Example sentences of "[be] to have [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Superficially the solution would seem to be to have two kinds of operators , those who carry out the routines and others who are on call should unforeseen emergencies arise .
2 To fear the worst may be to have those fears come true .
3 In total , 500 NHS patients are to have private operations .
4 TNC does not seem to recognize how worthwhile changes in assessment need to be ‘ slowed ’ by teachers and to have a wider impact on curriculum and teaching methods if they are to have beneficial consequences for achievement levels ; that such reform takes time and considerable teacher commitment ; and that a heavy investment in INSET is needed .
5 Chrysanthemum cuttings need to be taken if we are to have any flowers next season .
6 We are to have larger leagues next season and in the long run that ca n't be for the good of the game in Wales .
7 Being highly centralized , the British system has not been to have powerful centres outside London from which groups of services can be conducted for that area , but to administer each of the important functions of government from Whitehall for the whole of the country .
8 They were to have eight children , of whom six died in extreme infancy and only two sons , Frederick Arthur and Leslie , survived .
9 They were to have six children ( five sons and a daughter ) : Jean Baptiste ( b 1732 ) , Antoine Jacques ( b 1733 ) , François ( b 1735 ) , Eugène Menin ( b 1737 ) , Jacques Louis ( b 1740 ) and Marie Geneviève .
10 Thomas Cook and his family were without doubt the single most important innovators , establishing not only a major business enterprise but methods of operation that were to have global implications .
11 Such incidents were symptomatic of tensions within the socialist movement that were to have long-term consequences .
12 In practice the three larger states were to have two nominations each , the others only one .
13 His friendship with Polanski developed , and he and Robert Evans were to have major roles reserved for them in Nicholson 's life , personal and career .
14 In religious terms , these two exilic and post-exilic developments — i.e. the concentration upon ritual purity and the sharp differentiation in male — female social function — were to have far-reaching consequences for women .
15 Important innovations were introduced by the 1919 Act , which were to have far-reaching implications .
16 The freehold maisonettes , proposed in 1922 were to have communal facilities run by servants in three shifts .
17 Now it wo n't cure all the problems I 'm pretending that it will , but if we were to have proper seats , proper microphones , electronic voting I believe that it would show symbolically that the House of Commons was prepared to modernize itself and start doing a proper job in our democracy rather than the farce and the theatre which frankly turns so many people off in modern Britain .
18 Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed .
19 Indeed the changes wrought by the Prussians were to have enormous consequences for the formation of nationalist opinion in the city after the First World War , and it is important to see the extent to which these policies provided the basis of German identity and political purpose in the east , and provoked the very Polish nationalist response they supposedly sought to suppress or prevent .
20 ‘ I would back myself to score 20 goals this season if I were to have three chances in every game , but those opportunities do not come so easy for me in Italy .
21 They were to have three children ; Will junior , Gladys ( both of whom went on the stage ) , and Joan .
22 They lived in St John 's Wood and later in Wimbledon , and were to have three daughters and a son .
23 They married in 1911 and were to have three daughters .
24 Alongside these developments there were also extensive social , economic and political changes which had and were to have profound effects on societies in Western Europe and elsewhere .
25 If it is to have empirical consequences it must rule out many other ways of understanding the pattern of metaphors .
26 One other possibility is to have two cameras recording simultaneously onto two recorders .
27 A particularly favoured combination is to have two detachments supporting a main body of halberdiers , one of hand gunners and another of swordsmen .
28 Penny Vincenzi 's Wicked Pleasures ( Orion ) , a cut above the norm in this glitzy genre , is to have two covers , the gold gloss of the C format plus one with a white background .
29 The aim is to have all hosts implement CCL , and by 1981 some 12 hosts had done so .
30 However , at the moment the only way to stop attacks is to have all dogs muzzled in public .
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