Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bono understands and relishes the positive subversive possibilities of pop , and realises the piercing edge it should have over the advertising poster , the average sitcom .
2 Given that we need to ensure that we should have as a priority the conservation of resources and energy efficiency , whatever the amount of reserves of oil and gas , what progress has been made by the Department and the Treasury in discussions with the European Community on the value added tax harmonisation talks with a view to the introduction of a lower level of VAT for environmentally friendly technologies which conserve resources ?
3 Locke , although not opposed to corporal punishment as a final sanction , nor indeed for very young children of an age too tender to be reasoned with , in order to instil the necessary fear and awe that a child should have for an adult , strongly disapproved of beating once formal education had begun , just as he was equally opposed to bribing the child to work through material rewards .
4 Four members of the sprint squad missed the bus and arrived at the stadium later than they should have for the morning heats .
5 But having spent all his career in a family business , Sir Adrian has inevitably given a lot of thought to the responsibility a company should have for the community in which it operates .
6 I am merely reporting on the fate to have befallen every other Minister for Sport you can care to mention which is one of the reasons why we are still debating the kind of football stadiums we should have for the future when every other country besides Botswana and the Cocos Islands have already built theirs .
7 The criteria most commonly used to establish how many people we should have in a sample are such characteristics as age , gender , marital status and socio-economic status , although various other criteria may be used as appropriate .
8 ‘ Our sentencing system has become muddled , and many of our fellow citizens lack the confidence which they should have in the decisions of our criminal courts .
9 When he urged the pieds noirs to give up integration , when he ordered the army to remain loyal , when he appealed to the FLN to lay down their arms and negotiate , he evoked not just the powers and responsibilities of his office but the confidence that they should have in the person of himself , General de Gaulle .
10 So that Committee is not determining what training people should have in the companies .
11 I am immensely relieved — she had a terrible anxiety feeling , and the move might have killed her altogether , and must have as a writer , I think .
12 It seemed to her she must have on every piece of jewellery the family owned .
13 she must have on the christening
14 Pinkie sucked in his drink in a curious manner , very curious considering how many gins lie must have in the course of the week , as though his glass was a blowhole in Arctic ice and to drink was his only hope of survival .
15 We could n't see the track they were following at all — amazing sense of direction they must have in the Jungle .
16 Your licence we 'll have for a year .
17 I did n't it was so bright and windy so I put another lot in after that lot came out it 'll be , only be T-shirts I 'll have in the dryer when they finish off .
18 So I said There 's no way that what you 've just told me will go in an hour , I said It 'll take at least a couple of hours and what about all the small stuff he 'll have in the house ?
19 ‘ He 'll have like a styrofoam burger-box and he 'll cut a hole and put like his balls and his dick up there and then he goes — ‘ Oh !
20 Was she aware of the effect her large , amber-coloured eyes , her curving red lips , might have on a man ?
21 ‘ You was breathing fire and brimstone ! ’ she guessed , well knowing the effect a Puck Fair fortune-telling might have on a customer .
22 Population attributable risk provides an indication of the impact that controlling a causal factor might have on the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome .
23 A question asked early in the interview may affect answers to subsequent questions , and if this order were to be altered it becomes difficult to detect the effect this might have on the replies .
24 It remains difficult to judge the precise impact NVQs might have on the CIB 's qualifications .
25 Even the attempt to limit the number of members each guild or craft might have on the council did not curb the power of the greater companies .
26 On 7 June an emergency meeting of the NSFU Executive was held at which Father Charles Hopkins , standing in for the absent Havelock Wilson , pointed out the disastrous financial effects which participation in such a stoppage might have on the union and the peril in which it might stand in respect of its hard won provincial settlements .
27 But the relevance of the question perhaps becomes more obvious if one considers a few examples of the kind of indirect or hidden influence that higher education might have on the culture .
28 Whatever personal designs Robert the Bruce might have on the throne , he was unlikely to achieve them without some mutual agreement .
29 Using existing data sets , it will make initial estimates of the scale of any effect which low incomes might have on the health if the elderly in Britain , and go on to assess the likely role of some intervening variables which might account for the close correlation between income distribution and longevity in developed countries .
30 But the FA 's reply confirmed that they would not allow the match to take place because they were worried about the effect it might have on the pitch .
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