Example sentences of "have [verb] be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the strengths Scotland has enjoyed is having a group of players who have become stronger than the individuals . |
| 2 | The Yasa will not be offended against if the ship is steered not by an oar , but by what the Khan has said is called a rudder , being just another kind of oar which is fixed to the stern of the vessel . |
| 3 | In order to perform a pre-programmed masterpiece , all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array . |
| 4 | All he has to do is drink a bottle a day , and he can skip lunch , keep late hours , loll around in his soft leather chair . |
| 5 | Olive MacDonald does the choir , soloists look after themselves , all the producer has to do is arrange a sort of ballet of tableaux to the music . |
| 6 | Well if she lives down Dawson , all she has to do is get a one O six to Clapton , right ? |
| 7 | All the user has to do is enter a client account number at the beginning of each job , and again before a document is printed . |
| 8 | All the slimmer has to do is to add a daily allocation of skimmed milk and a slice of wholemeal bread . |
| 9 | It does sound to me was there has to have been given a reason as to why the claim was rejected . |
| 10 | I 'm now going to say what you should 've done is write a bit more down on your short-term programmes . |
| 11 | The only thing she 'd done is make a small scratch with a rose thorn and was unfortunate enough to get a piece of contaminated soil |
| 12 | All he 'd done was to make a picture of someone in his head and worm his way inside it . |
| 13 | All she 'd done was to make a bit of polite conversation ! |
| 14 | If you 're gon na separate chemically , say for example , you produced erm an organic acid which is optically active the things you would normally have to do is to use a base to make the salt of , you know , you make the two optically salt and then separate them by a thing such as fractional crystallisation and then we generate the acid afterwards very very tricky ! |
| 15 | Which means that if Gillian and Denise have any problems with the part all they 'll have to do is take a cue from Tara , for she is a seasoned performer who starred in Fortwilliam Musical Society 's production of the musical . |
| 16 | ‘ Then what I 'll have to do is to get a confession from the real murderer . ’ |
| 17 | Another thing you will have to do is have a BIG AFFAIR . |
| 18 | Well I , I , I 'll , what I 'll have to do is have a word with the local police on this , cos it 's not something I can deal with tonight . |
| 19 | During the final years of Elizabeth 's reign , the unique form of Protestant church she had erected was given a more distinct theoretical and philosophical identity in the writings of Richard Hooker , an Oxford academic and master of the Temple church in London . |
| 20 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 21 | So now what they 've done is playing a match . |
| 22 | All he thought he had done was to assemble a collection of his favourite songs . |
| 23 | What Chaplin the showman had done was to create a great screen clown , a clown whose frame of reference was to be emotion rather than politics . |
| 24 | All they had to do was hit a tiny fraction of the total available and they were in business . |
| 25 | Life was relatively simple when all a politician had to do was generate a bit more economic growth and hope that enough of it would ‘ trickle down ’ to keep the wheels turning both nationally and internationally . |
| 26 | In James Watson 's account ( 1970 ) of the discovery of the structure of DNA — where the non-scientist expects to find strictly-controlled and logically-sequenced reasoning — there is an element of play : ‘ All we had to do was to construct a set of molecular models and begin to play ’ ( ibid . |
| 27 | All she had to do was get a good night 's sleep . |
| 28 | Then all Paul had to do was put a tick under the right person 's name in the right colour for their shift . |
| 29 | ‘ All we had to do was take a basketful of poison-tipped bamboos into the mountains and stake them diagonally into the ground , right across the width of the valley . |
| 30 | Hope perceived this as acutely as anyone else ; he had experienced being called a black bastard , being physically abused , being spat at , being excluded . |