15 ‘ Eventually the doctors told us that he had black water fever or malaria , ’ remembered Joan .
16 Herluin might hold it against the boy that he had disgraced Ramsey not so much by attempting theft , but by making a botch of it , but Herluin had also been of the abbot 's party .
17 The father had not applied for a Medjay to guard his house , giving as his reason that he had efficient men of his own to do the job .
18 She discovered that he had urinary frequency and it was decided that a specimen of urine should be sent to the bacteriology laboratory to discover whether he had a urinary tract infection .
19 Q My 3-year-old mongrel has just been to the vet to have his teeth cleaned , as a checkup revealed that he had dental problems .
20 A Braemar vet , Ian Watt , said that he had long experience of co-operating with farmers and commented : ‘ Many years ago , I was involved with the MacRobert Trust on a consultancy basis .
21 The burden of proof is upon the defendant to prove that he had reasonable grounds for believing his statement .
22 By s.21(1) of the 1968 Theft Act : [ a ] person is guilty of blackmail if , with a view to gain for himself or another or with intent to cause loss to another , he makes any unwarranted demand with menaces ; and for this purpose a demand with menaces is unwarranted unless the person making it does so in the belief — ( a ) that he had reasonable grounds for making the demand ; and ( b ) that the use of the menaces is a proper means of reinforcing the demand .
23 In Harvey ( 1981 ) 72 Cr App R 139 , the Court of Appeal held that whether a threat to kill , rape or maim was a proper means of reinforcing the demand was a question for the jury , as was the question whether the accused believed that he had reasonable grounds .
24 ( 3B ) A person shall not be guilty of an offence under subsection ( 3A ) above if he proves that he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question .
25 It was just that he had strange ideas which took him into bad company .
26 About 18 months ago , the hon. Gentleman said that he had irrefutable evidence that the Government intended to abolish child benefit .
27 But Genesis delivered the coup de grace , for it was stated that God had rested on the seventh day , not that he had immediate y started work on other worlds .
28 Er , there 's a suggestion that he had mild epilepsy , and they tried to keep it quite , and his father tutored him at home .
29 The mocking-birds were probably his best clue , since here he found that he had clear evidence showing that the populations of different islands were quite distinct .
30 Dossy 's earliest ambitions were to be a writer after he was told at school that he had literary talent .
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