Example sentences of "[noun sg] to have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I want the Association to have a powerful voice in the running of the game . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Please take the break to have a good rest , because you never know when The Marauders will be coming to visit you ’ . |
| 6 | As Hailama said , ‘ You do n't need a contest to have a contest here . ’ |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Gandhi 's tolerant attitude to religions , which will be dealt with in the following chapter , is an indication that he does not consider any religion to have a monopoly of Truth and that includes Hinduism . |
| 18 | That uncertainty , acknowledged by Watkins L.J. , should , it is submitted , have provided a powerful reason for the Court of Appeal to allow the applicant to have a judgment by the court on the unresolved points , particularly as they had been previously argued before but had been unanswered by the court . |
| 19 | Whoever was in the flat must have heard the muffled sound of the closing door and was going through into the bedroom to have a look out of the window . |
| 20 | In Herefordshire , education , health , social services and voluntary groups are working together on a Lifestyles Project which enables students leaving college to have a life of their own within the community . |
| 21 | A few of our members have prepared very good speeches which they present locally and it would be my hope that we may be in a position in the not too distant future to have a professionally prepared audio/visual promotional aide . |
| 22 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |
| 23 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 24 | It could do no harm to have a temporary truce and it would be churlish to refuse to give the advice he wanted . |
| 25 | When he set up Channel 4 , he was given a mandate to have a very significant chunk as education , which was n't his background . |
| 26 | I go down to the side of the pond to have a look round . |
| 27 | It 's their intention to have a car as close to Zoom as possible in production by 1995 . |
| 28 | It is is my intention to have a look through that and see if I can delegate any of those down to your good selves . |
| 29 | for the music industry to have a success . |
| 30 | With this in mind er , this morning I 've written to George , the trade union secretary of the Civil Engineering Conciliation Board , the negotiating machine and suggested to him that he contacts the employers to seek a further meeting to see if we can restart the talks based on doing something about the longstanding commitment by both sides of the industry to have a positive and sensible pay structure for the future this may be one way forward , one way out of the deadlock . |