Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be nothing worse for those employed in any industry than to have their incomes drastically reduced for two years on the trot and then be left twirling their thumbs wondering whether at the end of the next year they will still be in business — whether they can continue to be farmers and produce the food that Britain can use . |
| 2 | Nothing could be more enslaving and therefore less worthy of the human mind than to have it chained to the mechanics of the patterns of the language rather than free to dwell on the message conveyed through the language . |
| 3 | We ventured to ask him what he was writing , and he replied that the trouble with being a publisher was that one was so absorbed in other people 's books as to have insufficient time and energy to devote to one 's own . |
| 4 | By now it will hopefully have become evident that it is more important for the drama teacher to develop questioning skills than to have an armoury of clever ideas . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's more important to be the best surfer at St Agnes on a Sunday afternoon than to have the right T-shirt . ’ |
| 6 | Try to introduce some humour into the session , as there is no better way of reducing anxiety than to have the group laughing together . |
| 7 | It must be better to be an alone child than to have a brother like Augustin . |
| 8 | There may be instances when the systematic abuse of conflict of interest situations will be tolerated on the basis that it is more efficient to permit the abuse than to have it eradicated . |
| 9 | P.C. All right , Sir , but I always thought that it was more creditable to prevent crime and keep one 's beat clean and free from nuisances or offences than to have charges or summonses of a trivial character . |
| 10 | It is small wonder that Dr Underwood finds it a ‘ little disconcerting ’ as the inference of the inquiry , as far as it has gone at present , would appear to be that it is better for a child to stay in East London sleeping irregular hours in ill ventilated shelters and eating fish and chips than to have fresh air conditions in one of our Camps with regular hours of sleep and plenty of well prepared wholesome food ( in which vegetables fresh from the garden play a large part ) forming a diet balanced in accordance with the best advice obtainable from the Board of Education and others … |
| 11 | Mr. Miller , of whom I must always retain the highest sense , both for the Knowledge I have received from his Labours , and more particularly that Friendship and Communicativeness with which he always treated me , was blessed with a more favourable Situation in the progress of his Experiments , by enjoying the kind Influence of the Sun ( the parent of Vegetation ) in so high a Degree as to have the Vine in full ripeness on the natural Wall , without the assistance of Art ; and could we all experience the same Felicity , I need not have communicated my Observations or my Countrymen wanted an other Tutor … |
| 12 | It is , indeed , a great deal easier to point out the irrelevance of much of what is happening at the moment than to have confidence in any particular alternative . |
| 13 | And what nicer way to round off the evening than to have a quiet nightcap on the terrace with new-found friends , or take a gentle moonlit stroll along the beach . |
| 14 | In a busy life , it is easier to avoid embarrassment than to have to extricate oneself from it . |
| 15 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 16 | Simultaneously , Jack Wood , soon to be returned unopposed in the forthcoming municipal election , told the West Ham Trades Council that ‘ he was more delighted to have a place on ( the ) united Labour Party platform than to have a seat on the council ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 17 | Not that she read it ; it was just easier to bury her face in its glossy pages than to have to endure Nicolo 's stony-faced silence . |
| 18 | Now , when you are entering into a contract , and I wonder if you could send this to the to the chairman er your letter er of erm contract because to have a contract which can be varied in its cost always upwards is a very dangerous contract and I would interested to see the contract that is supplied which does not control price . |
| 19 | I replied that if Seius Oceanus ( to whom the estate ought to be made over when he reached the age of sixteen , under trust under the will of Seius Saturninus by the trustee-heir Valerius Maximus ) died before he completed the set period of time , the estate under trust belongs to the person to whom the rest of his property will belong , since the trust vested during his lifetime , that is if by postponing the time for payment the testator would seem rather to have granted the trustee-heir custody than to have imposed an uncertain term on the trust . |
| 20 | She says many things can go wrong at birth and it 's better to find a new mother for a lamb than to have to hand rear it . |
| 21 | His neat , Astaire-like side-step to the road where he would rather die under a shining new Merc than to have to go too close to a cripple . |
| 22 | As directors of horror movies know so well , there is no better way to scare their audience than to have some unidentified object flash suddenly on to the screen , very close to the hero 's face . |
| 23 | Works traditionally ascribed to the masters but considered by de Groot to be incorrect , have been omitted , for as the author stated : ‘ it is less unpleasant for the private collector to have his pictures passed over in silence than to have them mentioned and definitely described as false ’ . |
| 24 | Parliament has introduced taxation of this ‘ perk ’ but upon a gradually increasing scale — still short of the true value of the use of the car — no doubt because to have introduced it at its full value would have been seen as an unfair and unacceptable increase in the burden of taxation in one year on those who enjoyed the ‘ perk ’ and of course the future of the British motor industry would be taken into account . |
| 25 | 3.9.2 publications by others , visual advertising and statements which portray its Trade Marks and all products or product groups in such a way as to have a likelihood or depreciating the good will in the Trade Marks and |
| 26 | The judgment appeared to redefine the legal relationship between mother and foetus in such a way as to have important future implications both for the behaviour of pregnant women and for the issue of abortion . |
| 27 | Most of the drums only showed the edges of labels , however , being turned at such an angle as to have the label obscured . |
| 28 | Within the Western world the notion that land can be conceived of as property is so deeply embedded an ideology as to have become " self-evident " . |
| 29 | ‘ It was a little alarming ’ , I wrote , ‘ to think there was anyone so far above human weakness as to have none . |
| 30 | An actual baby had awakened the baby inside herself ; she wanted less to be a mother than to have a baby , so that by feeding him she could in some way nourish herself . |