Example sentences of "have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Do you have a black skirt ? |
| 32 | Moreover , these potential thoughts do not just lie there like strands of spaghetti on a plate : each must have a certain kind of relation to the others . |
| 33 | Snow does have a certain corpuscular arrangement , which fits it to produce ideas of coldness and of whiteness in us ; but just as there is nothing in fire resembling our idea of pain , so there need be nothing in snow resembling the whiteness and coldness it appears to have . |
| 34 | The piece must not be too heavy but it must have a certain weight to it . |
| 35 | Yet this same student may be quite good at translating from French to English or the other way round and may have a certain knowledge of the history of French literature and the critical points to be made about specified French texts . |
| 36 | It 's still disturbing but it does have a certain grandeur . |
| 37 | ‘ Viz will only have a certain life before everyone starts to become bored by it . |
| 38 | You may not be putting together the salad on your plate or cooking your main course in the kitchen , but you do have a certain control over what goes onto your plate . |
| 39 | It is important to recognise that this criticism does have a certain validity . |
| 40 | And indeed , linking these three proposals did have a certain logic . |
| 41 | I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended . |
| 42 | The data so produced may be of use to parsing systems , whenever it becomes necessary to know whether a noun must have a certain feature , not merely that it may have it . |
| 43 | Despite being an ignoramus , the dealer who lasted even a matter of weeks would have a certain animal intelligence , as well as the true smooth operator 's knack of twisting information to support the argument his firm insisted he presented . |
| 44 | The first is that we do not have a certain general idea , since often we do not have certain specific ideas . |
| 45 | Small-scale production may have a certain place within a socialist economy but as a general alternative to modern large-scale industry it is merely utopian . |
| 46 | And therefore this estate is frequently called a term , terminus , because its duration or continuance is bounded , limited and determined : for every such estate must have a certain beginning , and certain end . |
| 47 | They may feel that a certain kind of relationship between the legislature and the executive is important ; or that the judicature should have a certain guaranteed degree of independence of the legislature and executive . |
| 48 | ‘ I do have a certain amount of work to do , ’ Alice said , ‘ but I can fit in with your plans , Harry . |
| 49 | While command line interpreters do have a certain fascination and instill a tremendous discipline on the user they could hardly be described as state of the art . |
| 50 | ‘ The known brands must have a certain proportion of meat in them , but I do n't know what sort . |
| 51 | But if you murdered Mills it would have a certain logic , would n't it ? ’ |
| 52 | He will have a certain power and extensive influence , and his Queen will fall into a more supporting role . |
| 53 | But I did have a certain regard for Peter Ennalls , if you can remember him . " |
| 54 | Oh , André was always a hit with the girls , and he did have a certain effeminate appeal and a wonderful way with words , but he lacked Piers 's vitality , the vibrant sexuality that seemed to smoulder away inside him . |
| 55 | If a manufacturer can have a certain conveniency of sending his goods by water carriage within four miles of his own home , surely that is sufficient , and profit enough , considering that other people must thrive as well as himself ; and a proportion of profit to each trade should be the biasing and leading policy of this nation . |
| 56 | Does the activity have a certain measure of substance , as measured by quarterly or annual value of turnover ? |
| 57 | ‘ Well , the club does have a certain reputation for frankness in sexual matters , sir . |
| 58 | ‘ There is one small detail I have omitted to tell you , and that I feel will have a certain bearing on the judge 's ruling . ’ |
| 59 | You , you would go , you would have a certain amount of information already in that |
| 60 | Rice says : ‘ It 's unfair to say to a small black voluntary group with little finance that it should have a certain number of staff ; many are new to developing management committees and constitutions . |