Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Unfortunately we have had to disappoint a large number of capable girls , causing the governors a great deal of anguish . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Jobbers often faced one-way markets in which they would either have to buy a greater number of shares than they had sold ( go ‘ long ’ ) or they had bought ( go ‘ short ’ ) . |
| 5 | The only aspect of the lessons which I can really remember was having to learn a substantial number of Euclid 's theorems on geometry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The client then had to ring a different number . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |