Example sentences of "have [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur has rather a light teaching load . |
| 2 | For any given latitude the Pole star has effectively a constant altitude and the other stars Appear to revolve around it owing to the Earth 's diurnal rotation . |
| 3 | The traditional design has only a front cutting edge and is still one of the best tools to use between rows of tiny seedlings . |
| 4 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 5 | ‘ What you can be sure of , ’ said Thorfinn , eluding the question , ‘ is that the Pope and the Emperor Henry both know , and that one is dying while the other enjoys indifferent health and has only a three-year-old son to succeed him . |
| 6 | ‘ The USSR has only a small number of private cars , ’ says Bashmekov . |
| 7 | D. Although jobs in light industry are increasing , with a few in each town , the region still has only a small proportion of its workers in manufacturing . |
| 8 | The left has only a small window of opportunity in which to put its views across ; it needed every week and month it could get . |
| 9 | The herring gull has only a small chance of grabbing a nestling in the face of such opposition , and no chance whatever of sneaking up on an unguarded chick unnoticed by adults . |
| 10 | ‘ Anker stout has only a small percentage of the market so though bar owners will agree to stock it they will usually insist on selling Guinness as well , ’ explains . |
| 11 | Greenpeace and others also point out that the HMIP has only a small team of monitors and will not be able to perform the tasks of the NRA in this sphere . |
| 12 | It has only a small interest in furniture at present , having built up an enthusiastic stock market following with an unbroken record of sales and profit growth in bathroom and kitchen equipment since its was founded in 1979 . |
| 13 | Each eye has only a narrow field of view , but it can be swivelled independently to scan over a hemisphere . |
| 14 | Basically , water passes through a coarse strainer which needs a weekly rinse ; through foam that needs a weekly rinse and changing every four months ; through carbon that has only a two week life ; through two ceramic sponges that need rotating and one discarding every six months ; through the reusable Hex-Nodes and through a final polishing screen . |
| 15 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 16 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 17 | Although Nepal has only a minimal rug-weaving trade , an increasing number of good quality items are now being made in the country by Tibetan refugees . |
| 18 | Howe still needs a goalkeeper on loan because David Seaman has only a slender chance of returning on Saturday and his two deputies are injured . |
| 19 | That is to say , the order of a language is determined in some domain that transcends the language , rather than within the language itself , which has only a symbolic relationship with the domain in question . |
| 20 | I loved him , as much as an alien can entertain love for a being on a green planet where she knows she has only a certain time . |
| 21 | The corollary is that some catalogue information has only a limited life , since it may in its turn be overtaken by new research . |
| 22 | Often what happens in the context of a church service has only a limited effect as well . |
| 23 | If a statutory demand is served , the debtor has only a limited period within which to apply to set it aside . |
| 24 | Deletion of POU S has only a limited effect on binding to this motif . |
| 25 | For example , if a company has only a limited amount of funds available to spend over the next few years , centralised management would be able to take a balanced view of how the funds should be shared out between production , marketing , research and development , motor vehicles , other fixed asset purchases in different departments etc . |
| 26 | The emphasis , in other words , is upon good management rather than policy , an approach influenced partly by the need to minimize opposition from policy-conscious Whitehall departments , and partly because in the private sector-from which the managerial approach has largely been adopted — decision-making usually has only a limited policy content . |
| 27 | The first-time fighter arriving on the competition scene has only a limited number of techniques . |
| 28 | The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen . |
| 29 | Their strategy is based upon the idea that the boss has only a limited amount of sympathy and benefits to go round , and that their herd 's problems should have priority . |
| 30 | This implies , of course , that each method has only a limited potentiality and , to this extent , particular methods can be used only for certain kinds of research objectives . |