Example sentences of "do have the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Administrative staff were to be offered equivalent posts to those they now held , but Corporation staff did have the opportunity of transferring to other departments of the Municipality . |
| 2 | The composer did have the opportunity to revise and shorten the Second Symphony , but it remains as long as the First , and needs a strong forward motivation which it certainly receives here . |
| 3 | MPs did have the opportunity for dalliance , away as they were from home for the best part of the week — and for more than half the year . |
| 4 | But the party did have the sense to remove the figures from a policy commitment to halve the UK population . |
| 5 | Celtic did have the ball in the net in ten minutes , but Frank McAvennie was clearly offside when he pounced to beat Theo Smelders from eight yards . |
| 6 | He did have the advantage , however , of pursuing a single specific goal — that of taking the company through privatisation . |
| 7 | However , that agenda did have the advantage that it could be developed on an evolutionary basis , and that further innovations could be incorporated without major upheaval . |
| 8 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 9 | His father , however , did have the wit to apprentice his son to Clementi , the composer and piano maker , and so Field , in his early teens , was sent to London to study . |
| 10 | ‘ When The Group left , ’ says Nicky , ‘ we did have the problem of how to keep body and soul together . |
| 11 | and I think its true that if women did have the money particularly of their own they would spend it on their body 's or their faces . |
| 12 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 13 | I think , you did have the word respect in it |
| 14 | He did not imagine Randolph Henry Ash , his pen moving rapidly across the paper , but he did have the thought of the pads of the long-dead fingers which had held and folded these half-covered sheets , before preserving them in the book , instead of jettisoning them . |
| 15 | If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’ |
| 16 | In the case of Camden and Islington , the authority did have good officers , and they did have the capacity to plan for a future district based provision . |
| 17 | Pearlman was wrong because in that case the county court did have the ability to determine conclusively interrelated questions of law and fact . |
| 18 | But I did have the chance of an exhibition , and it was just at that time , and I was working hard , and she — she , well , I suppose she was a distraction . ’ |
| 19 | You did have the receipt ? |
| 20 | Shropshire did have the services of the former Worcestershire seam bowler Paul Pridgeon at the start of the season , but a breakdown in mutual respect ended that relationship . |
| 21 | I 'm sorry I did n't get round to doing it , but I did have the flu for quite a while . |
| 22 | But she did have the satisfaction that no sooner were the two decisions taken , than the entire Palais de Congress , housing the summit , the media and several thousand attendants and officials , was plunged into darkness by a five-minute power failure . |
| 23 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 24 | Gloucester could not rival Herbert 's local connections , but he did have the status to make an acceptable figurehead and he seems to have put considerable energy into the role . |
| 25 | Gloucester could not rival Herbert 's local connections , but he did have the status to make an acceptable figurehead and he seems to have put considerable energy into the role . |
| 26 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 27 | He is unlikely to have supervised personally the drawing up of every document — he had staff for that — but he did have the duty of dating the solemn privileges which were issued . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sure if King Stephen ever did have the Empress in his power he would not wave a sword in her face , ’ she declared severely . |
| 29 | They drive on the wrong side of the road for some considerable distance which actually amazes me , I 'm sitting there lawfully in the queue and someone comes whizzing by on the right er without any sight of the traffic coming the other way , er interestingly we did have the police er have had the police up there monitoring the situation . |
| 30 | ‘ Wish that I did have the courage to kiss you , querida , ’ he rasped , ‘ but I have standards and a level of decency to live up to and they are more important to me than a moment of weakness to prove that I am immune to you . ’ |