Example sentences of "[conj] to have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His fate was to be valued as a conversationalist , to his detriment as a writer , and to have a profound effect on those who were to become better known than himself . |
| 32 | After six years in a Birmingham slum parish , Anna thought , you became desperate not to have a front doorstep strewn with down-and-outs and to have a back garden littered with worms , not discarded syringes and used condoms . |
| 33 | They subsequently won the right to start moves to have the inquest verdict quashed and to have a judicial review . |
| 34 | And to have a big mouth to project . |
| 35 | But to have a multiple personality , in which one self may suddenly be overthrown by another and one mind may be torn in several different directions is sometimes so intolerable , I long for extinction . |
| 36 | She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer . |
| 37 | They came on foot , in horse-drawn carts , by bicycle and by bus , arriving early in the morning so as to have a full day 's prayer . |
| 38 | Take balls of the almond paste and roll into thick fingers and place end to end , so as to have a thick line of paste . |