Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 2 | Thus Nutbeam et al are disappointed that two well tried instruments for preventing children from smoking failed to have any effect , especially when the schemes worked elsewhere . |
| 3 | Those with high ROI tend to experience falls in ROI and those with low ROI tend to have increases , taken across the whole population . |
| 4 | His counsel sought to have the admissions excluded under PACE. , ss.76(2) ( b ) , and 78 . |
| 5 | At trial , his counsel sought to have the statement excluded because P had not been cautioned again before writing it , which was a breach of the Code . |
| 6 | There are many functions that are common to 99% of all spreadsheet applications , in much the same sort of way that a word processor has to have certain abilities . |
| 7 | Those who win money on the horses at Kirkby Lonsdale races in Cumbria can quickly sober up if they wander down from the racecourse to see how their rates have been spent on the adjacent reaches of the river Lune , where the recently cemented banks are dramatically caving in , and attempts at bank protection appear to have made matters worse . |
| 8 | Meisel identifies three functional characteristics which-Mosca 's elite has to have — group consciousness . |
| 9 | Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) . |
| 10 | One agent suggested today that the QPR striker stands to have £500,000 added to his price tag at a stroke if he enjoys a successful debut not to mention the guaranteed lucrative spin-off of joining the England players ' pool . |
| 11 | Anyone standing for election at local government level has to have an election agent . |
| 12 | Forty of the escapees were killed by local hunters but the remainder appear to have survived by hiding in inaccessible rocky areas and adapted to the local terrain , which is similar to their natural habitat in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 13 | The Long Parliament tried to have him restored in 1641–2 , but without effect , and from 1644 onwards Sir Edmond Prideaux [ q.v. ] , later attorney-general under the Commonwealth , was somewhat precariously ensconced as postmaster-general . |
| 14 | ( b ) Taking instructions As noted above , the drafter needs to have a clear understanding of the nature of the client 's business , in order to ensure that the terms meet the needs of the client 's business , taking account of its products , customers and problems . |
| 15 | Viewed from the perspective of the late-1980's , when archaic ideological attitudes and inflexible organisational structures have at one level unquestionably arrested the originally dynamic social development of the Soviet experiment , and at another level appear to have condemned the PCF to a peripheral status , if not imminent extinction , this seems strange . |
| 16 | It is useful to bear in mind the sharp distinction between those artefacts which , to use , the user needs to have to hand , and those which can be used remotely . |
| 17 | The GP needs to have information if he is going to look after the patient properly : he needs to know what has happened during the infarct , how severe it was , what evidence there was of heart failure , and whether the angina recurred . |
| 18 | Primarily the computer has to have a graphics capability , preferably monochrome and as high a resolution as possible . |
| 19 | Yeah I think any anything that 's on the computer needs to have the input prepared beforehand . |
| 20 | The condom is the most widely used form of contraception ( 41% ) , the pill is used by the partner of 31% of our sample , while such devices as the coil and diaphragm appear to have lost whatever popularity they once enjoyed . |
| 21 | The position taken by the protestant churches , and the newspaper articles and television debates which preceded the referendum appear to have affected public opinion . |
| 22 | In June Austrian police had seized weapons-grade uranium reported to have been smuggled from the former Soviet Union [ see p. 38987 ] . |
| 23 | On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers . |
| 24 | If the family has decided on cremation , the undertaker will need a further form , so this decision needs to have been made prior to the visit to the Registrar . |
| 25 | The flash has to have a manual override to be useful , as it will serve only to tell the operator when a photograph has been taken . |
| 26 | Most power converters are required to provide transformer isolation between input and output , and the isolated version of the Cuk converter has to have energy coupling capacitors on all its windings , so that they then have to be provided as energy coupling devices plus the transformer . |
| 27 | The dream of the New Look has to have taken place during or after the summer of 1950 , because in it I wore one of my two summer dresses , one of green and one of blue gingham , that were made that year and that lasted me , with letting down , until I went to school . |
| 28 | The field needs to have a good supply of water . |
| 29 | The rival claims of the two departments never became a contentious matter among the ‘ boy labour ’ group of reformers , though the majority appear to have favoured the Board of Trade . |
| 30 | While some dragons may have been comets , or indeed auroras , the majority appear to have been meteoric fireballs . |