Example sentences of "have [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's gone all over the eastern Mediterranean , and now has plans to go to the western end , to Spain , which was a thriving colony of the Roman empire with a lively intellectual life which had n't been touched by the Christian faith . |
| 2 | ‘ Johns has aspirations to get into the American World Cup side . |
| 3 | During this time the patient has time to think about the latest piece of the jigsaw puzzle' and , in many cases , to meditate upon it . |
| 4 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |
| 5 | A freezer well stocked with little bags , each containing a prepared calorie-counted and fibre-counted meal , provides excellent protection against temptation to break your diet simply because you have n't had time to shop for the right foods . |
| 6 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
| 7 | She would ‘ have to make a very special effort ’ to build the links with other professionals — GPs , the police , consultants and others on which she had barely had time to start in the five months she was there . |
| 8 | ( iv ) Pupils should have opportunities to write for a wider range of communicative or informative purposes , including : describing , explaining , giving instructions , reporting , expressing a point of view , persuading , comparing and contrasting ideas , arguing for different points of view . |
| 9 | 17.54 ( i ) Pupils should have opportunities to write in a wider range of forms , including a number of the following : notes , diaries , personal letters , formal letters , chronological accounts , reports , pamphlets , reviews ( of books , television programmes , films or plays ) , essays , advertisements , newspaper articles , biography , autobiography , poems , stories , playscripts. ( ii ) Through experience of a wider range of literature they should learn to produce stories which are more consciously crafted , for example , using some detail in the portrayal of characters or settings or with some attempt to introduce elements of suspense or surprise with a skilfully managed resolution . |
| 10 | In April 1990 the Prince of Wales launched his ‘ Volunteers ’ scheme , under which young people would have opportunities to contribute to the public welfare and learn the value of participation and the feeling of belonging to the community through voluntary work . |
| 11 | They very much enjoy having guests to stay on a house-party basis and they will arrange daily activities and entertainments for most evenings . |
| 12 | Again , we do not have room to delve into the fascinating area of population changes , but it is clearly true that in the Western world there is an older and ageing population that is radically altering the shape of the population curve . |
| 13 | The basic rules of procedure for any such exercise , short or prolonged , remain very much the same : a six-week programme may well include a series of short ten-minute sequences as well as other episodes and exercises and in devising materials for either one would take into account the basic procedures of materials production which we shall have occasion to examine in a later chapter . |
| 14 | This aspect therefore involved a judgement that low-income families … do not have access to credit at an acceptable price . |
| 15 | That 's the main thing and then if you 've got any questions afterwards hopefully we 'll still have time to go through a few questions . |
| 16 | The Security Council , meanwhile , gave its 14,000 peacekeepers in Croatia the right to use force if necessary to defend themselves and extended their mandate until 31 March so international mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen would have time to arrive at a political settlement by then . |
| 17 | I do n't have time to waste on a lazy little girl like you . ’ |
| 18 | Er , Mr Deputy Speaker I do n't have time to deal with the other points but if I 've missed anything in particular I will write to honourable members concerned . |
| 19 | He did not have time to dwell on the finer points of policy detail , and despite Kirk 's Ron-concurrence " he would have to send his telegram . |
| 20 | This is a useful technique for systems designed to operate at the highest speeds , where the time taken for the initial current build.up exceeds the step period , so that chopping action does not have time to begin in an excited phase ( Acarnley , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | The proposed airport , for example , will have facilities to function as a Chinese domestic facility , with immigration arrangements for visitors to both Macao and China . |
| 22 | The race of the wild route that torn the Thresian bard in rodderpee , where wood and rocks had ears to rapture to the savage clamour drowned both harp and voice . |
| 23 | We had coal to carry from the top pasture by the road where the coalman used to leave it , and I do n't think it would have been possible but for that snow bridge . |
| 24 | ‘ We all had jobs to do from an early age , feeding the pigs , washing the eggs , ’ she says . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've dinner to get for the new master and his lady wife . |
| 26 | I just had time to dive into the nearest ditch , dropping the bicycle on the road , before I heard another shower of bullets . |
| 27 | They booked into a guesthouse on the far side of Warminster , and they had time to get into the High Street before the shops closed to buy Erlich a pair of wellington boots , and a rainproof coat that was n't so City , and a hat . |
| 28 | As he walked behind the plough he had time to think of the easy relationship that had gradually built up between them . |
| 29 | Skill descriptions are generalisable in that human operators have characteristic abilities and limitations and therefore have tendencies to perform in the same way . |
| 30 | In these cases while people have reason to act in a certain way , given the situation they are in , they also have reason to change the situation , though they are unable to do so by themselves . |