Example sentences of "have [adv] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT issue has most preoccupied the august board members of the World Bank during the past couple of weeks ? |
| 2 | According to Godfrey Hodgson : ‘ Never has so powerful a leader been so impotent to do what he wants to do , what he is pledged to do , what he is expected to do , and what he knows he must do ’ . |
| 3 | Rarely has so important a constitutional bill staggered towards enactment so inelegantly . |
| 4 | In some HAs only half the referrals to district nursing services comes from GPs . |
| 5 | The neighbouring householder , however , earns only £15,000 — he lives in exactly the same sortof house , but has only half the income of his neighbour and , again , only one other person lives in the house , his non-working wife who brings in nothing . |
| 6 | Holligan , Liverpool 's British and Commonwealth light-welter champion , has won all his 18 contests , but has only half the experience of Rojas , who has lost 10 of his 39 bouts . |
| 7 | She has not double-glazed the house in order to preserve its architectural integrity . |
| 8 | This may not seem to be a very daunting task , but when a man who has been flying four engine jet transports all over the world is suddenly confronted with a young pilot who has just written-off the landing gear of a light aircraft while trying to land in a cross wind , the true qualities of the new inspector are under test . |
| 9 | Ludo grins and bobs up and down as if he has just unwrapped a toy train set . |
| 10 | Needless to say , we all know that Barry Douglas has just such a technique ! |
| 11 | That committee has already rubber-stamped the scheme but , to be fair , it is in no position to challenge it . |
| 12 | The implications for selling as a result of these developments have been that salespeople of fast-moving consumer goods are no longer compelled to sell the products in the old-fashioned ‘ salesmanship ’ sense , as advertising has already pre-sold the goods for them . |
| 13 | But , even though it has about half the population of a city like Leeds , the people there speak a total of three languages ! |
| 14 | The 130,000 tonnes of litter consumed each year has about half the calorific value of coal . |
| 15 | ‘ But in my book it 's good management and Ron has as good a chance as any to get his hands on that title . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She has as good a chance as anyone else , ’ observed the swan named Simon . |
| 17 | Therefore , I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman has as good a point as he thought . |
| 18 | ‘ I did not relish visiting Gayfield when I was a Celtic player and my team now has as good a chance of beating Rangers as anybody else . |
| 19 | Well Westray maybe has as distinctive a dialect as any apart from North Ronaldsay of course . |
| 20 | The word ‘ colic ’ in relation to horses has as ominous a sound as the word ‘ cancer ’ does in relation to people . |
| 21 | I like to think that I am laughing at the idea , which has as real a set of consequences as bombs in a Tom and Jerry cartoon . |
| 22 | The rule of thumb is that , whenever you choose a next node , the one you choose has as large a value f(N) as possible . |
| 23 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 24 | The government has drastically underfunded the in the community programme , the government is programme . |
| 25 | He has indeed shorn-off the dreads . |
| 26 | This main street has almost all the town 's hotels , and is filled by an admirable street market on Mondays . |
| 27 | In the UK methane gas from a London rubbish dump , which has almost half the calorific value of natural gas , is being used to fire bricks at a nearby factory . |
| 28 | It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever . |
| 29 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) has pointed out , my constituency abuts on London , and such a proposal would cause great dismay to my constituents , who already believe that London has too good a deal . |
| 30 | ‘ Submitting ’ to the experience is a necessary step which a participant may be deterred from taking for a number of reasons , particularly if he has too great a vested interest in the subject-matter or in his own reputation . |