Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since its establishment in 1945 the College has had a strong commitment to research aimed at improving management and the development of managers . |
| 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 | I am sure that Arcic has had a new encouragement to continue . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Since then , the Government has had a statutory responsibility to increase benefits only in line with prices . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Today 's world-class athlete no longer needs to have a full-time job to support his or her athletics . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | More and more , ever since Irangate , Iran seemed to have a crucial role to play in the release of American and French hostages . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I have already mentioned that right-handed pilots seem to have a natural tendency to turn left . |
| 19 | Some people like to have a sharp canter to warm up for the steeplechase , I prefer not to . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 22 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 23 | If she had said no he would have had a long way to jump . |
| 24 | This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube . |
| 25 | It may not be a good reason to us , but they must have had a good reason to do it , either family-wise or tension-wise , or because of life in general . |
| 26 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 27 | ‘ The raiders must have had a large vehicle to transport the cattle which are valued at more than £1,000 each , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 28 | You do n't have to have a personal coach to put together a successful training schedule . |
| 29 | You do n't have to have a new baby to need someone to talk to and if that is the case , I can still find you a sympathetic ear . |
| 30 | In the end , they came to the decision that whichever one of them saw Tamar first , would try to have a private word to tell her of Davis 's presence , and then see how she reacted . |