Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb mod] have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life .
2 I loved the fact that I could have a four , five , six piece group that was capable of making this huge wall of sound in addition to what we did as just a jazz quartet . ’
3 I thought no more of it , and stared vacantly into space , wishing that the weather would improve so that I could have a better look at the scenery .
4 She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did .
5 During her romance she had regularly raided her friends ' wardrobes so that she would have a presentable outfit to go out in .
6 She might well say that she would have a different sense of herself as well had she grown up counting herself as made in God 's image .
7 So instead of immediately looking for the weakness in a woman , I will look for the strength and I will discount the fact that she might have a great body or be simply beautiful .
8 Mrs Hamilton said that she did not discover that she might have a legal action until 1988 .
9 She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale .
10 erm To what extent do you rely on measurements , as it were , and to what erm extent do you rely on actual observations , because it seems to me that there 's a , at least a possibility that you may have a whole sort of set of measurements that may indicate something 's going to happen , but if you actually stuck your head out of the window and looked up you could see it was actually raining instead of sunny ?
11 ‘ Just so that you 'd have a good excuse for keeping me a prisoner here ? ’
12 But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’
13 In houses for heating it 's conceivable that you could have a huge hot water store in the basement , or a store made up of round pebbles , heated by hot air , which you could then use by circulating cool air through them to produce hot air at other times .
14 This means that you can have a complete record on paper of each stage of the design process , making the program particularly suitable for exam course work .
15 It is a thing that you can have a little bit more of , or a little bit less of .
16 I think that you should have a small amount , just what you 're using on the day
17 The most important aspect of scanning is that you must have a clear picture of what you expect to see on each instrument .
18 By this I mean that we might have a complete , consistent , and unified theory of the physical interactions that would describe all possible observations .
19 This research was stimulated by a recognition that we might have a rare opportunity , through being granted privileged access to assault victims in a busy hospital accident and emergency department , to study serious assaults which may or may not have been reported to the police and , therefore , the definition of which as crimes is still open to question .
20 I hope that we shall have a useful Committee stage in which many of the points that I have made can be answered .
21 That means that we must have a set-aside system .
22 The only thing we would say is that we must have a clear vision of our formal and stylistic intentions before we begin .
23 For example , one British study ( Brody and Tarling , 1990 ) concluded that we could have a substantial effect on the crime rate if everyone convicted of an indictable offence received a mandatory 19-month prison sentence .
24 We are thinking of buying a small estate outside the city , three or four acres , so that we could have a real nice ranch-type bungalow — and keep some riding horses . ’
25 I think overall there was a definite public benefit from offering this type of information , although I would hope that we could have a longer lead in time with regards to any future campaign .
26 The House will remember that we had the effrontery to propose that we should have a property-based system founded largely on capital valuation and with legal liability falling on the householder alone .
27 It has often been argued that the House of Lords should be abolished and that we should have a unicameral system of Government .
28 The position that was presented by myself and my colleagues at the last er er er at the last last er last meeting was to indicate a higher level of fire cover within the Service that Councillor wanted and the Committees supported the view that we should have a higher level subject to further discussions of the fire of the fire .
29 A recollection of John Davies , the minister for Europe in Heath 's cabinet , indicated the mood , ‘ We were at home in Cheshire , and I said to my wife and children that we should have a nice time , because I deeply believed then that it was the last Christmas of its kind that we would enjoy . ’ ,
30 Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place .
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