Example sentences of "[adj] to have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Landsat TM data are supplied on a 256-level scale it would seem sensible to have a memory bank comprising eight data planes , since 2 8 equals 256 . |
| 2 | It seemed sensible to have a choice of ways of generating electricity . |
| 3 | On the cost to the European Community budget , I do not believe that it is sensible to have a system that costs more . |
| 4 | It would be much more sensible to have a body responsible for surveying all transport activity in Scotland because there is no organisation with responsibility for doing that . |
| 5 | GCE O and A levels were devised when a large proportion of children left school after the fifth year , and when it was therefore sensible to have a block of examinations taken in that year , to operate partly as a school-leaving certification , partly as a screen , to select those who would stay on . |
| 6 | It must have been painful to have a man you liked appropriated by a younger sister , McLeish thought , but this self-contained creature was not going to tell him — or possibly anyone else — how it had felt . |
| 7 | Did you think perhaps I was too old to have a grandmother still alive ? ’ |
| 8 | It 's free to have a go and the Centre is on Queens Walk in the Meadows in Nottingham that 's from one until three today if you want to go there . |
| 9 | So it would seem that people in homes where they were free to have a doctor of their own choice were not seen as being more deprived of visits in spite of having fewer of them than people in homes where everyone had the same doctor . |
| 10 | It 's one thing to leave your children with a couple you know and trust , but quite another to have a man you only know through a babysitting circle look after your children for an evening . |
| 11 | There was had to be a discreet list circulated naming those ( mainly ) Soviet Bloc officials in London with whom it was highly inadvisable to have a solo drink or dinner . |
| 12 | People like Ybreska were too afraid to have a commitment , even to openly express doubts . |
| 13 | Additional priorities must be to encourage the players to express some individual flair and support those who are prepared to have a go rather than just retain possession which Scotland did achieve against Samoa for long enough . |
| 14 | Certainly down in Sussex we have one or two people who , one or two places that have hospital radio , and welcome people who are prepared to have a go , in that sense , and that is an even more limited way of , but a legitimate way of , of learning the game as it were . |
| 15 | Be prepared to have a chat , offer a cup of tea or biscuit or to help people to the toilet or on to a commode . |
| 16 | Would at least the Noble Baroness be prepared to have a look at that what appears to be , and I have made some investigations , a somewhat distressing situation . |
| 17 | Unlike the Prime Minister , I am prepared to have a referendum on this fundamental constitutional issue . |
| 18 | The response of local people is vital in the fund raising effort and any shops who would be prepared to have a collection box should contact Deidre Shaw on . |
| 19 | ‘ We expect to attract people who are willing to have a flutter knowing that , win or lose , money will go to good causes , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Now I 'm lucky , I have four children no problems as such , and I have great sympathy for anyone who goes through all this to have a child ! |
| 21 | I think it 's interesting to have a split , grubby , overlooked psyche , do n't you ? |
| 22 | Very interesting to have a review from you of the O D A's work , both with regard to central and Eastern Europe and the developing world and I 'm sure I speak for everybody in saying we are delighted minister that you spent the third part of your , your speech looking at the U N convention on the rights of the child which as you rightly say , is very close to the heart of Save The Children . |
| 23 | IT WOULD be interesting to have a league table for literary industries — has the Darwin industry now surpassed the Wittgenstein industry ? |
| 24 | Of the Clinton-Gore tenure so far , he said ‘ In some ways it 's interesting to have a president interested in technology ; it could be good , and it could be bad . |
| 25 | But er looking at er Professor Lock 's suggestion and the criterion that is set out there I think er a number of people might be interested to have a go at those criteria so to speak . |
| 26 | So start thinking about those charity experiences and make sure you write to us by March 30 to have a chance of winning . |
| 27 | He had a limp , he had a false leg , and of course , when you 're kids it strikes you as very funny to have a woodwork teacher with a wooden leg , so he 'd say , ‘ What shall we make today , kids ? ’ and we 'd go ‘ Want another leg , sir ? ’ and things like that . |
| 28 | Thus he considered the social sciences too messy to have a paradigm or even to be likely soon to acquire one . |
| 29 | I learnt later that he and some of his lords considered I was wrong to have a conversation with enemies of Lilliput . |
| 30 | However , it would be wrong to have a system which meant that some countries set aside land so that other countries could produce more . |