Example sentences of "had [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phrase had rather a stylish ring to it he 'd decided . |
| 2 | The initial shock must have been terrible , but in fact she had rather a good war . |
| 3 | Erm towards the end of the year and the erm and Spear erm Spear had rather a good year , so that 's our capital insurance company in Bermuda erm no claims . |
| 4 | Willi , surprisingly , had rather a pleasant tenor voice . |
| 5 | ‘ I had rather a rough passage with Canon Wheeler over the sermon , ’ she said , and explained . |
| 6 | Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted . |
| 7 | Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title , and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller , but it had rather a rapacious sound do n't you think ? |
| 8 | Yesterday 's Times had rather a worried headline . " |
| 9 | The Kalkadoon had rather a different perspective . |
| 10 | I remember November 5 , 1953 , when a tendency to clear up had rather a disastrous consequence . |
| 11 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 12 | But maybe there they had only a mild form , or maybe it was n't even real polio . |
| 13 | Moreover , the United States would be withdrawing a force with stated missions in support of NATO ground forces while the Soviet fleet had only a derivative role in defending the Warsaw Pact . |
| 14 | It proved immensely effective at communicating party campaign themes to the electorate , but in the short span of an election campaign it had only a small influence on the public 's issue-agenda . |
| 15 | She was working but had only a small salary and ‘ soon found that it would be impossible to care for John 's upbringing satisfactorily . |
| 16 | For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout . |
| 17 | He had only a small shop ; it was difficult , in Budapest , for a Pole . |
| 18 | Jencks , referring to income from all sources including work , concluded that when social class background and measured ability were taken into account , schooling had only a small effect on income . |
| 19 | The earl had only a small household with him at Huncote , but even so they were ten at the high table , and all male , since the countess and her women were left behind in Leicester . |
| 20 | The exclusive " Annie Thompson " design had only a small flap — that was adequate in normal circumstances — but near disaster in an emergency , when I could not even resort to the era of the " Flapper " in her cami-knickers , and go down one leg . |
| 21 | Equally , Enoch Powell 's speeches in the 1960s which might have been designed to stir up racial animosity between the various Commonwealth communities , had only a limited impact , with Powell himself becoming politically marginalized . |
| 22 | It therefore had only a limited use in the oral short term therapy of urinary tract infections . |
| 23 | In the early stages of our argument , before the possibility of an egoistic interpretation was excluded , this implication had only a limited interest . |
| 24 | Tanganyika had only a limited tradition of an independent African press . |
| 25 | Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks . |
| 26 | Socialism had only a limited impact , however , confined ( at least in terms of parties ) to the countries where immigration was highest — Argentina , Chile and Uruguay . |
| 27 | Currency movements had only a limited impact on the results for the half year . |
| 28 | Currency movements had only a limited impact on the results . |
| 29 | Currency movements had only a limited impact on the results . |
| 30 | Its outcome is not really in doubt , not because it is a put-up job but because the CEGB would not go into such an exercise if it had only a 50–50 chance of success . |