Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 2 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 3 | And their bride has to wear er , all in red and er the bridegroo er groom has to wear a long costume with a red big flowers in front i aha and then they get married and there 's erm band , the Chinese traditional band with drums and trumpets blowing all the time and er , all the guests have a very nice time . |
| 4 | Perhaps if it 's a bad case the patient has to wear a special boot or keep the leg held straight with iron braces . ’ |
| 5 | But throughout all this teaching , this familiarising and making intelligible , the teacher has to preserve a certain distance . |
| 6 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 7 | Each team in England has to include a lay member . |
| 8 | Hence , to reflect Renaissance preoccupations adequately he has to include a wider variety of genres — and a wider variety of poets , for that matter — than the traditional canon allows . |
| 9 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
| 10 | For a start he has to find a receptive female — not always easy with animals as solitary and spread about the forest as orangs . |
| 11 | One therefore has to find a new theory that combines general relativity with the uncertainty principle . |
| 12 | I still regret it , but I 'm afraid the Prime Minister has to appear a great deal on the media . |
| 13 | In approaching this case the court first stated that there were many cases where a court has to construe a standard clause in , for example , a charter party , and there may be some earlier decisions on the same clause or on a clause which is in terms which are indistinguishable . |
| 14 | Each brothel has to obtain a special licence from the police and the names of the women must also be registered . |
| 15 | The skilled interviewer has to establish a fine balance between being receptive — allowing the client to relax and talk freely — and being in control — so that the client is guided into talking about fruitful areas , and also that the interview is closed on time . |
| 16 | Steve Cram , the Olympic 1500 metres silver medallist in 1984 , still has to launch a serious challenge for his place in the team but took another solid step on the road to Barcelona with an encouraging relay leg at Sheffield . |
| 17 | Whiskas Kitten Food is highly digestible , important when a small stomach has to meet a large energy need . |
| 18 | Alongside this , one has to set a high degree of tolerance , dependency , held by unskilled workers [ whom we interviewed ] . |
| 19 | The support worker has to create a delicate balance between giving advisers the ‘ answer ’ for a client and directing them to the relevant part of the information system . |
| 20 | The decoder has to create a cognitive space in which the deictic elements and terms can be realised indexically . |
| 21 | First he has to create a neutral police force . |
| 22 | Management has to create a workable structure for collaboration , taking into account the objectives of all the various interest groups or ‘ stakeholders ’ in the organisation . |
| 23 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 24 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 25 | So the law has to play a little con-trick . |
| 26 | The freewheeling diode has to withstand a reverse voltage equal to the d.c. supply voltage when the transistor is conducting and it must conduct a peak forward current equal to the rated phase current when the transistor first turns off . |
| 27 | Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much . |
| 28 | Wheelchair-bound and with a high percentage of skin loss that has worn away most of her fingers and toes , she has to endure a 90-minute ordeal of having her dressings changed every morning . |
| 29 | Tom Clarke , meanwhile , has to persuade a hard core in his own party that acting in concert with the SNP on certain occasions does not equate to dancing with wolves . |
| 30 | 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 . |