Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] have [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built .
2 The critic necessarily has to take a manifesto into account .
3 Because it is an interlocutory judgement it is usually heard before a master of the High Court , and a defendant only has to show a good arguable case for the plaintiff 's application to fail .
4 Ireland prepared to face Cuba today ( 11.00 BST ) with the unenviable record of being the only side not to have scored a goal in the 12-team tournament .
5 Whereas Robert Rauschenberg already had produced an erasure of a De Kooning drawing in the early 1950s , Kienholz assembled his Odious to Rauschenberg in 1960 .
6 wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all .
7 We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates .
8 In Northern Ireland new drivers already have to display an ‘ R ’ ( for restricted ) plate and may not exceed 45mph for one year after passing their test .
9 Later cases witnessed the ‘ competitive invocation ’ of the two tests , the authority whose decision was to be impugned claiming that the applicant still had to satisfy the higher hurdle of real likelihood of bias .
10 The president still has to make a host of key decisions : how generous to make the benefits ; how to pay for the changes ; how much freedom to give the states and , above all , how to sell the package .
11 Candidates also have to choose a paper in one of these two areas : the Philosophy , Nature and Practice of Geography or the United Kingdom and France .
12 Dressmakers also had to meet the cost of hiring a sewing machine at 1/6d to 2/6d a week .
13 Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits .
14 Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits .
15 Again , such subjects typically have to develop a more ‘ scholarly ’ , conceptual or abstract side in order to gain admittance to and status within the academic fold , although to some extent they can isolate themselves from other faculties and departments — art and design in the polytechnics and colleges often seem to be states within a state , enjoying an autonomy underpinned by their separate location on inherited art college sites .
16 Denied the comfortable illusion that the League could restrain aggression without killing people , pacifists now had to face a harsh choice .
17 A well-informed horseman simply had to grasp the horse 's head firmly and give it a sharp turn and back him out of the area that had been contaminated by the jading substance .
18 As one correspondent put it , British umpire , Jeremy Shales and Belgian official Walter Leeman frequently had to warn the 20,000 crowd to moderate their enthusiasm .
19 Growers here had expected a bumper season .
20 MV The poet here has acquired a political status because of our peculiar history .
21 Once the source text is understood , the translator then has to tackle the task of producing a target version which can be accepted as a text in its own right .
22 He was only 21 when he answered the call : a young man from a comfortable background who only months earlier had taken an interest in politics for the first time .
23 Subjects therefore had to obey the laws of their earthly governors , in whatever they commanded that was not contrary to divine law .
24 Dona never had to feel the pain , torment or be racked with guilt as Anna did .
25 The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) .
26 But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis .
27 Institutions thus have to make a judgement as to what liquidity ratio is best — one that is neither too high nor too low .
28 They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game .
29 Anyway , that meant I could have a decent drink and trust to luck not to have to need a lift back .
30 Mostly musicians spend their time jerking off in front of others and guitar and bass-playing readers are basically fans of the idea of that , but the truth is that it 's all individual — every neck on every guitar just has to feel a certain way .
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