Example sentences of "have a very " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The charter will potentially have a very large impact on small firms because it is about more regulation . ’
2 We will have a very minor role in that programme .
3 If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’
4 often , it takes months of phone calls before you have completed your ‘ hit list ’ , and I would suggest that whoever takes on this job should have a very carefree and optimistic attitude .
5 We do n't have a very high regard for the regime . ’
6 If one takes everything into account — the shifts in climate which might well remove the United States from its place as the leading ‘ food power ’ and affect the Soviet Union as well , the limited prospects for increased yields , desertification and the steady increase in the global population — it is clear that in the next century large sections of the world 's population will have a very narrow margin between them and starvation .
7 Internationally , I think Britain should have a very important role in shaping the new Europe .
8 And without the SDLP , the Assembly does not have a very bright future .
9 We do not have a very good sense of smell , and as a result we are often tactless when handling animals .
10 The disks will have a very high resolution .
11 We did have a very broad search , ’ adds Whittaker .
12 He said : ‘ I think the election result will have a very positive effect because it will restore people 's confidence .
13 Wives could have a very real part to play in this and in attending to the sick stock .
14 It was not common at that time to see a soldier at home in Britain wearing parachute wings , for despite the Parachute Regiment — a newcomer to the army 's Order of Battle — having mounted raids in France and Italy , and having taken part , with heavy casualties , in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns , airborne forces did not have a very noticeable public profile before the days of Normandy and Arnhem .
15 Jan Marsh and Trevor Loomis have found seven National Trust houses where we do have a very clear idea of how women lived and thought .
16 It is obvious that the breed clubs will have a very difficult time in the next decade .
17 The amendment failed , being opposed not just by the Government but surprisingly also by the SDP spokesman , Mr Robert MacLennan , who said that ‘ senior Ministers who have the duty to authorise interception of communications must have a very wide — in many cases , almost unlimited — discretion ’ .
18 And there were times indeed , I think , that the effect of the very strong resistance to public-expenditure cuts and then the promulgation of an alternative economic strategy , which I myself was much concerned with , did have a very considerable effect .
19 It has many similarities with the old Swedish Mountain cattle ( and indeed two bulls of that type were imported in 1949 ) and it also has an unusually high incidence of a particular chromosomal translocation which might have a very minor effect on fertility .
20 ‘ I am sorry you did not have a very good meal , ’ he said , looking at my plate .
21 The fourth case , apart from illustrating the typical problems of an adolescent self-poisoner , is also included as an example of treatment which did not have a very good outcome , probably because the therapist did not involve the patient 's parents from an early stage .
22 It should also have a very high staff to patient ratio , with at least one staff member always present , even during changeover from one shift to another .
23 Paul did n't have a very high opinion of Waafs and constantly told us that his Diedre would n't dream of joining up and that no girls looked their best in uniform .
24 There , each of the three species does have a very different and highly distinctive pattern of markings .
25 Such parental behaviour can have a very good effect on a child .
26 Most women do n't really have a very high opinion of themselves , so if you start treating them as something special they think , ‘ Oh God , sooner or later he 'll find out the truth , and then he 'll despise me . ’
27 Were such matter to find its way into the domestic blue-film market , the Board argued , it could have a very real tendency to deprave and corrupt , not just those of 16 , but of any age , who had been encouraged to view such material in private .
28 It would jump and shudder and you would have a very uncomfortable ride .
29 Living with Keith might therefore have a very different outcome .
30 Mandy did n't have a very good start in life when she was rejected by her mother only minutes after birth .
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