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

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1 But Sartre 's courageous intervention against French and other colonialisms could not have a corresponding theoretical impact so long as he retained his historicist Marxist framework .
2 The first is that we do not have a certain general idea , since often we do not have certain specific ideas .
3 Oh , André was always a hit with the girls , and he did have a certain effeminate appeal and a wonderful way with words , but he lacked Piers 's vitality , the vibrant sexuality that seemed to smoulder away inside him .
4 Snow does have a certain corpuscular arrangement , which fits it to produce ideas of coldness and of whiteness in us ; but just as there is nothing in fire resembling our idea of pain , so there need be nothing in snow resembling the whiteness and coldness it appears to have .
5 They may feel that a certain kind of relationship between the legislature and the executive is important ; or that the judicature should have a certain guaranteed degree of independence of the legislature and executive .
6 ‘ At ordinary times we do not read novels at all , as you may imagine , but the right novel at the right moment can have a real spiritual value . ’
7 She said I 'd have a real good time here — playing sports and sleeping in the dorm with all the other boys .
8 And I would n't ask you if we did n't have a real serious problem here .
9 Let's not have a sniffle , let's all have a bloody good cry ,
10 And you ca n't even have a bloody free Dinky car .
11 I can have a bloody big bag in front of me
12 If your computer does not have a suitable spare socket , consult the computer manual and consider whether it is practical to temporarily remove a RAM or ROM ( more likely a RAM ) to allow the unit to be plugged in .
13 The specialist brochures should have a suitable front page which relates to the interests of the target group .
14 The starting point for this was the need to decide whether the government did have a credible economic development strategy , whether there was any community focus to it , and how its various programmes impacted on communities within West Belfast .
15 As noted above , the Rome Treaty did not explicitly incorporate any regional dimension , but it did recognise that EC policies might well have a differential spatial impact .
16 For instance , Tarrow hypotheses that where a generally populist strategy is adopted by a broad-based urban-rural coalition able to call on a strong administrative apparatus , social policy may have a general redistributive impact in raising the standard of living in the periphery .
17 Or you could have a visual mounted display on the boards outside for
18 But equally well , of course , you may have a brilliant tactical win and through a failure to appreciate the strategic significance of what is going on , throw away the game .
19 A People 's Daily editorial of Jan. 16 , 1990 , entitled Leadership must be in the hands of loyal Marxists , called for the dismissal of party leaders " who do not have a firm political stand or staunch political qualities " , while Qiao Shi ( a member of the politburo standing committee who had risen to prominence in the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre — see p. 36721 ) called for " particular efforts " to be made in strengthening party centralism and unity , and urged increased supervision over the implementation of central committee decisions at all levels .
20 To perform the aids correctly the rider must have a firm steady seat and be able to use each leg and hand independently of the other .
21 However , if you have premenstrual tension , painful breasts , or an elevated blood cholesterol level , you should have a low-fat polyunsaturated spread instead of butter .
22 The Chomskian might advance the speculative thesis that any mutation causing children to search immediately in the right class of grammars would have a great selective advantage , and that such evolutionary change might well have taken place , producing human beings who are now pre-programmed to process linguistic data in a specific way .
23 So the F-Plan does have a great stay-slim bonus .
24 Tinryland was terribly disappointing on his seasonal debut at Newbury , but he would have a great each-way chance if reproducing last season 's form .
25 Did n't have a great long list , perhaps only about six or ten major P L C's .
26 Er , you would n't have a great big stack of paper in the corner of the room .
27 They 're gon na have a great big lump stuck on the house .
28 It can have a powerful emotional effect , and it is also a useful aide-mémoire .
29 Exposing oneself to the night can not only have a powerful personal effect , but , in modern cities , be very dangerous for a woman .
30 Nevertheless , local government does have a powerful democratic role as well as an important executive one , and much thought and effort need to be given to the improvement and up-dating of the system to improve its performance .
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