Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 2 | Not your fault they had to hire a bloody crane ! |
| 3 | Not long after her arrival in Scotland she had to attend a New Year meeting in Aberdeen , far to the north over mountainous country . |
| 4 | Before she could set out the cups she had to remove a large heavy book — Crockford — which occupied the centre of the table . |
| 5 | Now as you probably know this is a level nine course it 's a it 's a course on which a platform is erected for other courses as Gordon said then the the introduction to management you have to make a short presentation do n't you but it does n't concentrate just on this . |
| 6 | How then are we to explain that ( 22 ) does not mean the same as ( 22 ) ? ( 22 ) Having a child and getting married is better than getting married and having a child We have to provide a pragmatic account , along the following lines . |
| 7 | Members are also reminded that from 1 January they have to have a practising certificate . |
| 8 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 9 | ‘ It is almost certainly the case you have to do a little bit extra because you are female but you do n't have to prove you are twice as good . ’ |
| 10 | Alongside the challenges of the Social Charter and the Community Charge he has to keep a firm grip on the Government 's sponsored schemes . |
| 11 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 12 | Well think about it I mean there might be one , in which case we have to do a little bit er dancing around |
| 13 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 14 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 15 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
| 16 | Obviously , the way you sound is up to you , but it is worth deploying all the resources you have to ensure a decent quality of recording and to present the cassette in an appealing way . |
| 17 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 18 | In the event he had to have a below-the-knee amputation . |
| 19 | There are many things that I can do now , but could n't do as a young man , which contradicts the notion that in order to be a good instrumentalist you have to acquire a comprehensive technique i your teens . |
| 20 | ‘ To be good at the game you have to have a reasonable level of intelligence , ’ said Cathy Williams , a teacher from the Percy Hedley School in Newcastle which caters for children with cerebral palsy . |
| 21 | ‘ To be a manager you have to have a strong personality , and I 'm not really like that unless I 've had 23 pints . |
| 22 | If we are ever to change our habitual response to given stimuli we have to make a conscious decision to refuse to act in old automatic and unconscious patterns ; that is , to say ‘ no ’ to ingrained habits . |
| 23 | When he applied for immigration into Australia he had to undergo a routine medical examination . |
| 24 | For a start he has to find a receptive female — not always easy with animals as solitary and spread about the forest as orangs . |
| 25 | In Germany they have to pass a three-generation means test , calling for information about the incomes of the claimant , his parents and his children . |
| 26 | For the survival of a society you have to have a certain number at one extreme and , therefore , a certain number at the other extreme , for without cowards there are no VCs . |
| 27 | At the end of the road she had to make a right turn when , a few hundred yards later , she came across the most elegant four-storeyed building . |
| 28 | We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture . |
| 29 | Mind you , I ca n't blame Mary : her husband Darnley was so pitted with the pox he had to drape a white veil over his face . |
| 30 | I I 'm certainly not My Lords er un er er an unqualified admirer of all our procedures in local Government , but I do believe that before central Government is further down the road of , of erm usurping functions which are now those of local government it has to persuade a large number of people that its own performance justifies such a course and myself I do n't believe it does . |