Example sentences of "have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cyclists should dismount and walk up all gradients greater than 1-in-17 , especially on roads which are poorly constructed and have rocky surfaces . |
| 2 | Both businesses have regional operations as well as on-site engineers , but work exclusively with large corporate customers because , Biermann said ‘ their level of spend is much higher ’ than small companies or local government . |
| 3 | The Opposition argue that other European countries have regional government and we must have it as well . |
| 4 | We should not assume that because some European countries have regional government the people there want it . |
| 5 | Bradford Northern , one of the uncertain six , will try to ruin Wigan 's championship party this afternoon but , after their 71–10 thrashing by the champions in the Silk Cut Cup semi-final two weeks ago , they have little hope of playing any other role than that of sacrificial lambs . |
| 6 | Tree-nesting species , if they are being approached by a predator , have little hope of concealing their nests . |
| 7 | Efforts to stain paper artificially to give an appearance of age have little hope of withstanding careful scrutiny . |
| 8 | Here Sam and Frodo , like Faramir , have little hope but still think of others in the future maybe ‘ laughing at grief ’ . |
| 9 | The overall effect is visually complicated and inelegant , and could only be explained by recourse to arcane ritual references , which at this distance of time we have little hope of tracing . |
| 10 | If there are orthographic paragraph divisions in the original version of this text which were made for the sake of appearance on the page , then we have little hope of identifying such divisions in any formal way . |
| 11 | ( The three staff have been admitted to hospital in a semi-comatose state and have little hope of recovery . ) |
| 12 | If the firm does shut , the workers have little hope of finding other jobs : |
| 13 | I have little patience with routine tasks such as washing up , filling in forms , etc . |
| 14 | Because I have little patience for people who waste their time on idle speculation without any evidence to support their suspicions — and now , ’ he continued inexorably , ‘ since we understand each other , I suggest you go and have your shower , get dressed and eat some breakfast . |
| 15 | My experience is that patients have little problem in finding the pattern and dosage which suits them . |
| 16 | If I want to count how many chairs there are in my college , I have little problem about deciding which of the many objects in college I am going to include in my count . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , they will need to address pupils in English , and that will call on a register of English with which they probably have little acquaintance despite their good overall common of the language . |
| 18 | These are poor in nutrients and their peaty soils have little capacity to absorb any more acid without deleterious effects . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the union is currently controlled by minority , unrepresentative , self interest groups who have little concern for the views of ordinary members and their feelings . |
| 20 | One important assumption of the modernity/postmodernity controversies is that the political left of Marxists and critical Theorists is aligned with the modernists , whereas those ( especially French-influenced poststructuralists ) who connect somehow to postmodernism are apolitical and have little concern with contemporaneous social struggles . |
| 21 | It has often been claimed that especially in large , newer urban estates , residents have little ability to control their personal environment , the state of repair of their flat or its surroundings ( Power 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Community leaders have little expectation that the new government will do anything about the inner-city areas where most blacks and Asians live . |
| 23 | They are expensive and share many of the disadvantages of hypochlorites although they are more acceptable as they have little smell or taste . |
| 24 | They are poorly paid , mainly young and female , have little chance of career progression and no incentive to remain in the profession . |
| 25 | In large leks the satellites have little chance of mating as they are driven away by the residents . |
| 26 | There is still much to discover of their even earlier history , and we hope that the crucial steps did not all take place in some site where fossils have little chance of preservation . |
| 27 | If you are catching 7lb and 8lb fish you have little chance of catching anything under 6lb at that time . |
| 28 | Fish whose eggs and fry have little chance of surviving produce much larger numbers . |
| 29 | He noted that ‘ officers of other nationalities , no matter how capable , have little chance at getting at secrets of a Sinhalese village . ’ |
| 30 | But they now have little chance of making the Anglo-Italian semi-finals . |