Example sentences of "to have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Charles and Diana were determined that their children were going to have normal , happy childhoods . |
| 2 | The appellant claimed that he intended to have normal sexual intercourse with her . |
| 3 | It 's fairly common for young babies who are long-sighted at six months , for example , to have normal vision by the time they 're four . |
| 4 | All subjects belonged to a group of volunteers who had previously participated in other studies and who were known to have normal oesophageal motility . |
| 5 | Diarrhoea predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients were found to have normal numbers of high amplitude propagated contractions , although the amplitude of high amplitude propagated contractions was significantly reduced relative to controls . |
| 6 | Conversely , because of the universal very steep learning curves with early experience , any novel enterprise is bound to have extensive teething troubles , which should be allowed for in general even though they are not predictable in particular . |
| 7 | In reviewing reports on amyloidosis patients with intestinal pseudo-obstruction , the patients with multiple myeloma tend to have extensive smooth muscle infiltration . |
| 8 | The committee continues to have ample microbiological expertise . ’ |
| 9 | sort of the context of ideology that , you know , from a Marxist perspective it is actually useful still to have rich and poor peasants because potentially you 've got classes , you 've got class conflict and you 've got a means of making further progress towards socialism . |
| 10 | ‘ Essentially what I look for is a star , somebody with great character , , confirms Gatfield. ‘ of course , it is usually the front man , the singer , who needs to have that special appeal . ’ |
| 11 | It was unprecedented for any woman to have that effect on Davidson , whose success in this field was legendary . |
| 12 | We might like to have that distinction in mind as these lectures continue . |
| 13 | Everyone can see that Mr Kinnock is running very hard to win , straining every sinew ; but Mr Major , in comparison , does not appear to have that same , almost feral , competitive edge , that they want . |
| 14 | And it did n't help to have that idiot Kegan see what he bad done and try to extricate him . |
| 15 | To have that authority over members of the community one has to show , among other conditions imposed by the normal justification thesis , at the very least that members of the community on whom the scheme will impose some burdens have reason to contribute their share to the maintenance of the scheme . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I am glad to have that over , ’ Catherine said . |
| 17 | Its author was to have that opportunity later . |
| 18 | This means not only avoiding the use of words which might amount to a resignation on your part , but also checking whether words that apparently mean that your job has ended were actually intended to have that effect . |
| 19 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 20 | But you 're amazingly lucky to have that fifty pounds a year ! |
| 21 | Uncle was always wanting to have that tail cut shorter and we had quite a few battles about it , but I won and Prince kept his long tail . |
| 22 | One of the great benefits of being planted out by a mother church is to have that church often praying more for the new church than for itself . |
| 23 | I had to have that fish . |
| 24 | I 've been using the Strats for four or five years ; it 's nice to have that more defined sound , and more variety of tone than the Ibanez and Gibsons I used to use . |
| 25 | One of the reasons we chose the name U2 was to have that ambiguity which I think is necessary , so that it 's not so easy for people to make premature assumptions or wrong associations . |
| 26 | ‘ There was this group unity we had to have that I felt lost in and I did n't really relate to . |
| 27 | ‘ When this thing 's over , I 'm going to have that smartass . ’ |
| 28 | If that is true , why does someone with a lavish lifestyle have a right to have that maintained while families who have defaulted on £20,000 mortgages have their homes repossessed ? |
| 29 | ‘ You have to have that quality because unless you do when you are fighting an animal then it will execute you . ’ |
| 30 | And however you decorate your spacious new room , it still tends to have that feel of two rooms made into one . |