Example sentences of "[verb] is have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 2 | To be employed is to have an ongoing contract that holds you accountable for doing work of a given type for a specified number of hours per week in exchange for payment . |
| 3 | The first thing to do is to have a major component of the reading section to include dyslexia , with erm instruction of trainee teachers , not only in how to recognise the problem , but also how to do something about it , and how to use the education system to bring support for parents and pupils . |
| 4 | Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman . |
| 5 | Another thing you will have to do is have a BIG AFFAIR . |
| 6 | As competent , adult readers we are sometimes aware that something we are reading is having a considerable effect upon us . |
| 7 | The road that they have created I think is having a damaging effect on the team and is making it more difficult for us to get the results . |
| 8 | The only way in which we can help is having a Labour government that has a policy to secure verifiable arms reductions . |