Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But old habits die hard and I did n't do anything of the sort , but sat there pleasantly planning my new wardrobe , with the clothing coupons and the sum of money that a grateful Government had allowed me . |
| 2 | This included important towns and cities such as Coventry and Brighton , but others were also opened in Pontypridd , Salisbury , Cambridge , and Exeter — the last being one of the last cities where a deaf school had been long established to found an adult institute . |
| 3 | It was really a pleasant surprise to have your letter . |
| 4 | It is such a pleasant change to have such a loyal employee . |
| 5 | A pleasant flight had deteriorated into every pilot 's nightmare . |
| 6 | Not that he would come to her — his manner ever since her remarks about finding a rich man had indicated quite clearly that the sooner they could part company , the better it would suit him . |
| 7 | So , a rich person has adopted you ? ’ |
| 8 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 9 | He had n't wanted an illegitimate child cluttering up his life , particularly when a rich widow had started to cast meaningful glances in his direction . |
| 10 | So anything that a landlord or a rich peasant had owned in terms of industry or commerce would be left alone and i it would still be his . |
| 11 | She 'd surely have told me if a rich relative had left him somethin' — I 'm sure she would . |
| 12 | ‘ Even though she would have been a rich woman had she married him ? ’ |
| 13 | A lead model for a square-headed brooch has been identified in Geneva ( Bonnet and Martin 1982 ) . |
| 14 | One example of a retrospective connection has already been given . |
| 15 | A FIDDLING financier has walked away with £1 million after striking an amazing deal with his bosses to escape prosecution . |
| 16 | A DEPRESSED mum has vanished with her three mischievous sons after saying she could not cope with long school holidays and mounting debts . |
| 17 | At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI . |
| 18 | When the original object of a wishful impulse has been lost as a result of repression , it is frequently represented by an endless series of substitute objects none of which , however , brings full satisfaction ’ ( vii . |
| 19 | If , for example , a shy child has been very quiet in what is supposed to be a television interview , a positive way of dealing with it is to acknowledge it as something that has happened within the dramatic fiction : " Most of us would get very nervous being interviewed for TV ; I know I would . |
| 20 | But spoliation has also been inadvertent , and many a Scandinavian lake has now been sterilized by rain made acid by the exhausts of motor cars and factories , hundreds of miles away . |
| 21 | The road emptied and the tide with a lazy paw had reached up and taken away most of the day 's leavings on the beach . |
| 22 | A multi-national practice having an office in England and Wales must have indemnity cover from the Solicitors Indemnity Fund . |
| 23 | ( a ) Where all or any of the principals of a multi-national partnership have a separate legal practice as foreign lawyers : |
| 24 | The connection between ancient houses and mysteries of a shameful kind has its origin in Gothic romance . |
| 25 | Even a decision to paint one of them a garish blue has failed to ameliorate the effect . |
| 26 | According to an Army communiqué Salvadorean " subversives " ( i.e. guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) had on May 27 , 1989 , entered a small Honduran town in the border area but had been forced back to El Salvador by a patrol ; Salvadorean aircraft and a helicopter gunship had fired into Honduran territory in pursuit of the rebels ; and a Salvadorean aircraft had flown over Honduran territory on May 29 . |
| 27 | On May 30 Honduras protested officially to El Salvador over an attack on a Honduran patrol in Honduran waters on May 23 and the violation of airspace on May 29 when , it said , a Salvadorean aircraft had dropped propaganda leaflets on refugee camps in the border area . |
| 28 | At other times the great houses of the cities of Thessaly , the Echekratids of Pharsalos , the Skopads of Krannon , the Aleuads of Larisa , co-existed , feuded and intermarried : thus a sixth-century Skopas had a mother called Echekrateia , and Pausanias ' Echekratidas ( above ) was from Larisa not Pharsalos . |
| 29 | A retentive memory has n't he ? |
| 30 | A left to Carr 's body was quickly followed by a punch to the head , and then a right hook had Carr reeling and in trouble . |