Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [be] to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ambition is to have a different look each day so that I ca n't be labelled . ’ |
| 2 | As you know , my intention is to have a perfect record of the island from prehistoric to present times . |
| 3 | Their demands were to have a radical effect on British livestock on a national basis and a massive trade developed in which cattle were reared in the more remote northern and western regions , sent in droves to fatten on grass and turnips in the Midlands , Norfolk , Essex , Hertfordshire , Middlesex and Surrey , and thence to London 's slaughterhouses in due course . |
| 4 | The female cuckoo can mimic only one type of egg and must try to lay in a nest of this species if her offspring is to have a good chance of survival . |
| 5 | The ideological division of women into two classes , the virtuous and the fallen , was already well developed by the mid-eighteenth century : its reality was to have a vivid impact on the Victorian imagination . |
| 6 | Her idea was to have a first-aid kit in the catering department as an essential safety precaution . |
| 7 | Finally , the question of national guilt and its expiation was to have a long history in relation to abolition and emancipation involving a definition of national interest as meeting national duty by observing the religious conception of proper order in the world . |