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

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1 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 .
2 There is always a closed circle of suspects ( so there can be no question of someone unconnected with the setting coming in from outside and doing the deed , as might well happen in " real life " ) and each of these suspects has to have a credible motive as well as reasonable opportunity of committing the crime and reasonable access to the means with which it was committed .
3 If the heat could not be sufficiently localised to avoid this , then the first solders had to have a higher melting point than the subsequent ones .
4 To win an award , each restaurant had to have a healthy eating option on the menu , be spotlessly clean and provide a non-smoking area .
5 On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers .
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