Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have to be stable enough to have product liability insurance before we can enter the US market . |
| 2 | Had it been broad enough to have included the purpose of the great organised movement its contribution could have been of historical value . |
| 3 | The 10% of the people rich enough to have savings accounts will be yelling for their money . |
| 4 | I thought we both looked pretty good : rich enough to have all the trappings , oiky enough to want to come on an Action Man course . |
| 5 | THERE is a spiteful tendency among some commentators to compare the fuss recently made about the losses suffered by MPs , judges and others rich enough to have become ‘ Names ’ at Lloyd 's of London , with the problems suffered by those who are unemployed . |
| 6 | Join Congress , Mr Gandhi seemed to be saying , and create a party strong enough to have a clear majority . |
| 7 | Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip . |
| 8 | John Walsh has written of Methodism earlier in the century when it was still painfully experiencing instigated mob hostility that it is " improbable that infant Methodism was strong enough to have much overall effect as an emollient to industrial disturbance , let alone prevent a general revolt " . |
| 9 | This is home video , and if the person is not familiar with the text , then it is possible perhaps to have a libretto and translation to one side . |
| 10 | After the war , it was estimated that , between February 21st and the end of June , 23,000 French alone had died in hospitals as a result of wounds received at Verdun . |
| 11 | Still , the linguistic approach is peculiar enough to have to offer rationalisations for itself . |
| 12 | Is it not exciting enough having me open my presents for you ? |
| 13 | The skeleton of all echinoderms except the sea cucumbers is a relatively strong assembly of calcite plates ; the animals are built from an interlocking mosaic of such plates , and mostly the skeletons are rigid enough to have a high chance of fossilization . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm interesting enough to have my flat broken into , am I ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's not yet old enough to have become corrupted in the same way as the nuclear industry , that Fifties wunderkind gone bad . |
| 16 | Old enough to have already proved his courage and , like Trent , a professional . |
| 17 | Only the grandmother was old enough to have lived in Palestine . |
| 18 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 19 | Not that she was n't old enough — she was well old enough to have seen a family through university . |
| 20 | She 's just old enough to have dignity . ’ |
| 21 | But there are worse things than loneliness , and I 'm old enough to have seen 'em . |
| 22 | So I do n't know if any of you are old enough to have worked in factories or have been in any in the services ? |
| 23 | From a sample of 162 eventual fellows of the society who had been over sixteen in 1642 , and therefore old enough to have taken sides in the civil war , and discounting foreigners not in England during the war years ( and a further 22 for whom there is inadequate documentation ) , 38 fought for , or supported , Parliament , while 85 were royalist in 1642 . |
| 24 | When he is old enough to have a say in the matter he will change his name to Jack . |
| 25 | " In our new austerity , I am old enough to have money . " |
| 26 | you 're seventeen years old , if you 're old enough to have sex surely you 're old enough to you know , think about it in a mature way . |
| 27 | Syl went out of his way to preserve a semblance of youthfulness , wearing his clothes untidily and even eating in a haphazard fashion as though he was n't quite old enough to have learned proper manners . |
| 28 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 29 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 30 | Death happened — they were old enough to have acknowledged that . |