Example sentences of "[noun] have to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers . |
| 2 | The flash has to have a manual override to be useful , as it will serve only to tell the operator when a photograph has been taken . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the objective threat posed by the Soviet Union and its own nuclear weapons means that the United States has to have a permanent war economy and that the people recognise this and vote for it . |
| 4 | ‘ If the law has to have a proper effect then landlords and breweries should know that to serve young people like this , they are in danger of losing their licences . ’ |
| 5 | Holford 's planners had to have a broad cultural background and were to be ‘ enablers ’ , building up from research and synthesis to a design end-product . |
| 6 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |
| 7 | When Minton painted alongside students in the life class ( ‘ That was a marvellous adrenalin shot , ’ recalled Greaves ) he taught by example that a picture has to have a lively activity right up to the four edges of the canvas , and that if the background is treated merely as a secondary constituent to the model , areas of the canvas will become inert . |
| 8 | He explained that every biscuit has to have a different flavour and must be new or improved , as Americans have a short attention span : ‘ The food here is a bit like the film industry ; you always have to come up with something else . ’ |
| 9 | It was not possible to vary this , because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism . |
| 10 | Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day . |
| 11 | Q. Do you approve of a woman having to have a vaginal examination as apart of the routine medical examination to enter Britain ? |
| 12 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 13 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
| 14 | There is always a closed circle of suspects ( so there can be no question of someone unconnected with the setting coming in from outside and doing the deed , as might well happen in " real life " ) and each of these suspects has to have a credible motive as well as reasonable opportunity of committing the crime and reasonable access to the means with which it was committed . |
| 15 | The King 's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that . |
| 16 | To win an award , each restaurant had to have a healthy eating option on the menu , be spotlessly clean and provide a non-smoking area . |
| 17 | Nationalisation had to have a clear socialist stamp on it . |
| 18 | This means that the ‘ brain' of the synth has to have a certain amount of waveform information from the guitar before it can determine an actual pitch and synthesise that information accordingly . |
| 19 | Out of the gentlemen who came into farming at that time [ before mechanization ] only about one in twenty could make it go : the others had to have a skilled man to manage the farm for 'em . |
| 20 | The general format and size of advertisements has been specified by National Marketing and must be adhered to ; it includes the KPMG logo at both top and bottom of the details and therefore the advertisement has to have a minimum size of 2 columns wide and 8 cm deep . |