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

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1 Our people will have a real and meaningful stake in their communities , lives and land .
2 The first point to make is that because all the possible histories for the universe are finite in extent , any quantity that one uses as a measure of time will have a greatest and a least value .
3 Opportunist feeders must have a rich and complex environment if they are to thrive .
4 By switching to petrol cars , the company would have a wider and more attractive choice of British and European cars .
5 If the Lady of the Hearth principle is active in a woman 's life , then it will have a pleasurable and creative quality to it .
6 Preoccupied with thoughts of her school and its organisation — she must get brochures printed and order equipment-there would be much redecoration and rearrangement of the rooms at Moorlake she would have a million and one things to do before she got this project airborne — Sara looked at him blankly .
7 She did have a thousand and one things to do , though there was n't a single one of them that could n't have waited .
8 Hence it is only in respect of private companies that problems are still likely to arise when their articles provide , as they frequently do , that ‘ the company shall have a first and paramount lien on shares , whether or not fully-paid , registered in the name of a person indebted or under any liability to the company . ’
9 We should have a good and straightforward mechanism for importing documents into our system and exporting documents from our system .
10 A person Who has plenty of stamina will have a slower and more powerful heartbeat and they will cope more easily with prolonged or heavy exertion .
11 ‘ As I have said before , I did n't have a key and , God be my witness , I knew there was something wrong .
12 Many readers will have a deep and troubled awareness that Mr Colin Hingston is the Honorary Treasurer of our respected Institute .
13 ‘ I 'll hold it back until your engagement to Doreen is announced — and then I 'll have a loud and hearty laugh . ’
14 We do n't yet have a complete and consistent theory that combines quantum mechanics and gravity .
15 The information will have a richer and broader nature , it will be distributed , and the libraries may not ‘ own it ’ , but they will have to support access to it from places other than the ‘ library building ’ , and help to maintain and preserve it .
16 They doubted whether valid measures of all of the areas of development could be devised ; they maintained that the tests used would have a distorting and trivializing effect on pupils ' learning ( 'this year 's test becomes next year 's curriculum' ) : they pointed to the possibility , notwithstanding the assurances that light sampling techniques would be deployed , that superficial comparisons would be made on the basis of inadequate evidence between areas and between schools ; and they detected in the paraphernalia of mass testing associated with the APU the most sinister intrusion of central government into the work of the schools and the spectre of state-controlled curricula .
17 The first phrase should have a distinctive and eminently memorable nature .
18 ‘ Any woman can have a confident and attractive aura if she is prepared to invest some time , energy and a little money into evolving her own personal style ’ .
19 I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively .
20 To that extent a board should independently review profit progress to date as well as carefully evaluate and then endorse strategic recommendations made by the senior executive team which will have a long-term and substantial impact on profit .
21 Effective teams must have a specific and real function , be an integral part of the organisational structure and be proactively managed as a social entity .
22 Although " commercial enterprise may have a legitimate and desirable object … that object can not claim to be the satisfaction of any of the three great national affections — the love of truth , the love of beauty , and the love of righteousness " .
23 Its conveyance of meaning is complicated , especially in religious media , but its aesthetic value may have a holistic and emotional dimension which adds a special quality .
24 Does it have a negative and disproportionately large influence on those who are not selected , especially those who do not wish to be considered for selection ?
25 ‘ You could have a Left-wing and a Right-wing Labour Party ; but there would be a tremendous tendency towards moderation .
26 One thing really is erm absolutely essential is that you do have a consistent and uniform marketing plan .
27 The pony/horse could have a stable and rugs , these items are a necessity for the highly bred horse but not essential for the hardy ponies .
28 You 'll have a like and then you could
29 Since both Greek and Turkish Cypriot political leaders accepted that a new Cyprus republic would have a federal and bizonal character , the essence of the pre-conference negotiations concerned the proportion of territory the Turkish authorities in occupied Cyprus were willing to cede to what would effectively become the Greek area in a federal republic ( early indications being that they were prepared to concede no more than 9 per cent of the occupied area ) , and precisely how many refugees could return , out of some 180,000 Greeks Cypriots who fled following the Turkish invasion .
30 ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty .
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