Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 2 | And their bride has to wear er , all in red and er the bridegroo er groom has to wear a long costume with a red big flowers in front i aha and then they get married and there 's erm band , the Chinese traditional band with drums and trumpets blowing all the time and er , all the guests have a very nice time . |
| 3 | Hence , to reflect Renaissance preoccupations adequately he has to include a wider variety of genres — and a wider variety of poets , for that matter — than the traditional canon allows . |
| 4 | I still regret it , but I 'm afraid the Prime Minister has to appear a great deal on the media . |
| 5 | It has to provide an appropriate milieu for the sex act , to act as a channel for the menstrual flow , which is the shedding of the unused lining of the uterus when conception and implantation of the fertilized ovum has not taken place , and also furnish the route by which the baby exits . |
| 6 | Each brothel has to obtain a special licence from the police and the names of the women must also be registered . |
| 7 | The skilled interviewer has to establish a fine balance between being receptive — allowing the client to relax and talk freely — and being in control — so that the client is guided into talking about fruitful areas , and also that the interview is closed on time . |
| 8 | Steve Cram , the Olympic 1500 metres silver medallist in 1984 , still has to launch a serious challenge for his place in the team but took another solid step on the road to Barcelona with an encouraging relay leg at Sheffield . |
| 9 | Alongside this , one has to set a high degree of tolerance , dependency , held by unskilled workers [ whom we interviewed ] . |
| 10 | The support worker has to create a delicate balance between giving advisers the ‘ answer ’ for a client and directing them to the relevant part of the information system . |
| 11 | The decoder has to create a cognitive space in which the deictic elements and terms can be realised indexically . |
| 12 | Management has to create a workable structure for collaboration , taking into account the objectives of all the various interest groups or ‘ stakeholders ’ in the organisation . |
| 13 | Dead empires have bred leaping ambition ; international politics has developed into a struggle between competing ethnic groups ; the United Nations has to pick an impossible path between respect for sovereignty and respect for nationalism . |
| 14 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 15 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 16 | Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much . |
| 17 | Anyone who ‘ uses ’ copyright music has to buy an annual licence from the PRS These ‘ music users ’ include everyone from radio and television stations , clubs , pubs , restaurants , shops , concert halls , dance halls and any other place where there is either live or recorded music audible to the public . |
| 18 | Wheelchair-bound and with a high percentage of skin loss that has worn away most of her fingers and toes , she has to endure a 90-minute ordeal of having her dressings changed every morning . |
| 19 | Tom Clarke , meanwhile , has to persuade a hard core in his own party that acting in concert with the SNP on certain occasions does not equate to dancing with wolves . |
| 20 | I I 'm certainly not My Lords er un er er an unqualified admirer of all our procedures in local Government , but I do believe that before central Government is further down the road of , of erm usurping functions which are now those of local government it has to persuade a large number of people that its own performance justifies such a course and myself I do n't believe it does . |
| 21 | It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments . |
| 22 | This presents more difficulties for the researcher , who has to do a great deal of interpretation in order to make inferences from what people actually do to their motivations for doing it . |
| 23 | To understand music-hall and vaudeville one has to fight through layers of myth and romance and one has to undo a whole view of the past that uses nostalgia for pre-1914 as a touchstone . |
| 24 | Alongside the challenges of the Social Charter and the Community Charge he has to keep a firm grip on the Government 's sponsored schemes . |
| 25 | Ammophila , the caterpillar-hunting wasp , has to keep a close guard over her paralysed prey . |
| 26 | So a hummingbird that specialises in feeding from Heliconia has to patrol a whole group of plants , visiting each hanging spike of blossoms in strict rotation on a carefully timed schedule . |
| 27 | Plugs or outlets too , are often fitted in a haphazard way around the room , with the result that when a lamp is placed where it seems most needed , it frequently has to trail a dangerous mess of flex or wire with it . |
| 28 | Considerations of finance are important in relation to that , because I do not believe that British Rail has to build an underground station in order to achieve its purpose . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |