Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nutritionists and doctors agree that the food we eat has an enormous amount to do with the way we look and feel . |
| 2 | Since its establishment in 1945 the College has had a strong commitment to research aimed at improving management and the development of managers . |
| 3 | Since its establishment in 1945 the College has had a strong commitment to research aimed at improving management and the development of managers . |
| 4 | ALBSU has had a wider brief to facilitate literacy and numeracy among the native and non- native speakers of English . |
| 5 | I am sure that Arcic has had a new encouragement to continue . ’ |
| 6 | Brian Howes , President of Kimberly-Clark 's European service and industrial sector said : ‘ The board was impressed by our partnership with the local community which has had a great deal to do with the success of our North Wales operations in establishing an award winning site of manufacturing excellence . ’ |
| 7 | Since then , the Government has had a statutory responsibility to increase benefits only in line with prices . |
| 8 | And to my recollection , no one for whom Prost has ever driven has had a bad word to say about him , save at the very end of Prost 's career with Renault , when other factors that had nothing to do with driving intruded . |
| 9 | Additionally , Rule 5 — 30(2) requires that in respect of a warrant or derivative , before a firm : ( a ) recommends a transaction ; ( b ) arranges or executes a transaction ( even if it has not recommended it ) ; or ( c ) acts as a discretionary manager ; it must have sent the private customer a Warrants or Derivatives Risk Warning Notice and obtained a copy signed by the customer so that the firm is satisfied that the customer has had a proper opportunity to consider its terms . |
| 10 | Arrange to visit after the programme has had a few weeks to run . |
| 11 | Britain has had an unrivalled opportunity to do this in the post-war new towns , where the circumstances permitted experimentation with all manner of innovative layouts . |
| 12 | He has had an inconsistent side to handle for much of the summer . |
| 13 | Over the years The Trades House has had an important role to play in promoting trade and industry in the city . |
| 14 | Releasing her , he said , ‘ For someone who 's supposedly about to breathe her last , you appear to have an awful lot to say for yourself . |
| 15 | As can be seen , the bond equivalent yield is always less than the simple equivalent yield because with the bond the first coupon payment can be reinvested , whereas this possibility is not available for a discount security , which therefore has to have a higher yield to compensate . |
| 16 | Today 's world-class athlete no longer needs to have a full-time job to support his or her athletics . |
| 17 | It is not clear how this issue could be resolved , other than by stipulation , and hence rather than attempt to reach a conclusion we will proceed to the more fundamental question of whether the shareholders should , in the first place , be considered to have a moral right to decide how companies should be run in virtue of their ownership of corporate property . |
| 18 | Moreover there were certain branches of the governmental machine and certain aspects of policy on which the king was considered to have a special right to make his views heard . |
| 19 | This usually all works well with a large one-off competition , but if you have organised a series of regional newspaper competitions , for example , you will need to have a foolproof system to ensure that winners receive their prizes shortly after winning and you do not have irate editors ringing up saying that their readers are growing angry at the lack of delivery . |
| 20 | In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses . |
| 21 | More and more , ever since Irangate , Iran seemed to have a crucial role to play in the release of American and French hostages . |
| 22 | People , their understandings of their circumstances and their struggles to force collective facilities out of the state , were again under-conceptualised and , indeed , even seemed to have a small role to play . |
| 23 | Many organisations seemed to have an in-built reluctance to defend their actions or even to provide a constructive and forceful image . |
| 24 | They would also like to have an independent body to evaluate European science and special one-year grants to help reintegrate post-doctoral students returning to their country of origin after working elsewhere in Europe . |
| 25 | You 've got to have a sharp brain to work out the tactics and you 've got to have a very good technique , so it 's a demanding sport . |
| 26 | If I 'd have gone to the to the social services or er the D H S S and says to them , my daughter 's got to have a new uniform to go to school with because her self respect is gon na suffer if she does n't , they would n't have given be nothing . |
| 27 | I ca n't understand it , they 've got to have a decent grade to go to university , but they seem to think that they can get in on D's and E's , if he gets D's and E's , he 's not going anywhere , except to work |
| 28 | I have already mentioned that right-handed pilots seem to have a natural tendency to turn left . |
| 29 | Some people like to have a sharp canter to warm up for the steeplechase , I prefer not to . |
| 30 | That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months . |