Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Institute of Directors , the CBI and some chartered accountants in business are critical of the suggestion in Cadbury that non-executive directors should have much enhanced responsibilities to check and balance the power of the executive board . |
| 2 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 3 | ‘ What surprises us is that a man of his means should have such superb false ones . ’ |
| 4 | I was amazed that someone should have such big ambitions for a group like ours , but the ideas were getting through and soon my own expectations increased . |
| 5 | It seemed to me extraordinary that this man should have such immense authority in caste-ridden India ; yet no one has questioned his greatness . |
| 6 | I think you should have another European language rather than French . " |
| 7 | SO FAR disappointing , Aviva Petroleum near a year 's low at 170p should have more good news on acreage soon , say followers . |
| 8 | But Mr Clinton , putting together his administration in Arkansas , stormed : ‘ They should have more pressing business . ’ |
| 9 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 10 | Outside-half Naas Botha , recently arrived from Italy , will be a reserve only tomorrow but should have more demanding duties in matches two and three in Wellington and Auckland next Wednesday and tomorrow week . |
| 11 | Compulsive eating , on the other hand , receives less sympathy and rather more tut-tutting and remarks of the ‘ should have more self-discipline ’ variety . |
| 12 | Which ever way we look at it , its nature 's way of keeping us going , its , its what 's there to keep us surviving as a species , so its , its very clever , the , it worked , worked , nature worked it out very cleverly indeed that we should have this wonderful passion for someone and it should become love and then we should have children and then it becomes a , the whole cycle and that 's , that 's how it all goes . |
| 13 | And I can remember having a rubber stamp made and every letter that went out I insisted every one should have this frank on India Must be Free . |
| 14 | When you 've done that you should have some powerful words to use appropriately when talking about feelings in a relationship . |
| 15 | " Your aunt has also expressed a wish that various of her friends should have some personal memento of her which they can choose from her jewellery , her books or the Chinese room . |
| 16 | You should have some reasonable figure in here , given the speed of your VAX and the size of the QA activities you expect to be requested . |
| 17 | All that buff paint — it was so unbabylike ; a nursery should have some pink and blue and lemon in it , like sugared almonds . |
| 18 | Your local dealer should have some empty shells for it to grow into . |
| 19 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |
| 20 | About two thirds of the men but less than half of the women answered " yes " to the question , " Do you think that young men should have some sexual experience before marriage ? " — a slightly larger figure than that of those claiming such experience — while a quarter of the men and half of the women replied , " no " . |
| 21 | Such a garden should have some permanent structure planting , preferably evergreen , around which seasonal effects may be arranged . |
| 22 | right , we should have some big bowls as well , you know , then we 'd gone |
| 23 | They should have some intraoperative measure to reduce venous stasis of the lower limbs as well as routine preoperative and postoperative prophylaxis against deep venous thrombosis . |
| 24 | I suggest that you make an ample settlement on the child and write and tell his new stepfather what you have done , and that you have done it because you are determined that no one else should have any financial responsibility for a child of your blood . |
| 25 | Perhaps companies should never seek divisional costs of capital but should have several different rates to apply to different businesses . |
| 26 | ‘ We must have that final meeting . |
| 27 | must have that blank sheet |
| 28 | We must have many other things to say — to women about their interests , needs and values , to constitutional reformers about decentralisation and pluralism , to the party itself about democratising our own affairs , to our European partners about a new European agenda — but our main task is to identify with that majority constituency . |
| 29 | Instead , each oscillator must have some minimum amount of what are called zero-point fluctuations and a nonzero energy . |
| 30 | ‘ You must have some strange problems and strange ways in which to deal with them . ’ |