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

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1 Cornwall has in a separate identity with its own history , traditions , custom and language .
2 The only thing Stewart has in a nice hair-style … so nice he wo n't head the ball .
3 Paragraph ( c ) would appear not to affect decisions in cases such as Kendall v. Lillico ( see paragraph 10–07 ) and Cointat v. Myham ( see paragraph 10–08 ) cases where the purchaser chooses to buy goods for his business from a seller whose terms he has in a consistent course of dealing been apparently quite happy to accept or where the purchaser buys goods in a market in which a trade custom shows that merchants have found exclusion terms to be acceptable .
4 The opportunity to own a home and pass it on is one of the most important rights an individual has in a free society .
5 He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away .
6 Expos 'd in a True Picture of [ Jeremy Collier ] ( 1704 ) by Thomas Brown , or Hypocrisie Unmasked , the title of two works with American associations , one published in 1646 by Edward Winslow relating grievances by the Governor and Company of Massachusetts against Samuel Gordon of Rhode Island , the other published in 1776 with the subtitle or , A short inquiry into the religious complaints of our American colonies .
7 Dress 'd in a little brief authority ’ , CC 3 .
8 Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time .
9 ‘ This is one of the best evenings I 've had in a long time , ’ Sam said , sipping his coffee .
10 And how how many haystacks would you have in a good year .
11 How much faith can we have in a possible Chancellor who does not have any independent view on something as important as the PSBR .
12 Well they will have in a private school cos if they do n't have the pennies they put up the fees .
13 As you would expect , the Legal & General commitment extends to dealing with any possible dissatisfaction you may have in a straightforward , helpful way .
14 We must have in a short answer like there 's a definition , most of the concepts there will be erm defined effective protection , its optimal , optimal tariff , trained creation , or trained diversion , there will be concepts that need definition , economic jargon , so you must have an equal er definition in there and you must have examples of how this concept is used , right say erm er one of those about do n't make reciprocal dumping .
15 infer the thoughts and feelings which men would have in a particular situation if they were able to assess both it and the interests arising from it in their impact on immediate action and the whole structure of society .
16 I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump .
17 The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night .
18 Truthfulness and openness are particularly difficult aims to have in a British organization where so much of our education and background has been devoted to concealing feelings and to suffering heroically without protest .
19 Miller only credited Bartram with a few plants in the Dictionary : Lilium philadelphum , ‘ at present very rare in English gardens ’ , Toxicodendron serratum , ‘ not yet flowered ’ and Veratrum americanum , another rarity which had in a good season both flowered and seeded in this country .
20 His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time .
21 that we had in a six month period .
22 It was asked , since the testator had in a general clause charged a trust relating to all dispositions on whoever should be his heir , to pay whatever legacies he had left or had ordered to be paid or done , whether , when Seia made over the three-quarters of the estate , she should vindicate the gardens in full .
23 There are those who claim to be able to tell you psychically just who you were and what sort of life you had in a previous existence .
24 When the author of The Three Midshipmen reflected that his three heroes , supposed to be his former schoolfellows at ‘ dear old Eagle House ’ , had in a few years ‘ crossed swords with real red-capped or turbaned Mohammedans , fought with true Greek romantic pirates , hunted down slavers , and explored African rivers with voracious sharks watching their mouths , hungry crocodiles basking in their slimy shallows , and veritable negroes inhabiting their banks ’ , this rhodomontade , appealing to the eager youth of the mid-Victorian period , was entirely justified .
25 When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him .
26 Within this mass , the smaller workers have in a similar fashion created chambers in which the pupae hang .
27 ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’
28 We have in a causal circumstance by itself a complete answer to the question of why an effect occurred .
29 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 .
30 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 ) .
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