Example sentences of "has [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] [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 Each brothel has to obtain a special licence from the police and the names of the women must also be registered .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Alongside this , one has to set a high degree of tolerance , dependency , held by unskilled workers [ whom we interviewed ] .
9 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 .
10 The decoder has to create a cognitive space in which the deictic elements and terms can be realised indexically .
11 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 .
12 Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment .
13 The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Alongside the challenges of the Social Charter and the Community Charge he has to keep a firm grip on the Government 's sponsored schemes .
21 Ammophila , the caterpillar-hunting wasp , has to keep a close guard over her paralysed prey .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it .
26 This means that the ‘ brain' of the synth has to have a certain amount of waveform information from the guitar before it can determine an actual pitch and synthesise that information accordingly .
27 The general format and size of advertisements has been specified by National Marketing and must be adhered to ; it includes the KPMG logo at both top and bottom of the details and therefore the advertisement has to have a minimum size of 2 columns wide and 8 cm deep .
28 The flash has to have a manual override to be useful , as it will serve only to tell the operator when a photograph has been taken .
29 In reality no fish has to eat a vast amount of food , though luckily for us some are right pigs !
30 Finally , the clinical teacher has to maintain a good relationship with patients and relatives .
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