Example sentences of "have [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Incidentally , that person must have rather a big mouth , because your shameful little secret 's public knowledge there now . ’
2 ‘ Yes , I did have rather a bad night . ’
3 From examining the shapes of these graphs it would appear that increasing the size of the corpus would have only a small effect on the percentage of bigram transitions found .
4 If the vehicle for the institutional investors is a limited partnership , it is likely each underlying investor will have only a small share of Newco , which will be insufficient to make Newco its 51% subsidiary .
5 Owing to a circular symmetry the electric field will have only a radical component , independent of the azimuth angle .
6 Each of us can have only a tiny impact on creating a kinder , finer world .
7 Advice from the specialist agencies should be taken , because every census count will have only a partial alignment with the target audience being sought .
8 But the results are so late in arriving that they will have only a limited influence on national policies for coronary prevention .
9 A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life .
10 While , for the reasons just explored , raising the standard of care may have only a limited impact on the courts ' willingness to categorise a decision as negligent rather than as a mere ‘ error of judgment ’ , it may still nevertheless lead to the courts playing a greater role as monitors of business efficiency .
11 The first was that natural justice could have only a limited application in the context of the wider duties or discretion imposed upon a minister ; unfortunately the courts had applied those limited notions of natural justice to other areas where the constraints were unnecessary .
12 First , is this treatment , when successful , likely to reduce the effects of the disease , or does it have only a palliative effect , in that side effects are avoided from powerful drugs that would otherwise have to be used ?
13 If corporations merely promoted or recruited new personnel to replace the faint-hearted or imprisoned , then frightening and removing executives to prison may have only a minimal impact on corporate crime .
14 He pointed out that modifying the credit acquisition policies might have only a minimal effect , since most of the losses were from cases accepted some time ago .
15 Among political theorists it is widely accepted that , to sustain a democracy , participation and active citizenship should have only a minimal role .
16 A confidential Department of Employment memo states , the scheme will have only a minimal training element .
17 Any busy person will recall that he has a particular engagement but will have only a sparse internal record of when this commitment will arise , hence the importance of a diary .
18 By relying on circular symmetry we can further claim that the electric field will have only a radial component which means that
19 Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives .
20 So the forces that they carry will have only a short range .
21 how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use
22 because they might have only a few , whereas the others have got thousands on them .
23 However , since new additions comprise under one per cent of the total stock each year , they will have only a trivial effect on the distribution of housing types in the near future ( it should be noted that conversions of dwellings are not included in the figures given above ) .
24 Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman have a serious look at capital allowances , especially for plant and machinery , which should not have only a 25 per cent .
25 The cost of the bid to Tiphook is put at £2million , which it says will have only a minor impact on full year results .
26 When we recalculated the activity of Ca 2 + at the same pH ( pH 7.7 ) using the formula for changes in PCO 2 , however , the difference between the two groups was still apparent , indicating that the difference in pH may have only a minor influence on the observed difference in the Ca 2 + activity when the pH changes are caused by variations in pCO 2 ( recalculating the actual activity in gall bladder bile from patients with gall stone disease and controls to a pH 7.7 gives an activity of 0.407 and 0.315 mmol/kg , respectively ) ( Fig 1 ) .
27 Although the Foreign Office may say that the mooted treaty on political union would have only a marginal impact on the EC , it would clearly diminish national sovereignty .
28 This may have only a marginal effect on the owners of a semi , but in blocks of flats contributions have to be made to a maintenance fund .
29 For one thing , as it applies only to areas of new or rehabilitated housing , it can have only a marginal impact on overall levels of safety in all residential areas , at least for the foreseeable future .
30 But it pointed out that the delays would have only a marginal impact on the total UK production profile and would help to sustain the mid-1990s production plateau beyond the turn of the century .
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