Example sentences of "have [verb] be [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the strengths Scotland has enjoyed is having a group of players who have become stronger than the individuals . |
| 2 | The Yasa will not be offended against if the ship is steered not by an oar , but by what the Khan has said is called a rudder , being just another kind of oar which is fixed to the stern of the vessel . |
| 3 | The one and only good thing that fluoridation has done is to provide an illustration of the urgent need for legislation to prevent the use of public money , the machinery of government , and the time of public servants for promoting private interests at the public 's expense . |
| 4 | All he has to do is drink a bottle a day , and he can skip lunch , keep late hours , loll around in his soft leather chair . |
| 5 | Olive MacDonald does the choir , soloists look after themselves , all the producer has to do is arrange a sort of ballet of tableaux to the music . |
| 6 | All the user has to do is enter a client account number at the beginning of each job , and again before a document is printed . |
| 7 | It does sound to me was there has to have been given a reason as to why the claim was rejected . |
| 8 | I 'm now going to say what you should 've done is write a bit more down on your short-term programmes . |
| 9 | All she 'd done was to make a bit of polite conversation ! |
| 10 | All he 'd done was to make a picture of someone in his head and worm his way inside it . |
| 11 | If you 're gon na separate chemically , say for example , you produced erm an organic acid which is optically active the things you would normally have to do is to use a base to make the salt of , you know , you make the two optically salt and then separate them by a thing such as fractional crystallisation and then we generate the acid afterwards very very tricky ! |
| 12 | Which means that if Gillian and Denise have any problems with the part all they 'll have to do is take a cue from Tara , for she is a seasoned performer who starred in Fortwilliam Musical Society 's production of the musical . |
| 13 | ‘ Then what I 'll have to do is to get a confession from the real murderer . ’ |
| 14 | Well I , I , I 'll , what I 'll have to do is have a word with the local police on this , cos it 's not something I can deal with tonight . |
| 15 | So now what they 've done is playing a match . |
| 16 | All he thought he had done was to assemble a collection of his favourite songs . |
| 17 | Life was relatively simple when all a politician had to do was generate a bit more economic growth and hope that enough of it would ‘ trickle down ’ to keep the wheels turning both nationally and internationally . |
| 18 | In James Watson 's account ( 1970 ) of the discovery of the structure of DNA — where the non-scientist expects to find strictly-controlled and logically-sequenced reasoning — there is an element of play : ‘ All we had to do was to construct a set of molecular models and begin to play ’ ( ibid . |
| 19 | Then all Paul had to do was put a tick under the right person 's name in the right colour for their shift . |
| 20 | ‘ All we had to do was take a basketful of poison-tipped bamboos into the mountains and stake them diagonally into the ground , right across the width of the valley . |
| 21 | Among all the fuss about income tax , I should like to point out that one of the best things the Conservatives have done is to allow a wife 's earnings to be taxed separately from her husband . |
| 22 | Consider in this light the following modification to one of the other examples given above ; all we have done is to add a group of things ( " kinds of images " ) of which the relevant phrase can be treated as a part : There are various kinds of images which can be explored . |
| 23 | What he 's done is stuffed an order through for a six three O eight . |
| 24 | The approach we have adopted is to provide an overview of current practice , and to reinforce this with examples from as wide a spectrum of opinion as possible . |
| 25 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 26 | All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged , take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes , make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans , and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual . |
| 27 | ‘ What we have to do is create a culture in which appointing women to senior jobs is easier , ’ he says . |
| 28 | All you have to do is create a batch file PERIOD.BAT containing the lines ECHO . |
| 29 | All you have to do is hire a plane out of here and go back south . |
| 30 | The revolutionary ‘ heat up ’ technology means all you have to do is press a button and fifteen minutes later you 'll have a perfectly warmed bottle . |