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

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1 Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted .
2 They had not a great deal of choice .
3 But maybe there they had only a mild form , or maybe it was n't even real polio .
4 Muhammad Ali , the Deputy Chief of Police , from a town with no Magharba or Zuwaya , told them they had only a little quarrel : they could easily settle it themselves ; if the police intervened it would become more bitter ; they would be wise to make peace ( sulh ) and not to call for judgement .
5 In international relations , in a broader sense of the term , they were beginning to play an increasing part , and one with immense potentialities for the future ; but even in 1914 they had only a secondary role in the thinking of diplomats or foreign offices .
6 They had only a short time before followed the tantalising fresh scent-trail laid by Grant and Larsen , which they had then lost at the foot of the house wall .
7 No well they had quite a cheap way I think they had to pay for it all themselves .
8 They had quite a warm friendship . ’
9 But er , they had quite a few computers there , and I said to Ray find out how much the computers are .
10 erm , the adventure section was quite successful in a lot of respects they had quite a few people er attached to it , the scout group and the cub group , cub packs did n't have very many , but erm the adventure section had quite a few people , er and in fact we 've got people doing the tent stalls at the moment that are from a seventh mutant , which is , what it was and of course they 've disenfranchised if you like er but we 're looking , the district is looking to create a new group with Buckland
11 Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe .
12 Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time .
13 Obviously most severely disabled persons are likely to have financial problems as they have either a limited earning capacity or even none at all .
14 Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur .
15 For one thing , they have n't a proper infrastructure .
16 They may giggle and act as though they have not a serious thought in their heads , but they know exactly what they are up to .
17 They have only a limited view of science , and would have some difficulty reading , say , a textbook of physics from only about 25 years ago .
18 The overwhelming conclusion emerging from any assessment of these programmes is that they have only a marginal impact on inner-urban problems .
19 Kestrels are very prone to tail damage — they have quite a long tail for the size of the bird and in training a leash rubbing against it can snap feathers .
20 However , because thermosetting plastics consist essentially of an irregular three-dimensional network of molecules , something like glass , they have quite a low work of fracture — seldom more than 100 J/m 2 and usually much less — and so they behave mechanically in much the same way as glass does .
21 They have quite a few biscuits for snacks although that 's probably just as bad as eating sweets — even the reduced-sugar teething rusks I give Jake taste quite sweet .
22 They have quite a few er foreign beers in er in Budgens these days cos the other week we saw some of that Brock
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