Example sentences of "[verb] to have a " in BNC.

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1 Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates .
2 It was claimed that the population of these desert ascetics was equal to that of the Nile towns , but religious fervour can hardly be trusted to have a head for figures .
3 So let me put that vote to the hundred , do you think every woman has a right to have a child , or to try to have a child ?
4 The total collapse of the Martian market for marioc is expected to have a major effect on the economy of Uridia . ’
5 The Ford talks are expected to have a significant impact on pay talks throughout manufacturing industry in the next six months .
6 The council argued that a landlord , particularly one such as a local authority , can not realistically be expected to have a system of inspection of all its premises and in practice is entitled to depend upon notification by its tenants .
7 ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’
8 Mr Souness is expected to have a triple bypass operation later today to relieve the narrowing or blocking of his arteries .
9 I think we 're now in the third phase , where women are expected to have a job , but at the same time to look after the family and keep themselves alluring to men .
10 By the same token the free-swimming trilobite may be expected to have a very wide geographical distribution , for oceans would be no barrier to it .
11 Known as FotoMan , the technology is expected to have a similar impact on desktop publishing as the Polaroid camera had on photography when it was first launched .
12 By contrast , those places which could be expected to have a predominantly European clientele , particularly at the hill stations , a sort of English country style was adopted to create the right atmosphere for a cool refreshing visit to the hills .
13 Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ .
14 Mexico City is expected to have a population of 31m by 2000 ( 11m in 1975 ) .
15 The THORP facility , which was the subject of the long-running Windscale public inquiry in the mid-1970s , is expected to have a life of 10 years .
16 You 're not expected to have a Ph.D .
17 Articles of this genre are expected to have a happy ending .
18 The masses can never be expected to have a clear conception of a supreme God without investing those attributes with a projection of their own personality .
19 He was a recently appointed lecturer in English literature and philosophy at London University College , and was expected to have a brilliant future .
20 The Fellow will be expected to have a strong quantitative background in Industrial or Financial Economics or similar research discipline and be capable of handling very large computerised data sets .
21 The server market is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of at least 21% up to 1997 — growing from 34% of the total number of systems shipped and 18% of manufacturers ' revenue in 1992 to 67% and 34% , respectively , by 1997 .
22 For efficiency and confidentiality , the conference is expected to have a clear set of objectives , and to be restricted to those people directly involved with the child and the family concerned , and those who need to know about or have a contribution to make to the tasks involved .
23 The Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent is also expected to have a few tricks up its sleeve for this week 's roll-out .
24 The server market where NT will be deployed is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of at least 21% up to 1997 — growing from 34% of the total number of systems shipped and 18% of manufacturers ' revenue in 1992 to 67% and 34% , respectively , by 1997 .
25 The limelight cast on NT-on-Alpha and the number of adjectives spent on it this week is expected to have a negative , if not fatal impact on the rickety ACE Initiative , whose founders , including Compaq and SCO , are perceived to be abandoning it for greener pastures , despite claims to the contrary .
26 Underlining the fact that the business was going nowhere , the transaction is not expected to have a material financial impact on either company .
27 Japan Computer Corp is to build an X-terminal plant in Niigata Prefecture , investing about $3.9m to construct a plant of 22,500 square feet , which is expected to have a production capacity of 2,000 terminals per month .
28 Second , any true scholar is expected to have a capacity to respond to — and indeed share in — these humane qualities .
29 Thus , excluding those with intervention , about 1000 out of 1600 patients would be expected to have a stenosis of more than 60% , despite an absence of clinical evidence of ischaemia and the negative exercise test .
30 The creation of a new party was also a more exciting enterprise which was expected to have a greater effect on public opinion : for the first twelve months — until the Falklands crisis arrived — the SDP gained much favourable publicity and appeared to be potentially successful .
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