Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since wars involve others than those who face battle , that overwhelming majority who may prefer to have nothing at all to do with war , they can not , and should not , be omitted from any modern consideration of the subject . |
| 2 | We do , however , appreciate that being creatures of habit , many people may prefer to have a similar breakfast each day , for the sake of speed and perhaps taste also . |
| 3 | Some people who have difficulty in paying for their water may prefer to have prepayment meters fitted . |
| 4 | If you work regularly for one agency you may want to have your position and experience reviewed from time to time , so that future work you undertake can be constructive and part of bona fide career development . |
| 5 | Aside from running their hands over the dog 's body and legs , checking its conformation , judges may want to have a clear view of the dog 's mouth , to check , for example , that the jaws are neither under or overshot , according to the breed standard . |
| 6 | The acquirer may want to have conduct of the collection of those debts , so that the seller does not use an unduly heavy-handed approach and damage the goodwill of the business after sale . |
| 7 | John Watkins University Press I think there 's a copy in the library erm , you may want to have a little look at it , but so what we 're going do is we incorporate both these two hypothesis into a model supply response okay . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the access to your front door is difficult , perhaps with steps , you may need to have a ramp made , if the patient is still in a wheelchair . |
| 10 | He may need to have the lump removed . |
| 11 | A generous interpretation aids both plaintiffs ( who may need to have service effected before proceeding to judgment ) and defendants ( who can benefit from knowledge of pending proceedings ) ; and the state of destination does not commit itself to recognise any judgment the plaintiff may ultimately obtain , for service facilitates proceedings and does not authenticate them . |
| 12 | Those with dairy goats may need to have some goats kidding in the autumn to obtain good supplies of milk in winter . |
| 13 | And if your son is n't settling down then we may need to have another look at him , and run some tests on him . |
| 14 | Faced with a zero price a consumer may opt to have the service just because it is free , while not really feeling very strongly about it one way or the other . |
| 15 | But why he seems to think we should want to have anything to do with him and his fancy talk — that 's more than I can imagine . |
| 16 | An industrial manager at any level should endeavour to have a clear view of the future , and the role that he would like his business to play in that future . |
| 17 | If it is unnecessarily bureaucratic the engineer should seek to have the systems modified so that they contribute more cost effectively to improved quality . |
| 18 | Taxpayers should seek to have income if at all possible assessed under TA 1988 , Case III or Cases IV and V rather than Case VI because in the former Cases the assessment is on the preceding year basis . |
| 19 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |
| 20 | By a process of mutual choice , referral back and elimination a number of names is arrived at of individuals who by reputation are assumed by those who should know to have power in the community . |
| 21 | What we must do to have good skin is to cleanse , tone , and moisturize . |
| 22 | Iraq is a grim model of what kind of thing the next secretary-general should expect to have thrown at him . |
| 23 | ‘ Leicester is a city in which we should expect to have a good general bookshop , and we shall be looking for a bigger and better site in the city . ’ |
| 24 | what sort of penetration we should expect to have . |
| 25 | To simulate reality the moving object must appear to have depth , but not be transparent . |
| 26 | If you are attempting to influence people whom you do not know , you must appear to have integrity and credibility . |
| 27 | None of us must expect to have what we like all the time , whether musically or in any other way , and personal Sacrifice is pad of the Christian way . |
| 28 | Letters should appear to have been typed individually . |
| 29 | Occasionally , when he came back to Cambridge in later years , and especially when he came back to help the university elect another professor of divinity , he would be nostalgic , and say , ‘ I should like to have another go at being regius professor , . |
| 30 | Yes , please ’ — to the hovering waitress — ‘ we should like to have our bill . ’ |