Example sentences of "[adj] and have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillor Norman Murray said that the signal to unsocial tenants should be quite clear and had to be backed up with swift and firm action . |
| 2 | She was jumpy and had at one point been startled by her own shadow . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 4 | I was six years old and had to be accompanied to the cinema by my two brothers [ five and seven ] . |
| 5 | Such a dynamic system is inherently unstable and has to be monitored and controlled in order that an optimum performance can be achieved . |
| 6 | It is , therefore , complex and individual and has to be cultivated . |
| 7 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 8 | Built circa 1880 , bits drop off the outside and have to be caught in a wire net hung over the door . |
| 9 | On some machines the tuck brushes are separate and have to be screwed into position . |
| 10 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that once the father had acquiesced in the removal of the children within the meaning of article 13 ( a ) , the court in the exercise of its discretion under that article was entitled to take into account the interests of the children even though there was no grave risk to them if they were returned to their place of residence within the meaning of article 13 ( b ) ; but that , under article 13 ( a ) , the children 's interests were not paramount and had to be balanced against the purpose of the Convention , which was the return of children wrongfully removed within the meaning of article 3 ; and that , accordingly , the judge had rightly considered the children 's interests when exercising her discretion under article 13 ( post , pp. 546G — 547E , F–G , 548G — 549A ) . |
| 11 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 12 | British Telecommunications Plc says that the bid by AT&T Co to operate in the UK could speed liberalisation of the key North Atlantic telecommunications route , and reckons that the matter could be settled within months ; AT&T says that it would much preferred to have entered the UK market with a local partner but saw no prospect of that ( it had been negotiating with Cable & Wireless Plc for a stake in Mercury Communications Ltd ; meanwhile each side throws regulatory brickbats at the other , with AT&T complaining that it has to deal — on a confidential basis — with British Telecom on interconnect and access charges where in the US , charges are much lower and have to be applied within the operator 's own business as well — and that simply applying for a licence in the UK costs $70,000 against just $610 in the US ; British Telecom complains that it was n't allowed to increase its 20% stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and achieve a management position — and likely would be barred from buying MCI Communications Inc , where AT&T would be free to buy Vodafone Group Plc — or even Mercury , outright , if it wanted to . |
| 13 | However there were snags : the glass panels in the roof leaked , the chrome work rusted and had to be removed , the twenty-feet trolley arms were prone to dewiring , until shortened . |
| 14 | For example , most abduction experiences , which often take place in childhood , are repressed and have to be recovered using hypnosis . |
| 15 | Management may be prepared to pay this higher cost when labour is scarce and has to be attracted from alternative employment , or when a union is making strong demands for a higher quality of working life . |
| 16 | Even then , it was not free from disaster , and the central and the south-west towers collapsed in a storm of 1210 and had to be rebuilt . |
| 17 | In fact it was still alive and had to be destroyed . |
| 18 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 19 | They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station . |
| 20 | Chris Smalley had earlier come upon ML 2 alongside in the Entrance and scrambled aboard with his squad , but in trying to get her forward guns firing he was killed before she was afire and had to be abandoned about 0245 hours . |
| 21 | In this type of work the researcher 's personality inevitably bulks large and has to be taken into account in the evaluation of his reports ( a critical task which colleagues assume with un-becoming zeal ) . |
| 22 | They have to be constantly on the move , seeking the fruit and insects on which they live , but their babies , usually twins , are particularly large and have to be carried piggy-back until they are quite old . |
| 23 | But this sophisticated attempt to deal with exhibitor resistance to British films was ruled illegal by the US Justice Department in 1946 and had to be replaced by a less ambitious system , in which Rank 's films were sold on their merits . |
| 24 | They sound very untidy and have to be edited . |
| 25 | In long and complex cases delay was inevitable and had to be accepted , so why then , she asked , should that not be so in a simple case . |
| 26 | There is a sense which is appreciated in almost all the religions that religion is itself unsatisfactory and has to be left behind . |
| 27 | And ( as will be shown later in this section ) when a physical or sexual abuse investigation , for example , does develop , such investigations are often time consuming and stressful and have to be conducted in the context of other duty work . |
| 28 | He was married and had at least one son . |
| 29 | These additions were first added to working copies of the Decretum in the 1150s and 1160s , but by the 1170s they had become far too numerous and had to be placed in separate books . |
| 30 | The screws knew I was vocal and articulate and had by then got my own way to a fair extent by being incredibly polite and incredibly persistent but not actually stepping out of line . |