Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 In Germany you have to carry , if you wear glasses , you have to carry a spare pair of glasses with you !
2 These documents — student records and timetables — often have to carry a great deal of information including complex messages and progress summaries .
3 Dressage is one of the hardest competitions for the horse and rider because the horse and rider have to perform a certain series of movements in an arena .
4 You have to cause a great deal of damage to a Troll to stop it regenerating .
5 Partners have to reach a common understanding of good learning environments and of the conditions which produce them in order that they may jointly promote them .
6 None of these methods of book provision are suitable for the British public library authorities created by the 1972 reorganization of local government , in which bookstocks have to serve a large number of service points ( usually more than 20 , sometimes as many as 70 ) scattered over a very large area .
7 We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ?
8 Disabled people find that they have to put a great deal of effort into making various authorities meet their ordinary everyday needs .
9 The steeplechase course at Auteuil is a far cry from Newbury or Cheltenham , and the runners in the four-mile Grand Steeplechase have to negotiate a bewildering variety of obstacles : some of the fences are soft privet , to be jumped through rather than over ; there are two natural brooks , including the Rivière de la Tribune — four metres of water preceded by a hedge one metre high and one metre wide ; and then there is Le Bullfinch , a rail , ditch and fence on top of a stone wall .
10 Pupils should come to understand that because writers are not able to use the voice to emphasise key points in a sentence , they have to use a wide range of grammatical structures ( such as the passive , or other alterations of word order ) to bring about the desired emphasis .
11 You could go through again and you could put sodium instead of that M G but where you had things like M G O H twice you 'd just have N A O H so you 'd have a have to do a little bit of changing about .
12 You have to give a little bit of er credibility there for people not being quite that dim do n't you ?
13 They have to give a written description of the waste to the collectors , and sign a transfer note for it .
14 Er there are interests all over an and some er have a higher value er er and some have a lower value but they are all related erm so it 's not possible to regard er a contest solely as an isolated advers adversarial struggle where you 're weighing up the rel the relative forces , the relative military capabilities that exist , you have to consider a whole range of political , economic and strategic effects of , of your , your , your action .
15 Obviously , the way you sound is up to you , but it is worth deploying all the resources you have to ensure a decent quality of recording and to present the cassette in an appealing way .
16 One is the performance aspect because every time we need to access the relational database across the network we have to send a large piece of transactional logic , a piece of S Q L code , across the network , and that could be significant in size .
17 No , I have to get a terrible picture of cows up close , huge huge and , and .
18 A bit complicated : you have to get a hard core of guests and relatives over to the Register Office first ; then rendezvous at the church ; then get back to the drink-up .
19 In the main , staff have to complete a qualifying period of service ( often two or three years ) before they qualify for this .
20 This does not mean that you have to pay a whole team of specialists anything up to £600 a day each .
21 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 ?
22 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 ?
23 He was saying that in order to have a greater life , you have to have a strong awareness of death .
24 I think the main ingredient for success is that you have to have a good sense of timing .
25 To do this you have to have a good understanding of the materials .
26 ‘ To be good at the game you have to have a reasonable level of intelligence , ’ said Cathy Williams , a teacher from the Percy Hedley School in Newcastle which caters for children with cerebral palsy .
27 But I would agree with Mr , that it does add a further pressure , it means we have to have a real review of erm , how we pay allowances in order to stay within our budget limit , which I think is two hundred and two thousand for the current year , and erm , a little bit more for next year , according to the previous paper .
28 ‘ The whole cultural situation in Oxford is such that you have to have a certain degree of power or influence of money to be admitted to any social sphere , ’ he fumes .
29 There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed .
30 To understand life today , you have to have a great sense of humour .
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