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

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1 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 .
2 The State will also have a kind of right of pre-emption .
3 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 .
4 Still , Moore does have a kind of ethical methodology .
5 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 .
6 Yes , yes , did they have a kind of marbled
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I 'd tell my husband I 'd rather have a change of holiday and not go with our friends .
10 He could have a change of heart and settle down to family life . ’
11 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 .
12 A CHURCH is praying that local planners will have a change of heart .
13 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 .
14 Does it have a sense of four legs , of the function of the surface ?
15 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 .
16 ‘ Unknown to the public , I do have a sense of humour , do n't you think ? ’
17 Raised beds should have a sense of purpose , proportion and design .
18 They may have a sense of reduced status .
19 Simon had little reason to be grateful or even appreciative of Jesus because he did not have a sense of wrong .
20 It is noteworthy that old people may not always have a sense of choice about whether or not to go into residential care .
21 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 . .
22 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 ? ’ ) .
23 Together , the two players in the development process must have a sense of mutual responsibility for projects .
24 Do dogs have a sense of humour ?
25 Obviously , the last part must have a sense of finality , but the emotion of each part of the work must have its proper place and be allied to what has gone before and what follows .
26 Of teachers , four examples , at random , covered approachability , humour and sensitivity ( SED 1989:8 ) : If you do n't have a sense of humour and ca n't laugh with the weans , you 'd crack up more easily .
27 And you will have a sense of being trusted , because of what you 're doing .
28 ‘ Do n't you have a sense of humour ? ’
29 ‘ Lithuania are n't a bad side and people should have a sense of perspective — there are no easy games in international football .
30 Susan McDonald , chairman of Cernach Co-operative , said they wanted to make Kingsridge and Cleddans — known as ‘ Up the Hill ’ and an area where few wanted to live — into a place where people would have a sense of pride .
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