Example sentences of "[noun sg] to have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Police have twice failed to present him in Lilongue 's High Court — the first time to the surprise even of the prosecution — and have defied an order for his wife and lawyer to have access .
2 Menachem Begin used to come here during the 1948 battles to this house , and he came up to see us three or four times during the fighting to have coffee and biscuits with us .
3 21 In the past it has been standard practice to have exhibitions open only during normal office hours .
4 The first example is the view that it is good primary practice to have children working in groups .
5 Erm , from there I 've erm , worked for four years , I 've taken erm , a break to have children .
6 Thus the reasons put forward for the present rule are first , that it preserves the constitutional proprieties leaving Parliament to legislate in words and the courts ( not Parliamentary speakers ) , to construe the meaning of the words finally enacted ; second , the practical difficulty of the expense of researching Parliamentary material which would arise if the material could be looked at ; third , the need for the citizen to have access to a known defined text which regulates his legal rights ; fourth , the improbability of finding helpful guidance from Hansard .
7 It is quite normal for an interview to have periods of awkwardness , especially when problem questions are being discussed .
8 I also get all sorts of people , from average riders wanting a family horse to have fun with to those whose sights are fixed at the very top .
9 The duty on an applicant to have recourse to ‘ effective and adequate ’ remedies extends to testing whether a possible avenue of redress will in fact operate to provide a remedy in his case .
10 No one expects a practitioner to have time for much theoretical musing or for large empirical studies .
11 Iraq is denying that the move is a bid to have sanctions lifted .
12 Businessman Rachh Paul Bedi 's bid to have BT boss Iain Vallance jailed for illegally cutting of his phone is a good idea .
13 Rebel Barnet shareholders are set to ask the Department of Trade and Industry to investigate the club 's finances in a bid to have Flashman kicked out of Underhill .
14 Growing domestic concern about the prospect of a military offensive was evident by the end of November , despite the failure of a bid to have Congress specially recalled for a full debate ; the Senate armed services committee opened hearings on the administration 's management of the Gulf crisis on Nov. 27 .
15 BRITISH officials lost their bid to have Ann Williams reinstated for the 1500m semi-finals after her controversial heat yesterday .
16 ‘ They asked to be on it and it 's not going to do us any harm to have Slash and Ozzy on the new album , is it ?
17 Second , some writers ( mainly democratic elitist ) emphasize instead that political leaders can control permanent administrators , and stress the unavoidable administrative imperative to have crisis decisions handled by an elected core executive .
18 It is the coach 's intention to have experience at the core of his team , bearing in mind the exceptional nature of the opposition , but Roxburgh did not rule out the possibility of a new arrival suddenly thrusting himself into consideration for one of Scotland 's remaining World Cup qualifying ties on the strength of a display against the Germans .
19 The victim was already distressed after being raped by the other man when D announced his intention to have sex with her .
20 I think if a girl got into bed with you er no clothes , I think the intention to have sex is very clear .
21 The ability of employees outside the Personnel Department to have sight of even the least confidential items of personnel documentation was , at the very minimum , to be retained at the same level as the manual system .
22 One Sunday , I went to Queen 's Club to have luncheon with Monsieur Alain Boucheron the Chairman of the famous jewellers , in a private luncheon room to see the finals of the Stella Artois Grass Court Championships .
23 A controversial attempt to have part of Carnmoney Hill re-zoned to allow homes to be built has provoked a storm of protest from local people .
24 Freemantle 's efforts toward a subscription were coupled with an attempt to have Leapor 's play produced .
25 Last week they went to the Court of Session in an unsuccessful attempt to have Thursday 's meeting blocked .
26 An attempt to have Parkin suspended from the party was unsuccessful .
27 It was a pleasure to have Miss Kay Evans with us for part of the afternoon session .
28 I reckon it would benefit everyone , especially English football to have schemes where young players could get loaned for a season at a time .
29 Yet it may be argued that part of the process was a search for the open sea which France had been denied until the early years of the thirteenth century , and that the desire to win control of the peripheral duchies of Aquitaine , Brittany and Normandy was but an aspect of a wider policy which included an ambition to have access to , and control of , the ports on the Atlantic , Mediterranean and Channel coasts for military as well as for commercial reasons .
30 Will the Minister concede that the proposal in the Asylum Bill removes the right of people seeking political asylum to have access to green form advice ?
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