Example sentences of "to have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet coupled with their loyalty these dogs are likely to have a latent hint of aggression in their natures . |
| 2 | But he is likely to have a frustrating time of it as Industry Secretary until the economy recovers , wanting cash to fund his ambitious regeneration plans that will simply not be available in the next year or two . |
| 3 | Palms seem to have a mechanical defence in the form of a woody endocarp , familiar as the ‘ stone ’ of a date . |
| 4 | Letters which are traditionally punctuated are said to have a closed punctuation style . |
| 5 | Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman . |
| 6 | We seem to have a tremendous lot of seagulls do n't we ? |
| 7 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 8 | These were termed severe events and were assumed to have a causal role . |
| 9 | Being brought up in an institution or by neglectful parents , a pregnancy , early marriage , and showing poor planning skills were considered to have a causal role in adult depression . |
| 10 | I think she 's going to have a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 11 | While visiting the local volcano , Serena is profoundly upset by the sight of hardened lava fields around a bubbling centre , and this causes her to have a nervous breakdown . |
| 12 | Mr Ball urged the Government not to whittle away mortgage relief and to have a neutral Budget to allow a longer period of stability . |
| 13 | This approach tends to have a neutral effect on a decision about whether to be part of home or market production , avoiding women 's role being institutionalized as dependants . |
| 14 | Food markets in the UK tended , in the past , to have a homogeneous character . |
| 15 | The claim was for a conciliation board , a national minimum rate of wages , a manning scale for stokehold , deck and galley , the abolition of medical examinations by a doctors privately appointed by the Shipping Federation offices , the right of seamen to a portion of their wages while in port and to have a representative present while signing on , the fixing of working hours and overtime rates and improved forecastle accommodation . |
| 16 | Both in theory and in practice we endeavour to have a representative Association in each Division , and on them — and them only — lies the responsibility of selecting their candidate . |
| 17 | Regarding the involvement of others , besides teachers , we are unlikely to have a Swedish style debate in Parliament , despite the fact that the community has a right to it , and that curricular decision-making is a political act . |
| 18 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 19 | I thought we decided there was n't any need to have a mental picture — a picture of the wonkyness of the three-dimensional space around the Sun , or Earth . |
| 20 | Yet so many people seem to have a mental block on this point , rushing for those little bottles when common sense should tell them that they can not possibly have some dreadful plague as they have n't introduced any new fish for over a year ! |
| 21 | The hours which are wasting him away also seem to have a mental effect on Tithonus as well . |
| 22 | Thus C possesses a scalar submatrix unc in the leading position ; Equation ( 28 ) ( see 1.9(3) again ) now permits D to have a corresponding submatrix , also of order m , arbitrarily populated : thus D will have a block diagonal form . |
| 23 | Each Chakra appears to have a corresponding nerve plexus ( bundles of nerve tissue which control respective areas of the body and the internal organs they contain ) . ’ |
| 24 | Having a system is the only way to have a successful garden . |
| 25 | The more these systems are developed in concert and in a logical sequence , the more likely you are to have a successful implementation , and therefore reap the considerable benefits possible . |
| 26 | To have a successful outcome to this issue all parties concerned must feel there are benefits to them . |
| 27 | If , as it seems , the mere sight of a policeman is enough to deter many potential law breakers then Sam ( short for speed and aggression moderator ) looks likely to have a successful future . |
| 28 | The second reason was that , even were she to have a successful pregnancy and birth , she was terrified that she might one day be carrying her child in her arms when she fainted and might then drop or hurt the child in some way . |
| 29 | Fortunately dietary intervention from before conception seems to have a favourable influence on outcome , which seems to be closely associated with the degree of hyperphenylalaninaemia very early in gestation . |
| 30 | If the promised two-year review of market competition is to have a favourable outcome , the UK Government must put its own house in order . |