Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] to have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it was not at all unusual for civic authorities to have a mourning sword which , on the death of a monarch , alderman or council member , was carried in the procession before the mayor in place of the civic sword . |
| 2 | But now anyone wanting to smoke must go to one of three designated rooms to have a cigarette break . |
| 3 | But how was it possible for two different people who clearly knew some basic mechanical principles to have a go and produce answers that were nonsense ? |
| 4 | I do hope that I have encouraged any nervous knitters to have a try at using the reader . |
| 5 | Could we arrange for such offenders to have a sound thrashing ? |
| 6 | And those who do bid for the franchise must solve these problems to have a chance of winning . |
| 7 | In 1895 the Congregational Chapel in Aylesbury agreed to repeat the Lord 's Prayer during Sunday services ; three years later the Church accepted a proposal from its younger members to have a vase of flowers in chapel during services and someone donated a vase . |
| 8 | In the case of major company resources it is fair to say that the very large companies invest millions in their computer systems and they expect these systems to have a life span of at least a decade . |
| 9 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 10 | It is therefore a legal necessity for almost all goat-keepers to have a copy of the MAFF Code of Welfare of Goats . |
| 11 | The organisation 's policy is to allow no more than 4 companies to have a franchise in any one country . |
| 12 | To reiterate the point just made , this is not an argument about the functional necessity for all societies to have a category of ‘ crime ’ but an argument about the positive qualities of what happens to be defined as crime under capitalism ; indeed , the argument is usually combined with the assumption that under socialism there would be no such thing as crime . |
| 13 | Somehow ‘ Carlsson ’ does n't quite cut the mustard like Porsche 's ‘ Carrera ’ , but these are the first of the company 's production-line cars to have a name — like BMWs , they have always had numbers — and as the man at Saab said , at least you can pronounce it . |
| 14 | The couple had waited ten years to have a child , only for driving instructor David to fall into a delirium with appendicitis as Helen went into labour . |
| 15 | The A. & P. Gypsies , by the way , were among the very first stars to have a radio ‘ series ’ — a programme which was broadcast regularly from the same station at the same time of the same day of the week . |
| 16 | They would have to win their remaining two games by big margins to have a chance of escaping , starting next week at Walsall , who are just above them . |
| 17 | The ultimate answer used to be a move to the former East Germany , where some would-be subscribers had reportedly been waiting 23 years to have a telephone installed . |
| 18 | lesbians , any women to have a child and , I 'm just wondering how many of us are thinking about the rights of , of the child ? |
| 19 | I just thought that something like that it would be very good practice but if you have a related documents to have a record of the enquiry with it would make sense of the enquiry , even if our situation was different to the other divisions . |
| 20 | The committee believes that the public expects external audits to have a role in protecting the interests of shareholders , creditors , pensioners , employees and the public generally by providing them with reassurances that : |
| 21 | In other words to have a file of lecturers in lecturer number order , another in name order , another in status order , and yet another one according to qualification . |
| 22 | A charity which paid for a group of Russian orphans to have a holiday in England has brought them back again . |