Example sentences of "have [verb] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Assistant director of social services , Andrew Brooker , said : ‘ We have consulted with a wide range of staff and other agencies who have a direct interest in how Hampshire carry out implementation of community care legislation .
2 Now is a good time to plant , so plants can become established before they have to cope with a dense canopy of leaves and dry soil in the summer .
3 The companies also have to cope with a growing demand for water .
4 Teachers , who have to cope with a large group of children , are likely to regard aggressive or disruptive youngsters as problems and overlook those who are quiet and withdrawn because , in their terms , they are ‘ well behaved ’ .
5 As we have seen already when we have to cope with a large number of losses in a short time , it becomes much harder to deal with the grief that we feel .
6 Many of these animals not only have to contend with a changing landscape due to human development ( ! ) but also human greed .
7 Do not feel that you have to persist with a particular type of pressed flower work if you are not happy with it .
8 The supreme audit institutions of both countries , as well as of the profession , have responded with a greater application of and greater publicity about economy , efficiency and effectiveness auditing .
9 If you have come with a particular ache or pain , do not expect it to disappear straight away .
10 For this reason , arguments for the existence of the monster based upon visual evidence have met with a good deal of scepticism .
11 Better designed and better tested materials than ours have met with a similar fate .
12 These may include the managers or key workers who have moved with a decentralizing firm , although in some areas , notably Cornwall ( Perry 1979 ) , migration may occur before employment is obtained .
13 You have to play with a special membrane , made of v. thin bamboo , over one of the holes .
14 In addition to Acts of Parliament both Houses have to deal with a great deal of what is known as ‘ subordinate ’ or ‘ delegated ’ legislation .
15 HM Inspectors of Factories or Agriculture visit many types of workplace , and have to deal with a wide range of technical and legislative problems .
16 In short , we still have to deal with a harmonic problem — the satisfactory effect of note-combinations both in isolation and in horizontal movement .
17 Some institutions have experimented with a fixed camera operated by the teacher , so that no one else needs to be in the room to operate the camera .
18 The confusion yields when we realize that we have to do with a limited area , however large , and that the ‘ unionists ’ , if I may use this term , made the mistake of extrapolating the ambiguity and interchangeability within this limited area to the whole scope of Mozart 's staccato notation .
19 But when one is dealing with associative use , we have to do with a binary distinction ; the adjective is introduced solely to indicate that its property , even though applicable to some other entity , is associated with the entity of its noun phrase , and here there are only two possible states — either the property is associated , in the view of the speaker , or it is not ( and of course by a slightly curious consequence of the communicational process , the state must always be the positive one , since if the property were not felt to be associated with that entity and needed for identification , then the adjective which designates that property would simply not appear ) .
20 Despite the concern for promoting reflectiveness among teachers , their in-service opportunities have to compete with a week-by-week preoccupation with in-school organization — modifying the management plan , feeding information back into the cycle of formative teaching and testing and balancing the books in order to cover one more curriculum or non-curriculum speciality .
21 His parliamentary supporters have reacted with an inventive set of procedural obstructions , but Mr Ozal continues to press for further constitutional amendments — one of whose side-effects would be to allow publications and possibly broadcasting in Kurdish .
22 Company Programmes have worked with a wide range of clients to develop their managers to solve a range of business issues which include
23 In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification .
24 They have coincided with a sharp rise in refugees taking advantage of liberal asylum laws .
25 It would , you may recall , have coincided with a heavy-duty exercise at Catterick Camp involving a mid-air collision of civilian and military aircraft .
26 Those who have lived with a large refrigerator on board their yacht in sunnier climes will remember what a bother it is to have to run the engine for an hour every day to keep the drinks cold and the food fresh .
27 Missionaries who have lived with a cultural expression of the gospel adapted to their own context have to divest the message of that cultural adaptation and seek to introduce the gospel in a form which is culturally appropriate to the community in which they are seeking to communicate .
28 Diets have changed with a modest increase in consumption of cereals and brown bread and a marked fall in the amount of high fat foods and butter eaten .
29 The local landowners and crofters have countered with an alternative proposal for a Wester Ross Wilderness Area .
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