Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [art] [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restaurant manager has to know the estimated number of guests to be expected in the restaurant and in order to prepare the meals the chef needs to be informed of any special requirements . |
| 2 | I I 'm certainly not My Lords er un er er an unqualified admirer of all our procedures in local Government , but I do believe that before central Government is further down the road of , of erm usurping functions which are now those of local government it has to persuade a large number of people that its own performance justifies such a course and myself I do n't believe it does . |
| 3 | It has also had to keep an undisclosed number of doubtful loans before offloading the unit , Kleinwort Benson Australia , to the California-based bank Security Pacific . |
| 4 | ‘ Unfortunately we have had to disappoint a large number of capable girls , causing the governors a great deal of anguish . |
| 5 | You can then eliminate all but the genuinely suitable applicants without having to interview an enormous number of people in person . |
| 6 | Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture . |
| 7 | The only aspect of the lessons which I can really remember was having to learn a substantial number of Euclid 's theorems on geometry . |
| 8 | But you do n't necessarily have to say the whole number . |
| 9 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 10 | Another is that gravity does not seem to be renormalizable ; in order to obtain finite answers , it seems that one may have to make an infinite number of infinite subtractions with a correspondingly infinite number of undetermined finite remainders . |
| 11 | It is hoped that they do , because it can be shown that theories that include gravity are either finite or nonrenormalizable ; that is , if one has to make any infinite subtractions , then one will have to make an infinite number of them with a corresponding infinite number of undetermined remainders . |
| 12 | The minister also said that there would be no financial or budgetary disadvantage whatsoever to any GP who had to treat a large number of chronically ill patients . |
| 13 | The client then had to ring a different number . |
| 14 | None of these methods of book provision are suitable for the British public library authorities created by the 1972 reorganization of local government , in which bookstocks have to serve a large number of service points ( usually more than 20 , sometimes as many as 70 ) scattered over a very large area . |
| 15 | For the survival of a society you have to have a certain number at one extreme and , therefore , a certain number at the other extreme , for without cowards there are no VCs . |
| 16 | The spreadsheet ca n't handle an interest rate of 0% , so you have to insert a small number , such as 0.00000001% , in cell B9 . |
| 17 | But if we want to delivery good , high quality services , we have to employ the right number of people to do it , and Queenie is just , you know , talking well near nonsense . |