Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [verb] to have " in BNC.

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1 I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council .
2 He adds that ‘ the natives of Mull are very careful to chew a piece … especially when they intend to have a drinking bout ’ .
3 Can we really do nothing about it , just because they seem to have taken one of our slogans , one of our demands and twisted it ?
4 Practices would be wise , however , not to appoint unqualified people just because they seem to have good listening skills .
5 Stepps played with great courage throughout but they appear to have lost their fight for survival in the division .
6 I mean he 'd ha he had a pack up but they had to have money to buy ra
7 Yes , you look surprised , but lots of people keep them as … well — ’ he shrugged ‘ hardly as pets , but probably because they like to have something different . ’
8 For the most part they were nominally Muslims now but they appeared to have an idea of torturable classes .
9 Pupils soon grow weary of a parade of historical topics selected solely because they appear to have a popular appeal or relevance .
10 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 .
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