Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she has digested the news that she is unable to conceive naturally , she will be offered IVF — with the caveat that the method has only around a 30% chance of success . |
| 2 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 3 | Now the Presbyterian Church as the Church of Scotland enjoys a unique place in Scottish life and its structures it has a privileged place but I would suggest to you it has also therefore a number of responsibilities and one , I would suggest in this case , is to try and ensure that these local regional teams are in place . |
| 4 | Only Belgium has as high a proportion of over-60s as Britain ( 20.7 per cent ) , compared with the EC average of 19.9 per cent . |
| 5 | I doubt if it ever has as wide a meaning as that . |
| 6 | This is problematic for a group which has no longer a part to play in the productive sector . |
| 7 | To the joy of jewellers visible light has too low a frequency to excite an electron in a perfect diamond . |
| 8 | She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car . |
| 9 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 10 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 11 | I strongly support having as natural a pregnancy and birth as possible as opposed to blanket medical intervention for all women during such an instinctive process . |
| 12 | Asked why Hulme , with an open goal before him , did not move up further to be certain of his target before shooting , he answered that the man on the field did not have as clear a view of the situation around him as did the spectator and was not always aware of how much time he had for his moves . |
| 13 | Social workers should always have as clear a plan as possible for the child , and implement it in a shorter time than normal . |
| 14 | The thickness of the etch-resist coating : Presensitised boards will generally not have as thick a coating as etch-resist applied by an aerosol . |
| 15 | Unfortunately we do not have today either a Ben Gurion or a Begin . |
| 16 | We 're not having too early a lunch are we ? |
| 17 | James Worthy reported in 1950 that the policy of the American Sears Roebuck company was to have as wide a span of control as possible between stores managers and their subordinates , the merchandising managers . |
| 18 | Although it was desired to have as wide a selection of situations as possible in the stimulus set , caution dictated against simply selecting a random set of situations differing along multiple dimensions . |
| 19 | However , we have endeavoured to have as long a debate as we can on the issue yesterday and today . |
| 20 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
| 21 | We had only about a hundred miles to go but the journey was to take twenty-four hours . |
| 22 | Whereas , in 1964 , the Russians had only about a quarter of America 's total of ICBM 's , six years later they had achieved parity . |
| 23 | Roose-Evans recalled that , on stage , Crawford ‘ had even then a shining intensity and a quality of innocence , which made totally credible this adult fairy story of love and innocence , and made the play deeply poignant . ’ |
| 24 | The correspondents and editors of Fleet Street were courted as assiduously and tactfully as earlier during EEC entry with the result that the Whitelaw regimé had almost invariably a sympathetic and cooperative press on the mainland . |
| 25 | English and French smugglers would have provided us with enough of pilots and we had indeed already a few … |
| 26 | The British India Society had no longer a life than Buxton 's group ( both were defunct by 1843 ) but its brief existence indicated further fragmentation in the internal culture of the movement . |
| 27 | Phoebe had too short a fuse , and it was impossible to guess how she would be , each meeting had to be gauged with care , and it had always been so . |
| 28 | The ORTF had become too big to be effectively controlled politically by the Information Minister or effectively managed by DGs ( three between 1958 and 1964 ) ; the latter , whether top civil servants , ‘ conseillers d'etat ’ or not , were not broadcasting professionals and had too short a ‘ run ’ to master the vast and complex , heavily unionized and bureaucratic juggernaut that the ORTF had become . |
| 29 | Despite the support of parents , of fellow teachers , of priests and even of two hon. Members , one from each side of the House , that teacher was refused a hearing before the school governors and had too short a period of service to seek the support of an industrial tribunal . |
| 30 | On the other hand , our log-power estimates have only approximately a gaussian distribution , and this might lead to incorrect calculation of the likelihood of local peaks . |