Example sentences of "have [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many elderly people do this each year if it is not suitable for them to go away with their family , and they understand the need those who are caring for them have for a complete break . |
| 2 | However , governments have for a long time been divided over how large a merger must be before it passes out of national hands to Brussels . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Certain types of small bacteria , called mycoplasma or ureaplasma , have for a long time been thought to be responsible for some cases of NGU . |
| 5 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 6 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 7 | Libraries and librarians have for a long time sought to play a role in the educational development of young children in the formative and primary years , particularly in the simple stimulation of the reading habit . |
| 8 | The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , local education authorities have for a long time had a duty to provide special education for handicapped children . |
| 10 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 11 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 12 | AT ABBEVILLE airfield , l'Aero Club de la Somme have for a long time have shown off Dassault Ouragon No 215 . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 15 | It is easy to assume that both workers and management in a plant have as a common objective the survival of that plant . |
| 16 | With a tripod you lose the freedom of camera mobility which you have with a hand-held camera , and if you decide to dispense with a tripod , a position at 3 m ( 10 ft ) or so from the subjects will allow you to work the zoom from wide angle down to midrange for close-ups . |
| 17 | In assessing that intention , the courts will take into account the connection that the contract and the parties have with a particular country . |
| 18 | We make-believe that the dried skull is all that we have from a modern animal , use a plaster cast to estimate how big its brain was from the skull alone , and then check with the real brain to see how accurate our estimate was . |
| 19 | Incredibly , the fine 1972 Nutcracker has yet to appear complete on CD ( Previn 's RPO remake is a bitter disappointment by comparison ) so the generous selection here ( including the ‘ Snowflakes Waltz ’ and the Finale as well as the pieces from the Suite and some other movements ) is all we have from a fine set . |
| 20 | Within this mass , the smaller workers have in a similar fashion created chambers in which the pupae hang . |
| 21 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 22 | We have in a causal circumstance by itself a complete answer to the question of why an effect occurred . |
| 23 | Moreover , Stevenson 's theory , and the attitudinism sketched above , are at their most convincing in their treatment of value charged descriptive words , among which indeed even such words as ‘ good ’ can be counted when we are concerned with the meaning that they have in a homogeneous society . |
| 24 | Added to this , MPs and ministers have in a special degree the conviction that central government knows best and that any devolution from London must mean giving powers to authorities that are poorer , weaker , slower , perhaps corrupt , perhaps more reactionary ( for Labour members ) or perhaps more reckless with public funds ( for Conservative members ) . |
| 25 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
| 26 | It is an interesting curiousity that the nearest thing that we have to a minimum wage was introduced by Winston Churchill that one-time Conservative Prime Minister , in an earlier political guise . |
| 27 | Towns like Sherwood , Arnold and Beeston , have to a certain extent been absorbed by the City and this is visible in the application of the model . |
| 28 | These J Wave scientists are investigating Britain 's club culture at close hand , and Norman Cook is the nearest thing they have to a perfect specimen . |
| 29 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 30 | One of our basic problems is that modern scientific medicine and the society which it serves have to a great extent forgotten who and what human beings are . |