Example sentences of "[verb] have [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick has had a ministry to businessmen for many years . |
| 2 | SHOULD Labour Councillors in Eastbourne , whose party has had the area to itself for as long as I can remember , ‘ knock on doors ’ in this area , I hope residents will raise the question of the state of the Neasham Road approach to Darlington , south of the railway bridge , particularly when at this time of year it is a pleasure to approach the town from any other direction . |
| 3 | SHOULD Labour councillors in Eastbourne , whose party has had the area to itself for as long as I can remember , ‘ knock on doors ’ in this area , I hope residents will raise the question of the state of the Neasham Road approach to Darlington , south of the railway bridge , particularly when at this time of year it is a pleasure to approach the town from any other direction . |
| 4 | British Coal has had an option to mine the site for the past ten years . |
| 5 | I do rather enjoy having the flat to myself , despite a constant battle with my clutter ! |
| 6 | The priest , somewhat contrivedly , has to have a piggy-back to the house : ( And mounts without any more words On the " cul " of the boy … ) |
| 7 | So you all positively want to have the chance to be interviewed on radio and to put over what you think is important . |
| 8 | All sixty-five , despite wildly divergent styles ( Minimalism to Neo-Romanticism ) , and mostly diabolical qualities , are claimed to have a hot-line to the Sacred . |
| 9 | Yet at least England can now hope in the future for better things from the bat of Lewis , who has always looked to have the ability to be a genuine all-rounder at Test level but until this match had scored just 483 runs from 15 Tests at an average of 24 . |
| 10 | There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it . |
| 11 | The heavier atomic bits — the stuff that goes to make up the planets — they had to wait until later until they 'd had a chance to be built up . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'd had the sense to be frank with her last March , maybe I could have done that . |
| 13 | No , I mean , it would have been fantastic if they 'd had the cash to just get on would n't it ? |
| 14 | Of 34 patients followed throughout the year , only two seemed to have no response to the healing . |
| 15 | Lindsey leaned against the rail , conscious of his nearness , her mouth dry with a nervousness that seemed to have no logic to it . |
| 16 | This did not mean that they were wholly resistant to new ideas — that was clearly not the case because many spoke of the helpful advice and information given on the farming , nutrition , health and child care programmes — but they seemed to resist anything which either conflicted with views they already held or seemed to have no relevance to their experience . |
| 17 | At any rate , he was out of sight , though not exactly out of mind , and she seemed to have the castle to herself , apart from the distant , discreet presence of the staff . |
| 18 | The boy , who bears the surname of his fish wholesaler father Daniel Ducruet , is said to have no claim to the throne and is not even a royal . |
| 19 | Similarly , we might claim to have a right to private property on account of having interests which crucially depend on private ownership . |
| 20 | I also think that there is n't a woman alive who would n't like to have a companion to be there with a cup of tea when she 's in bed with the flu and a high temperature , or holding her hand at the surgery when she 's awaiting the result of a test . |
| 21 | I note that RDS would like to have an input to this work , and would be pleased to consider anything that you wish to submit . |
| 22 | Do n't bother would be more honest , for he prefers to have the kitchen to himself in the early morning , to prepare his own simple breakfast and enjoy the first cigarette of the day undisturbed . |
| 23 | Did Mr Oakley mean he was going to have a room to himself ? |
| 24 | I do n't believe that I am really going to have the chance to be in this movie . |
| 25 | It appears that an increasing number of people are calculating their political support on the basis of the plausibility of the parties as governing parties , asking whether they seem to have the answer to the ‘ country 's problems ’ ( whether these be inflation , unemployment , taxation , law and order , trading position or whatever ) rather than voting , and engaging in political activism , on the basis of a deeply-felt class identification . |
| 26 | Only the man you marry has the right to … to touch you . ’ |
| 27 | The pursuers , having had no response to their requests for payment , treated the defenders ' failure in payment as discharging the contract and withdrew from the site , leaving the installation in an uncompleted state . |
| 28 | You refer to having had no reply to your letter of 9 February . |
| 29 | The Hammonds would have had no defence to an action for the price . |
| 30 | It should be noted that the accused would have had no defence to a charge of obtaining property by deception by switching the price labels . |