Example sentences of "[noun] to have a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As in the previous example , this generalization then permits the approaching waves to have a continuous wave front for appropriate values of k and a . |
| 2 | It is sensible personnel practice to have a standard letter available to employees which they can use to notify you of their situation and intentions . |
| 3 | In this passage J. S. Mill resolutely turns his back on allowing sensations to have a universal character . |
| 4 | Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments . |
| 5 | The existence of a partnership has significant legal consequences , and it is best practice for the members of any partnership to have a written agreement , drafted by a lawyer . |
| 6 | ‘ I want the Association to have a powerful voice in the running of the game . |
| 7 | ‘ Fascism ’ , he said , ‘ is not a creed for the smug mice who choose to emerge from under Bloomsbury tea-cosies to have a nibble at it . ’ |
| 8 | North America became the first continent to have a rail line from coast to coast when the Central Pacific met the Union Pacific in May 1869 . |
| 9 | Please take the break to have a good rest , because you never know when The Marauders will be coming to visit you ’ . |
| 10 | It is therefore a legal necessity for almost all goat-keepers to have a copy of the MAFF Code of Welfare of Goats . |
| 11 | As more graduates enter primary teaching , so I believe it will become easier for schools to have a common purpose and to recognize this in a jointly worked-out curriculum , with more communication and actual cross-over from one part of the system to the other . |
| 12 | Future developments in the use of microcomputers including applications such as the use of expert systems , compact and video disks , electronic publishing and interactive video will be discussed in Chapter 10 and allow those starting to use microcomputers in schools to have a wider view of potential applications . |
| 13 | As Hailama said , ‘ You do n't need a contest to have a contest here . ’ |
| 14 | Mansell Mania … wo n't harm you in fact in these days of depression and recession … a record breaking world champion is a bit of a tonic … its good to have a Brit on top … |
| 15 | In Britain it is easy to forget that , while we may have the publicly available electoral register , we are almost alone in Europe in not requiring each citizen to have a formally registered address , and to notify changes of address to the police . |
| 16 | Retailing analysts in the City believe Kingfisher will have to pay far more than the 120p a share now on offer for Dixons to have a realistic chance of winning its cash bid . |
| 17 | It helps a great deal to have a large number of clear , separate concepts , ideas that can quickly and easily be applied to the sometimes confusing variety of animal actions we observe when we sit down to watch other species . |
| 18 | The answer which is usually proffered is a variant of the ‘ snapshot ’ argument : the stock of capital is so large in comparison with variations in the relevant flows that it would take a timespan considerably longer than the Keynesian short run for variations in the rate of net investment to have a significant impact on the size of the stock of capital . |
| 19 | It expresses one 's readiness to have a certain attitude to the person named by ‘ you ’ if he acts in a certain way , and in a broad sense this readiness is itself an attitude . |
| 20 | I pointed Armstrong westwards but pulled over near a post office and a couple of shops to have a think . |
| 21 | It only remained then , in this tight little half-hour programme , for David Attenborough to bring us up to date on the mountain gorillas of Rwanda — they are mainly alive and moderately well but not thanks to poachers — and for Mr Soper to have a fleeting swipe at the conservation intentions of the government , and it was all over . |
| 22 | Somehow ‘ Carlsson ’ does n't quite cut the mustard like Porsche 's ‘ Carrera ’ , but these are the first of the company 's production-line cars to have a name — like BMWs , they have always had numbers — and as the man at Saab said , at least you can pronounce it . |
| 23 | The feeling persisted and suddenly , although he knew he was being ridiculous , he felt he had to take a ride into Mansfield to have a look at the site where the old Empire Theatre had once stood . |
| 24 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 25 | The principle behind the act is that marriage should be regarded as a partnership which is dissolved on divorce allowing both parties to have a ‘ clean break ’ and go their separate ways . |
| 26 | Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs . |
| 27 | I 'm very concerned that if we do n't get some urgent remedial action to do this brickwork , that we 're gong to have a major problem down there . |
| 28 | True to historical precedent , it required a white rock musician to have a hit with a black man 's song — in this case Eric Clapton with ‘ I Shot the Sheriff ’ — before the breakthrough could occur ; but at length Bob Marley became the first reggae superstar . |
| 29 | His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look . |
| 30 | This counterintuitive result requires the differential surface brightness of the two halves of an obliquely oriented bar to show a sign reversal near the centre , and the photometrically determined near side to have a larger angular thickness . |