Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] to have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Not that it 's anybody 's business , but even a dybbuk needs to have some downtime . |
| 2 | Looking to the future we hope to have news of a guest speaker or two for the early part of the summer and also the club intends to have some representation at the Hertfordshire Show . |
| 3 | While protectionism as a transnational political force appears to have little likelihood of success in the forseeable future , the threat of it is ever present as a reminder that the orderly progress of global trade in the interests of the TNCs has to be maintained and those who transgress will be punished . |
| 4 | Indeed , manufacturing capability seems to have such a major impact on product development that it is worth examining in greater detail . |
| 5 | My result does show there are exceptions — the jacanas are one — but the rule seems to have enough generality to invite explanation . |
| 6 | A number of other models have been suggested for the development of scientific knowledge , but these models are measuring the concomitants of scientific growth — the manpower , costs , publications , citations , etc — and none has so far been developed to fully describe the growth of knowledge itself , although Goffman 's work seems to have some predictive value . |
| 7 | The skilled sportsman seems to have more time and to do things more slowly than the less skilled one . |
| 8 | Even accepting that executive directors are now required to give their full-time attention to company affairs , the law appears to have little role to play in ensuring that the board engage in proper long-term planning or respond vigorously to changes in the business environment . |
| 9 | But the County Council still has some longer term debt , not external but internally , that is being paid now and not over time , and so the position actually will not change , so long as the Council continues to have more credit approval than it requires to use the new borrowing . |
| 10 | In the final stages of such inflation , paper money ceases to have any value and people resort to barter , and in the meanwhile the country 's financial system disintegrates . |
| 11 | Nanna wants to have all the er plants picked out of the greenhouse and erm have them all in the trays and up to us by the end of May before they go away on holiday . |
| 12 | Having said this , and conscious of the arguments advanced in this Report against excluding non-believers , the Commission believes that the musical director needs to have some Christian commitment . |
| 13 | The idea of each institution forming a coherent academic community seems to have little purchase in reality . |
| 14 | Even when set up correctly some units have their clip lights coming on at the slightest provocation , while the Alpha seems to have more headroom before it clips , which should therefore mean less chance of unwanted distortion . |
| 15 | This change appears to have little effect on the remaining coefficients from ( 2.2 ) , confirming the importance of both relative returns and aggregate financial activity in determining the level of foreign portfolio investment in the UK . |
| 16 | In other families the mother may be responsible for the discipline and management of the house and feel she can never have fun with the child and that father seems to have all the nice times . |
| 17 | Those involved are attempting to come to grips with the injustices , the inequalities and the prejudices of a political system in which the practice of representative democracy appears to have little relevance to their plight as they battle against the social and economic problems briefly outlined above . |
| 18 | Body fat distribution in women of reproductive age seems to have more impact on fertility than age or obesity . |
| 19 | The task of condensing five thousand years of glass-making appears to have little deterred the contributors of this latest offering from the British Museum . |
| 20 | While the state has to have some autonomy to fulfil its role , it is by no means completely independent . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , well , a man has to have some fun . ’ |
| 22 | In order for such a policy to be successful and efficient the government has to have some idea of the size of any changes in tax rates and so on required to stabilize the economy , and some idea of when precisely such changes are required . |
| 23 | A community can tolerate much diversity — more than in Locke 's day when religious conformity was one requirement for full citizenship — but any society has to have some common rules and policies , whether it be in matters as trivial as which side of the road we drive on or as momentous as whether there is capital punishment . |
| 24 | Man needs to have some understanding of how this , and other atrocities , are possible as one of the major ways for avoiding them in the future . |
| 25 | The critical reader of a poem needs to have some idea of what a poem is , which need not be a theoretically sophisticated idea , and some acquaintance with poetry already . |
| 26 | Argument on each layer tends to have half an eye to what is at issue on the others . |
| 27 | The little minx seems to have half the young men in London at her feet . |
| 28 | To summarize , the McKinsey matrix seems to have more general scope for devising investment and general financial-management policy . |
| 29 | A profession tends to have few members , each member possessing esoteric knowledge which sets him or her apart from their peers . |
| 30 | I called the waitress over and told her : ‘ This plate seems to have some of yesterday 's fish-pie on it . ’ |