Example sentences of "have a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Do you have a contingency for it ?
2 May we have a debate next week or as soon as possible to consider whether we should have a referendum at any stage and in what circumstances ?
3 We ca n't have a scandal like this made public .
4 ‘ Be your own lawyer and you 'll have a fool for a client ’ , is an adage that calls for another : ‘ Employ a lawyer and he 'll have a pauper for a client ’ — Sunday Times .
5 She had never regarded herself as a very organised person , and did n't even consider she had a routine ; but when George retired , realised that she did have a kind of pattern .
6 The State will also have a kind of right of pre-emption .
7 He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God .
8 Still , Moore does have a kind of ethical methodology .
9 These are of course easy to distinguish from idioms ; nonetheless , they do have a kind of semantic cohesion — the constituent elements are , to varying degrees , mutually selective .
10 Yes , yes , did they have a kind of marbled
11 However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place .
12 The governing party does n't really have a position in the country .
13 Can you imagine it comrades , you would have a position in which we attempt to put into place a bureaucratic list of people who are meant to be Labour supporters , they are n't Labour members .
14 Not only did they drench her in a water fight when she did n't have a change of clothes and throw her on the muck heap , but on Friday evening offered her a roll filled with Doggie Dins , so she spent the rest of the night throwing up .
15 I 'd tell my husband I 'd rather have a change of holiday and not go with our friends .
16 He could have a change of heart and settle down to family life . ’
17 I sincerely hope that we shall have a change of Government in the not-too-distant future , and that my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparbrook will be able to rectify the wrongs that have been so obviously perpetrated by the Government on the prison service during the past 12 years .
18 A CHURCH is praying that local planners will have a change of heart .
19 The Millmoor club were due to give Ford a free transfer but have now indicated that they may have a change of heart following the keeper 's fine run at Scarborough .
20 May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ?
21 But we did have a church near us , and that church had a school .
22 Does it have a sense of four legs , of the function of the surface ?
23 If the children in Durham Cathedral do not have a sense of what it would cost them to break the vow of sanctuary they can not have much interest vested in keeping it .
24 ‘ Unknown to the public , I do have a sense of humour , do n't you think ? ’
25 Raised beds should have a sense of purpose , proportion and design .
26 They may have a sense of reduced status .
27 Simon had little reason to be grateful or even appreciative of Jesus because he did not have a sense of wrong .
28 It is noteworthy that old people may not always have a sense of choice about whether or not to go into residential care .
29 Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . .
30 Group members ' perceptions of expected behaviour are concerned with bits of behaviour ( ‘ Can I make jokes in this group ? ’ ) , rather than with the behaviour as a continuing phenomenon ( ‘ Do I have a sense of humour ? ’ ) .
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