Example sentences of "[modal v] have [adj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's astonishing to me that a boy whose father and grandfather have both been soldiers before him should have such a poorly developed sense of loyalty arid duty . " |
| 2 | He had piercing blue eyes , hooded eyelids , a tanned , hard-boned face and a mouth so firm and uncompromising that Rachel felt a quiver go through her , a prickling of intense attraction , then , as her eyes flicked to Jenny , a sudden rush of envy that Jenny should have such a superb secret lover . |
| 3 | She guessed he was probably still staring after her , but she did n't care then about anything but the fact that he should have such a low opinion of her . |
| 4 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 5 | It is a tribute to the makers of The Krays , to its director and cast , that it should have such a profound effect . |
| 6 | There seems to have been very little resentment that Eva should have such a unique opportunity . |
| 7 | Commenting on our current series on education , he said ‘ I think that the series is an excellent idea ’ , but he then went on to say ‘ It does seem to me rather odd that such a series should have such a heavy university representation and so little input from the teachers ’ . |
| 8 | At the departmental level we might have ten a hundred possibly a thousand users but when we go enterprise-wide there may be thousands or many tens of thousands of users . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't know I could have such a good time so close to home . |
| 10 | Not for anything would she give him the satisfaction of knowing his opinion could have such a devastating effect on her . |
| 11 | This account of his life and work is included as a reminder of how one man , from unremarkable beginnings , could have such a remarkable impact in a sphere characterized only by indifference . |
| 12 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |
| 13 | After receiving cases of whisky and champagne for being both top trainer at Hamilton and provider of most runners at the track this year , Berry said : ‘ I 've only a few left to run at Edinburgh on Thursday and Doncaster this weekend , but I could have half a dozen for the all-weather courses . |
| 14 | Well we always do , I mean if you 'd use all that was in that cupboard you 'd have half a dozen jumpers |
| 15 | White flour may have half a dozen substances , including improvers and nutrients , added to it . |
| 16 | On this assumption , a Cambridge don , John Michell , wrote a paper in 1783 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which he pointed out that a star that was sufficiently massive and compact would have such a strong gravitational field that light could not escape : any light emitted from the surface of the star would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational attraction before it could get very far . |
| 17 | Brophy however insisted that if test-tube fusion holds up it would have such a major impact on society that ‘ Sometimes one has more responsibility to society than to the scientific community . ’ |
| 18 | In Britain , Tin Machine 's imaginative brand of tense , futuristic grunge has regularly been the butt of the kind of vitriolic press coverage that would have many a younger , less experienced band pleading for their day jobs back . |
| 19 | He knew the Beadles well — they were very forceful and witty and Uncle would have many a fierce but friendly argument with them . |
| 20 | Every year he would have half a dozen nine- and 10-year-olds in his class who could barely read . |
| 21 | Any fall in interest rates will have such a strong effect on international capital flows and the exchange rate that the rise in money supply will be relatively quickly and fully transmitted through to aggregate demand . |
| 22 | Just as the new physics of Einstein will have such a devastating effect upon the philosophy of the twentieth century , so it is the physics of Isaac Newton ( 1642–1727 ) that so fires the imagination of the aristocratic intelligentsia . |
| 23 | If these words , often carelessly spoken , can have such a long-term and devastating effect , think how much good we can do by encouraging our children and praising them for what they have achieved . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm surprised someone like you can have such a fixed view of someone else , i.e. me . ’ |