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

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1 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 .
2 The flash has to have a manual override to be useful , as it will serve only to tell the operator when a photograph has been taken .
3 ‘ If the law has to have a proper effect then landlords and breweries should know that to serve young people like this , they are in danger of losing their licences . ’
4 If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it .
5 When Minton painted alongside students in the life class ( ‘ That was a marvellous adrenalin shot , ’ recalled Greaves ) he taught by example that a picture has to have a lively activity right up to the four edges of the canvas , and that if the background is treated merely as a secondary constituent to the model , areas of the canvas will become inert .
6 He explained that every biscuit has to have a different flavour and must be new or improved , as Americans have a short attention span : ‘ The food here is a bit like the film industry ; you always have to come up with something else . ’
7 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 .
8 To remove Mr Yeltsin the congress has to have a two-thirds majority .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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