Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that they might not need it , most people like a little fat spread on bread or choose to have fried food occasionally . |
| 2 | Erm , but , having been supported by each chief officer and general manager , you will see in paragraph eleven of the report , the various actions that have been taken over the last twelve months or so , and I would like to pick out particular the fact , that chief officers are now , operating or required to have effective arrangements for achieving equal opportunity in employment in their department or unit . |
| 3 | There is thus a rule of construction that if a provision in an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom is ambiguous , it should be given that interpretation which is consistent with international obligations rather than one which conflicts ( Inland Revenue Commissioners v Collco Dealings Ltd [ 1962 ] AC 11 ; similarly , there is some authority for seeking to protect fundamental constitutional statutes from unintentional repeals ( see , e.g. , per Lord Wilberforce in The Earl of Antrim 's Petition [ 1967 ] 1 AC 691 ) If , however , such devices do not evade the problem , then traditional notions of the sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament require that any provision in any later statute which is inconsistent with any earlier provision repeals the latter to the extent of any inconsistency , whether declared or intended to have this effect or not ( Vauxhall Estates Ltd v Liverpool Corporation [ 1932 ] 1 KB 733 ; Ellen Street Estates Ltd v Minister of Health [ 1934 ] 1 KB 590 ) . |
| 4 | First decide on just two matches that appear to have outstanding draw chances and mark them X in the first column of the Treble Chance ( to the right of the fixtures ) . |
| 5 | For example , in the US , two that appear to have some merit are the Certified Human Service Worker assessment procedure ( National Commission for Human Service Workers , 1983 ) and the Child Development Associate training and assessment programme ( Office of Child Development , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , his energy of observation remained constant and again inclined towards the economics of the area : he contemplated one piece of land , a ‘ watery flat ’ , that seemed to have natural drainage possibilities — ‘ it had a visible declivity ’ ; although he allowed that even if he felt it could be reclaimed without ‘ difficulty or expense ’ , these were relative terms . |
| 7 | But this was one of those large , Victorian houses than seem to have endless flights of stairs leading off from each level . |
| 8 | The only killer that seems to have much success in dealing with this troublesome prey is the North American marten known as the fisher . |
| 9 | When you are busy and time is at a premium , do you end up " snacking " rather than bothering to have proper meals ? |
| 10 | It was the child that had to have first consideration , and what had I got to offer it that justified my bringing it into the world ? |
| 11 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 12 | The company was formed in 1906 and planned to have 300 electrobuses on the road within a year . |
| 13 | They all look shopmade and tend to have unimaginative decorations on top . |
| 14 | Such adjectives belong to the popular , rather than learned , stratum of English vocabulary and tend to have emotive connotations , here largely pejorative . |
| 15 | We have bought an Aga , and intend to have central heating , probably oil-fired , as well as open fires . |
| 16 | Built to a 24½″ scale , the necks are maple and appear to have genuine rosewood fingerboards . |
| 17 | Thus in both menstruation and childbirth , a woman is associated with both life and death and deemed to have dangerous power over the fate of the foetus . |
| 18 | Havelock Wilson records the tactics of both sides in Liverpool in June and July 1889 : " I saw some of the principal owners at the beginning and endeavoured to have all questions settled on conciliatory lines . |
| 19 | The men spoke of him in genuinely affectionate terms , in spite of his nickname , and seemed to have great confidence in him . |
| 20 | But , as far as I was concerned , he was just another rockabilly who 'd park his flash motor out the front and seemed to have more money than all the rest of us put together . |
| 21 | Macca looked a class act , some great passing , and seemed to have more time on the ball than anyone else , but he did n't get into the game quite often enough . |
| 22 | She told me she made a point of taking a walk each day to get out of the way of all the old people , but I was reassured when I saw that she was well-known at the café and seemed to have several friends among its patrons . |
| 23 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
| 24 | Some visually handicapped pupils have good central vision and seem to have little difficulty in reading , but poor peripheral vision can give them problems in managing their environment . |
| 25 | The White Welsh is generally rougher in coat than the White Park and tends to have bluish flecks and patches on the neck and shoulders rather than black . |
| 26 | Mrs Allen was taught which foods contained protein and vitamins and encouraged to have some form of protein with each meal , as well as fruit and vegetables , at least once daily . |
| 27 | Mr Delors is said to have phoned Mr MacSharry and threatened to have any deal involving concessions voted down in Brussels . |
| 28 | Benny realized with a shock that he meant it , and began to have second thoughts . |
| 29 | He sounded coherent , but he was too ill and doped to have any idea what he was saying . |
| 30 | In Butler 's case this led to a radical campaign against the Contagious Diseases ( CD ) Acts of the 1860s ( under which prostitutes were subject to compulsory medical inspection and detained if found to have venereal disease ) , which she saw as part of the double moral standard oppressing all women and debasing family life . |