Example sentences of "have to have [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " 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 If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 You do not always have to have a specific link to other items on the syllabus .
7 She 'd have to have a debriefing session with Edwin when they 'd gone .
8 ‘ Well , we 'll just have to have a male crone for today , ’ replied Miss Thorne in a dangerously quiet voice .
9 Clearly we would have to have a separate system for representing the presence of objects and their features that was not dependent on knowing their identity .
10 I shall have to have a long talk with the Lord beforehand . ’
11 you 'd have to have a huge sort of bureaucratic structure
12 No you do n't have to , there 's no , there 's no rea there 's no , there 's no thing that makes someone but it , it if you 're pissed off it does n't , you do n't have to have a special reason to be pissed off you can just be pissed off like you can just be annoyed , it 's like saying you 're annoyed when someone nicks your towels .
13 She would have to have a stern talk with Debbie about including extraneous information instead of plain hard fact .
14 I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school .
15 However , he had to have a close feeling of empathy with the horse in the first place to be able to transmit the mental idea .
16 James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " .
17 I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’
18 Bracewell , who received the injury in an accidental clash with Gavin Peacock in the derby game at Newcastle last month , played in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Norwich City , but missed the midweek defeat at Leicester last week when he had to have a slight blockage in his nose cleared .
19 He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it .
20 The King 's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that .
21 He had to have a new battery for it , and two of the tyres were n't legal .
22 It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even .
23 If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it .
24 The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat .
25 It was not until 1868 that every train travelling more than 20 miles ( 32 km. ) without stopping had to have an efficient means of communication with the guard and driver .
26 She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going .
27 ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position .
28 I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague .
29 And it blows all the gaskets and they have to have every single part of the engine taken out and cleaned
30 Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ?
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