Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad . |
| 2 | In a flash all has disappeared ’ , as the narrator realizes it was only a vision of his youth , now past ( ex.4 ) . |
| 3 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |
| 4 | Anyone nominated for a partnership now has to go through a two-day assessment and take part in simulated exercises that test the ability to display initiative in seeking new business . |
| 5 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 6 | Because it is an interlocutory judgement it is usually heard before a master of the High Court , and a defendant only has to show a good arguable case for the plaintiff 's application to fail . |
| 7 | Tertiary , prevention … would aim at avoiding the worst consequences of a child actually having to spend long periods in substitute care . |
| 8 | ‘ Having a home again has changed my life . |
| 9 | Although we 'd been left pretty much to our own devices in the last months in the Pit , the year and a half underground had become increasingly depressing . |
| 10 | She was a fool not to have foreseen the outcome . |
| 11 | A pen-plotter normally has built-in firmware that will automatically join two points with a straight line ; the command is usually JOIN ( X1 , Y1 , X2 , Y2 ) . |
| 12 | Some small businesses may also benefit from that option since the Bill abolished the minimum threshold of rateable value which a business previously had to meet to be eligible for a metered supply . |
| 13 | The black eyes that had been sparkling with good humour a moment before had become hard , almost angry . |
| 14 | Then Dotty Blundell , who a moment before had drooped under the weight of her leopard-skin coat , flung back her shoulders and lowering her chin gave a peek-a-boo smile . |
| 15 | If a leader constantly has to threaten individuals , it is unlikely that those individuals will come to share the vision of the leader . |
| 16 | The murder of a Finnish student a decade ago has remained unsolved despite the use of revolutionary techniques to identify her . |
| 17 | More damning evidence came from Polly , who said she had seen her mother in Cardiff about a year previously with three children , and a day later had seen her without any . |
| 18 | More importantly , the planning of a mosaic frequently had to accommodate fountains or impluvia . |
| 19 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 20 | A policeman then had to bring the traffic in all three lanes to a standstill while the motorist and his passenger crossed to safety . |
| 21 | A king therefore had to keep control of his own : he must inhibit opposition within the realm , and exile the faithless , but be sufficiently fair in his distribution of patronage to forestall the defection of valued supporters to other realms . |
| 22 | two two erm thingies two Jaffa Cakes two ba box of Jaffa Cakes and Mini Cheddars then I 'll have to wait a minute please have to wait again , and then a Coke er erm er er er erm doo doo . |
| 23 | The discovery well a mile away had tested at only 9.7 million cu ft/day ( 275 thousand cu m/day ) , and this result proved to be significantly higher than most later discoveries . |
| 24 | This afternoon , doctors at a Bristol hospital disclosed that a baby there had died after the mother used a pool during the first stage of labour . |
| 25 | A student nowadays has to graft for three years on a pittance of a grant , begging the government for a loan and at the same time being excluded from any welfare benefits . |
| 26 | Rumour and the recent closure of a similar sanctuary in Hereford a week ago has given rise to closure fears . |
| 27 | Thus up to the end of World War II ( when the public sector marriage bar was abolished and young women retained paid jobs on marriage ) , in order to qualify for an occupational pension in old age derived from her own earnings a woman usually had to remain unmarried . |
| 28 | But , he said yesterday , the love and understanding of a 26-year-old woman he met less than a month ago has convinced him he should remain living life as a man . |
| 29 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward who discharged himself from hospital a month ago has had the plaster removed from his shattered limbs . |
| 30 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |