Example sentences of "have [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children have rather a low opinion of you , I imagine . ’ |
| 2 | In fact in my company we have rather a good scheme . |
| 3 | Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors . |
| 4 | The latter concepts , which he dubbed " the Ideas " , have merely a regulative function , in the sense that they direct the activity of the understanding towards the ultimate goals of unity and completeness , which however remain forever outside the reach of " empirical synthesis " . |
| 5 | It is shareholders who , at least in theory , appoint the chairman and should ensure a balanced board and therefore have perhaps the primary role in enforcing the Cadbury code . |
| 6 | I think one of the things which the French have learnt to do is , indeed , to integrate specialists , whether they 're scientists , whether they 're economists , erm and their generalists , that 's to say the people who have basically a legal , economic , administrative background , to integrate them within the administrative hierarchy in a much better way than we have , erm and this is erm something which does I think make it easier sometimes to provide advice that really is erm clued up about the technical aspects of something . |
| 7 | BARE ROOTED : This means the trees have been pulled up by their roots and have only a small chance of survival if planted out . |
| 8 | ‘ I have only a small medical kit . |
| 9 | We have only a small staff . |
| 10 | However , most new shareholders have only a small stake in the companies in which they have invested , and in reality they may have little influence upon the way that the companies are run ( see , for example , the claims of John Scott pp. 57–62 ) . |
| 11 | Hence we argued that , for people already in work , changes in after-tax rates have only a small effect on hours of work supplied . |
| 12 | Light chemical washes simply task the edge off the harsher colours , reproducing a degree of the tonal mellowness that comes with age , and have only a minimal effect on the integrity of the pile . |
| 13 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 14 | Like the citizens of other advanced industrial countries , Americans in general have only a slight and spasmodic interest in politics . |
| 15 | The area manager is responsible for all aspects of the working railway in his patch , including operations , and his role in liaison with the sectors , which have only a limited presence away from headquarters , is crucial . |
| 16 | They have only a limited view of science , and would have some difficulty reading , say , a textbook of physics from only about 25 years ago . |
| 17 | We have only a limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many environmental monitoring results , let alone of predictions . |
| 18 | These factors have only a limited relationship with the reader 's age but will largely determine whether a young reader ‘ sticks with ’ or abandons the reading . |
| 19 | Consequently , secondary-school pupils in China have only a limited opportunity to go into higher education and in this sense , those who do make it can be viewed as a privileged elite . |
| 20 | The disadvantages are that although most auctions allow a viewing period before the bidding starts , you have only a limited amount of time to examine the rugs , and full payment must be made at the end of the auction . |
| 21 | But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them . |
| 22 | It can not be sold ( in the absence of slavery ) and individuals have only a limited ability to transfer non-human wealth into human wealth ( though an individual can , of course , invest in himself through education or by undertaking training courses ) . |
| 23 | erm And we 've already lost planes in the erm war so far , and we have only a limited number there , while going back to the last world war |
| 24 | The vast majority of such experiences can easily be interpreted in terms of orthodox science — usually statistics : most people , including myself , have only a hazy understanding of the workings of probability , and so perfectly commonplace coincidences seem to be outrageously improbable , and are therefore viewed as being in some way paranormal . |
| 25 | Yet any study of the book and Bukharin 's subsequent writings indicate more continuity than is usually allowed for by those commentators who have only a cursory knowledge of his works . |
| 26 | Real travellers will have discovered that most taxi drivers have only a cursory grasp of English so it may come as a surprise to learn that foreign cabbies ‘ drive at breakneck speed ’ while talking eloquently of ‘ local proverbs and giving handy hints about what to buy in the local market . ’ |
| 27 | Surprisingly , astronomers have only a vague idea of how big the Universe really is because of uncertainties in their ‘ cosmological distance scale ’ . |
| 28 | It is a learning experience for me because I have only a general knowledge of the economic and financial world . |
| 29 | Development Needs — many managers have only a general idea of how they want to improve . |
| 30 | In fact , rhynchosaur teeth have only a thin layer of enamel , which apparently was readily worn away . |