Example sentences of "have [verb] [is] [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 I 'm now going to say what you should 've done is write a bit more down on your short-term programmes .
10 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
11 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 !
12 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 .
13 ‘ Then what I 'll have to do is to get a confession from the real murderer . ’
14 Another thing you will have to do is have a BIG AFFAIR .
15 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 .
16 And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe .
17 So now what they 've done is playing a match .
18 Among all the fuss about income tax , I should like to point out that one of the best things the Conservatives have done is to allow a wife 's earnings to be taxed separately from her husband .
19 Consider in this light the following modification to one of the other examples given above ; all we have done is to add a group of things ( " kinds of images " ) of which the relevant phrase can be treated as a part : There are various kinds of images which can be explored .
20 All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged , take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes , make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans , and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual .
21 All you have to do is create a delicious family dish for four using naturally tender New Zealand Lamb .
22 All you have to do is create a batch file PERIOD.BAT containing the lines ECHO .
23 ‘ What we have to do is create a culture in which appointing women to senior jobs is easier , ’ he says .
24 The better mousetrap All you have to do is build a better version of brand X and the world will beat a path to your door .
25 All you have to do is hire a plane out of here and go back south .
26 The revolutionary ‘ heat up ’ technology means all you have to do is press a button and fifteen minutes later you 'll have a perfectly warmed bottle .
27 All you have to do is make a sufficiently methodical presentation and you can get away with it . ’
28 Erm , all you have to do is dial a phone number that 's .
29 All you have to do is send a signed statement from your pacer(s) together with a receipt from the charity , and Joss will send you a tankard .
30 If you want to get hold of the Mega Disk in 5.25-inch format , all you have to do is send a cheque or postal order for £1 ( made payable to PC Wise Ltd ) to : PC Wise Ltd , Dowlais Top Business Park , Dowlais , Merthyr Tydfil , Mid Glamorgan CF48 2YY .
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