Example sentences of "the [noun pl] to have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They remembered it because it was so unusual for the Zosers to have a visitor , and because he came so late . |
| 2 | There is a recognised case for the utilities to have a right of compulsory acquiring the use of land . |
| 3 | In order for the crews to have a chance of completing a tour of thirty operations , losses had to fall below 4% , but on trips to Berlin , Stettin , Magdeburg and Nuremburg — all long-haul destinations — they sometimes touched 10% . |
| 4 | As soon as you had a break in your ploughing you 'd walk along the headlings to have a look at your neighbour 's work , to see where he had gone wrong , or if his ploughing was better than yours . |
| 5 | The first gerrymander of the city occurred in 1896 , with the Londonderry improvement Bill ; this created five electoral wards , one of which held the bulk of the city 's Catholics , and enabled the Unionists to have a majority in the others . |
| 6 | ‘ It is good for the passengers to have a choice of airlines and it is good for the airlines themselves to have to respond and innovate . |
| 7 | I went back to Temple Meads Station — the clock stared at me , nearly one o'clock , dinner-time — and went to the Ladies to have a wee and a drink of water . |
| 8 | He led off the line and stayed in front for five of the 15 laps before driving into the pits to have a misfire cured . |
| 9 | That was for the for the men to have a drink if they want one . |
| 10 | So although in a liberal democracy it would seem practical and even suitable for the police to have a say in the way order is defined and maintained , as Foucault ( 1970 ) and Douglas ( 1987 ) have shown , this will inevitably take on an expansionist line ; for anything other than bland support of the proposals of the institution will present a challenge or pose a threat . |
| 11 | And I said to him I 've worked out that less in the mornings to have a firm come in , you know |
| 12 | I shall suggest however that the philosophical framework which allowed the fathers to have a Christology which could be in some way inclusive of women has disappeared ; and moreover that even patristic Christology does not solve the problem . |
| 13 | So , apart from building tennis and squash courts , he managed to fit five holes of golf into a part of the school grounds and encouraged the boys to have a go . |
| 14 | Annette says she wanted to encourage the boys to have a try at something different . |
| 15 | He had gone down to the cells to have a look and discovered that the prisoner was his former schoolmate . |
| 16 | According to Mosley , the interruptions showed the necessity for the fascists to have a defence force and demonstrated that for many years past there had been no freedom of speech in the country . |