Example sentences of "[vb base] to have [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seven surviving Ryder Cup men in the field — four missed the cut — appear to have little chance of a confidence-boosting victory . |
| 2 | Thus the arguments for easier maintenance and greater longevity of plastic windows appear to have little foundation in fact — an argument often ignored by the brewers . |
| 3 | Quite understandably , the Commission objected to this procedure , which made UK tapwater appear to have less lead in it than the consumer experiences . |
| 4 | Other public services , notably the health service , have a comparable complexity even if they appear to have fewer levels of authority and discretions of autonomy . |
| 5 | So the null hypothesis that the γ coefficients are all zero can not be rejected , and therefore neither the current nor the lagged DM 's appear to have any influence on the rate of unemployment . |
| 6 | It changes the taste of food to the extent that some dishes no longer appear to have any connection with their oil-less counterparts : a fresh sardine , for example , is quite different from one which has been transformed by being preserved in oil ( a point implied by the existence in the Czech language of two quite different words for the fresh and the oil varieties : a sardine in oil is called olejovka , from olej=oil ) . |
| 7 | For example , in the US , two that appear to have some merit are the Certified Human Service Worker assessment procedure ( National Commission for Human Service Workers , 1983 ) and the Child Development Associate training and assessment programme ( Office of Child Development , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience . |
| 9 | There is a promise , and strength of quality in their songwriting , but The Prayer Boat appear to have some way to paddle before they find a grasp of the studio techniques they will need to coax real spirit from their music . |
| 10 | None the less there is a need to consider three countervailing social control forces , which appear to have some effect on persons contemplating ‘ conventional ’ crimes , to see if they act as brakes on persons contemplating corporate crime . |
| 11 | If we want to have that freedom again — to stand out against the trend and , if necessary , to be on our own — then I pray that the Government will look hard at the question of retaining the right of a single foreign policy , with the decisions made by this country alone . |
| 12 | Like most people , older people want to have enough income for their needs and to live in homes which they can manage and keep warm . |
| 13 | ‘ Want to have another go at steering the boat — in open water this time ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ In the meantime , ’ Blanche said , ‘ I want to have another chat with our prime suspect . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Allan Lamb , David Gower and a chap called Botham want to have another crack at Australia because to us that is the pinnacle of Test cricket . ’ |
| 16 | Or , if you want to have more fun … |
| 17 | Or perhaps you want to have more fun , and laugh more ? |
| 18 | If you want to have more fun , for example , do you also believe that work justifies your existence , or that fun-loving people waste time , or that it 's ‘ better ’ to be serious and heavy-hearted ? |
| 19 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 20 | We want to have some degree of confidence in that er the parameters that we estimate right have remained relatively constant over our sample period . |
| 21 | Or we can if we like we can close the shutter at night at Summer nights , But in the Winter if we want to have some light , we open the shutter and put the fenestral back again , either way round it does n't really matter . |
| 22 | Erm you know , not just er something that is er created and left there , it 's with that erm the the thing in mind , that if if people want to have some place where they can get together , in the kind of atmosphere that they want . |
| 23 | How significant that his response to the overwhelming evidence that the people of this nation want to have some form of democratic control over their own destiny is to propose anything other than a democratic solution . |
| 24 | Workers expect to have some control over the means by which they perform a set task , and they resent having means specified in too much detail . |
| 25 | I hope to have more details for you in the next Journal . |
| 26 | ‘ There is one key area in which I hope to have some success over the next year and that is in bringing the clubs and the union closer together ’ . |
| 27 | We happen to have this year ( she is leaving ) a lady who is a qualified teacher and a qualified librarian . |
| 28 | For decades yet , whether it be in Newcastle , London , Los Angeles , Sydney or wherever , I fully expect to see , or hear of , his rising from the audience at the end of someone 's lecture with ‘ I just happen to have this slide here , which illustrates … |
| 29 | They 're the sort of thing that you 'll find used as backing music for the test card — and when you hear them you begin to have some sympathy for those who refuse to pay for a TV licence . |
| 30 | Though theoretically useful to library planners and funding authorities , standards rarely seem to have much influence upon events , which are determined by political factors or chance . |