Example sentences of "[verb] to have a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’
2 Students will be expected to have a thorough knowledge of them for their first grading exam .
3 In order to analyse possible variations in expression , we studied whole blood from a patient with pheochromocytoma , who was expected to have a high level of expression of this gene , obtaining a value four times higher than those from normal subjects ( data submitted but not shown ) .
4 The masses can never be expected to have a clear conception of a supreme God without investing those attributes with a projection of their own personality .
5 For efficiency and confidentiality , the conference is expected to have a clear set of objectives , and to be restricted to those people directly involved with the child and the family concerned , and those who need to know about or have a contribution to make to the tasks involved .
6 The TW68 is designed to have a maximum range of 1,000 miles while carrying up to 14 passengers .
7 The next level are in fact magistrates , who appear to have a similar area of responsibility to our Gown Court judges .
8 And I 'm sorry we appear to have a little bit of a problem with that tape , we have the wrong tape .
9 Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people .
10 If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it .
11 This means that the ‘ brain' of the synth has to have a certain amount of waveform information from the guitar before it can determine an actual pitch and synthesise that information accordingly .
12 The general format and size of advertisements has been specified by National Marketing and must be adhered to ; it includes the KPMG logo at both top and bottom of the details and therefore the advertisement has to have a minimum size of 2 columns wide and 8 cm deep .
13 In case anyone wants to have a tidy note of the way consonants are classified , there are many books which will give you details .
14 like before the break when you want to have a permanent record of what you 'd done so that you ca n't turn round and say well I do n't remember them conversation
15 Well I I want to have a big picture of England on the wall on which I can start to tick off bits as we get them .
16 Both teams have lost their first game so a win tomorrow is vital if they want to have a realistic chance of making the play-offs .
17 Every teacher , from the reception class upwards to the age of 16 , needs to have a confident grasp of what the whole process of schooling and education can provide for and require from the pupil .
18 The field needs to have a good supply of water .
19 In a democratic society , this means that the public needs to have a basic understanding of science , so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of experts .
20 ( b ) Taking instructions As noted above , the drafter needs to have a clear understanding of the nature of the client 's business , in order to ensure that the terms meet the needs of the client 's business , taking account of its products , customers and problems .
21 ‘ L ’ stands for laminate , and this fabric is claimed to have a hydrostatic head of 10 metres — thoroughly waterproof — but the seams are not hot-taped .
22 It will offer up to £100,000 in support to Fife companies with ideas that are considered to have a good chance of success but lack resources needed to develop their products .
23 The Committee suggested that the Lord Chancellor should appoint chairmen and clearly favoured an increase in the use of lawyer chairmen principally because lawyers were considered to have a good grasp of principles of procedural fairness .
24 A patient was considered to have a previous diagnosis of asthma if they were enrolled in the pulmonary clinic with the diagnosis of asthma , were receiving chronic bronchodilator therapy , and had a FEV 1 of not less than 1.5 litres .
25 Sotheby 's sheet had seen too much of the sun and was also considered to have a high estimate of $150,000–200,000 .
26 This excluded group , which the supplement categorises as ‘ inadequately described ’ or ‘ unoccupied , ’ and which consisted of approximately 849000 children in 1981 , is reported to have a variable pattern of death rates .
27 PCB residues in the blubber of the California bottlenose dolphin also exceeded previously published concentrations for cetaceans from all other parts of the world , except perhaps the Mediterranean coast of France , which have been reported to have a maximum concentration of over 2500 ppm .
28 To sustain the more general claims one would first need to have a systematic account of the class structure of a society which showed that the interests promoted by the state were in fact those of the ruling class .
29 … the old distinctions between teaching.staff and librarians will become hopelessly blurred … both tutors and advisers will need to have a thorough understanding of subject fields and the various generic .
30 Local firms will need to have a good grasp of the challenges or threats that 1992 will bring , to have a good feel for which sectors and industries locally will be most affected when the barriers come down .
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