Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legislation covering the conduct of elections , adopted at the same time , included the stipulation that presidential candidates had to pay a non-repayable deposit of CFA1,000,000 ( US$3,700 ) . |
| 2 | Lifestyles remained simple but identification with the masses was impossible if kids had to get a decent education . |
| 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 | Marcel and Patterson ( 1978 ) presented one word , followed by a pattern mask ( see Chapter 4 ) such that the word could not be identified , and the mask was followed by a letter string about which subjects had to make a lexical decision . |
| 5 | For example , in areas of the South Pacific it is not uncommon for parents to have to relinquish a new baby to admiring kin who have claimed it ( Sahlins 1976b ; Silk 1980 ) . |
| 6 | Informed parents have to make a difficult choice . |
| 7 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 8 | Now the Conservatives have to find a new candidate . |
| 9 | British officals have to tread a fine line between registering the ‘ UK dimension ’ , as they call it , in the Trident debate , and not offending Congressmen by being too heavy-handed . |
| 10 | To win a Guinness Earth Science Award , applicants had to supply a 1,500 word essay covering the following subjects : |
| 11 | In the early part of 1990 there was a run of particularly low tides , one of which resulted in a boatyard in Sant'Elena , on the north-eastern edge of Venice , burning to a cinder because the fire boats had to take a roundabout route . |
| 12 | To qualify as a true Prisoner 's Dilemma , remember , the payoffs have to follow a particular rank order . |
| 13 | It is worth noting that multiple objectives also arise when several individuals have to make a joint decision , the objective functions modelling the aspirations of each individual . |
| 14 | Manager Greg Downs has to change a winning team . |
| 15 | Managers had to adopt a supportive style in their relationships with high-performance teams . |
| 16 | It was not possible to vary this , because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism . |
| 17 | Sounds had to take a different tack in order to push Oi ( and boost its circulation ) . |
| 18 | Suppliers had to demonstrate a clear product strategy for DB2 . |
| 19 | Partners have to reach a common understanding of good learning environments and of the conditions which produce them in order that they may jointly promote them . |
| 20 | Registered VAT payers have to present a three-monthly return ( not synchronized between stages ) on which all output tax and input tax is declared for the period and the net tax paid . |
| 21 | Patients have to obey a strict regime and Carre is forced to share a room and bathroom with another addict . |
| 22 | It has been clear from the beginning that there are problems here for teachers having to assess a whole range of attainment targets across the curriculum . |
| 23 | One hundred and forty committee and board members took part , and the colleges and departments had to face a different kind and volume of documentation . |
| 24 | So the platers had to use a manual override to get any production at all . |
| 25 | Debra Busuttil will never have another baby because after labour was induced for the dead child doctors had to perform a life-saving hysterectomy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Do children have to cross a busy street to get to it ? |
| 28 | The King 's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that . |
| 29 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 30 | The school was the last to close in 1968 and now primary school children have to make a four mile return journey to Middleton-on-the-Wolds . |