Example sentences of "[noun] have [to-vb] an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Anyone standing for election at local government level has to have an election agent .
2 About this time recruits had to pass an examination in English and arithmetic before being given permanent employment .
3 Even a small council such as a parish council has to have an officer responsible for the administration of its financial affairs although this duty may well fall upon the clerk .
4 In Brent , council leader Merle Amory had to organize an emergency meeting of the pension-fund investment panel .
5 Functions have to return an answer , but the value returned by this function is a null string .
6 followed by It is possible to change the print control variable ( @% ) within a print list by using the function : Functions have to return an answer , but the value returned by this function is a null string .
7 Every stage in the process had to offer an advantage to the organism in the struggle for existence : natural selection can not plan ahead and can only promote those characters that are useful in the short term .
8 It is not always easy to balance challenges and skills even when working with a single child on a relatively straightforward task ; for these class teachers working with mixed ability groups in settings where the normal practice was for several different tasks in different curriculum areas to be undertaken simultaneously , an adequate balance between challenges and skills throughout the group had to remain an aspiration rather than an achievement .
9 The long , narrow living room had to accommodate an assortment of furniture — two navy sofas , a floral sofa , almond-green curtains and a TV set , not to mention a variety of side furniture in different woods .
10 The children looked bewildered , but she added consolingly , ‘ That 's why dogs have to have an injection every year that protects them against that horrible disease as well as many others . ’
11 THE newest submarine for the Royal Navy had to make an emergency ascent during trials off the west coast of Scotland yesterday after fears of contamination to her air supplies .
12 However , The Scotsman understands that the vessel had to make an emergency ascent to the surface in order to avoid a possible contamination of her crew 's air supply .
13 With the Corsair now in the UK , Lindsey had to find an operating base for it .
14 But before these matters could be considered the court had to address an argument for the Crown which , if it had succeeded , would have brought an immediate end to the matter .
15 The 86-year-old had to call an ambulance when her carer failed to turn up .
16 This is a development of flash cards which works the visual memory even harder , because the pupil has to carry an image of strings of words .
17 A manager has to create an environment in which a new act can get on with their music as free as possible of worry about business .
18 The same question was usually set in two versions , one multiple choice and one where the pupil had to supply an answer .
19 Miller had to have an illness which was visible , painful , incurable , distasteful to others and yet not even remotely acceptable as a ‘ status ’ ailment , such as duodenal ulcers , a disorder rather too fashionable among business executives , mass-communicators , literary agents and other money-grubbing vandals .
20 Firstly , why should a voluntary arrangement have to mimic an Administration Order ?
21 With Alan Kernaghan suspended , and newcomer Jon Gittens not eligible , Lawrence has to find an answer to the centre half problem .
22 Hot on Rigby 's heels is Little Budworth 's Mike Barber who in turn has to keep an eye on Dingle 's Tony Collins , just a few points behind .
23 The blindfolded man has to preempt an attack as soon as he feels it coming by blocking and striking lightly in the direction that he senses it is coming from .
24 … admittance to Britain or deportation ; cases where the Home Secretary has to consider an appeal in which wrongful conviction is alleged , or appeals to him from police officers , or prison officers , against disciplinary decisions ; and prisoners ' petitions to the Home Secretary .
25 Those who wanted to compete in the qualifying tournament for places on the 1983 Tour had to pay an entry fee of $1,000 .
26 Ruth Baird continues to teach a strong Edinburgh class but as a result of her unplanned and completely unsponsored double somersault down a highland waterfall , Muriel Jessop had to have an operation to deal with a torn cartilage and frayed ligaments in her knee .
27 Not only did he write music for various Masonic ceremonies ( such as the Maurerische Trauermusik ( Masonic Funeral Music ) , K.477 , for the memorial service of two fellow-Masons ; but , as we shall see , he actually wrote a ‘ Masonic ’ opera that was riddled with the arcane symbolism of the craft — an incredibly daring act for the member of a society dedicated to absolute secrecy to do ( all its members had to swear an oath to ‘ hear and conceal ’ on pain of having their throats cut or their tongues pulled out ) .
28 To exploit his stature , de Gaulle had to create an organization from scratch , fend off rivals to his legitimacy , and dodge the attempts of his " allies " ( he used quotation marks on occasion ) to remove him .
29 To change people 's attitudes , advertising has to make an impression .
30 All foresters had to take an oath in the local Forest court , in the presence of the verderers , to perform their duties conscientiously , to keep the Forest law , and not to oppress the forest landowners and the other inhabitants of the forest .
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