Example sentences of "have a [adj] [noun sg] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the various hand movements has a specific job to do , determined by range , angle , position and target . |
| 2 | If a body has a legal power to do X , it has authority to do it . |
| 3 | Some will think that a good community never lays down coercive rules except to enforce moral duties , and therefore that Mr. O'Brian should be made to compensate Mrs. McLoughlin if , but only if , he has a moral duty to do so . |
| 4 | ‘ Of the 65 per cent of companies not using credit insurance , half had no idea what it would cost as a percentage of total sales value , indicating that the industry has a real job to do explaining how little properly structured credit insurance can cost : often 0.5 per cent of turnover or less . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Michael has a great determination to do everything himself and get it right , ’ said Watkin . |
| 6 | Someone who has a lot of overt status has a great deal to do : their time and attention are very precious . |
| 7 | The very ubiquity of the mass media removes media as a whole system from the scope of positivist social analysis ; for how may we ‘ measure ’ the ‘ impact ’ of a social force which is omnipresent within social life and which has a great deal to do with constituting it ? |
| 8 | This subtle shift has a great deal to do with the current fashion accessory of an eligible husband rather than an eligible boss . |
| 9 | no , it was rationed , and er , talking about erm people 's taste having changed , I think the media has a great deal to do with that because when you look at things on television you can see how people |
| 10 | It is permissible to raise additional enquiries , and indeed , the buyer 's conveyancer has a professional duty to do so if there appear to be material omissions . |
| 11 | It also has a good deal to do with how we look . |
| 12 | Each of the participating agencies has a different job to do , a different area of activity , and different interests and concerns . |
| 13 | It shows someone in obvious mental distress and gives a strong message that the nurse has a positive job to do . |
| 14 | I ca n't find anyone who actually likes this offset idea , and you really do n't want to spend your playing career justifying why your instrument looks so wacky ; left to hang around the user 's neck , it does actually rest neck-up , as promised , although I would think that this has a fair bit to do with the strap button being under the top horn and slightly back towards the body . |
| 15 | If you can relate back to branches , everybody was just running around , everybody 's had a specific task to do , you were just running round like a , |
| 16 | Brian Howes , President of Kimberly-Clark 's European service and industrial sector said : ‘ The board was impressed by our partnership with the local community which has had a great deal to do with the success of our North Wales operations in establishing an award winning site of manufacturing excellence . ’ |
| 17 | It may not be a good reason to us , but they must have had a good reason to do it , either family-wise or tension-wise , or because of life in general . |
| 18 | In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses . |
| 19 | The Collector suspected that the Bard 's success in this respect might have a great deal to do with the ballistic advantages stemming from his baldness . |
| 20 | Surprisingly enough , it may have a great deal to do with conveyancing . |
| 21 | It could be coincidental or it could have a great deal to do with it . ’ |
| 22 | So she can have a little bit to do |
| 23 | A misconception that exists about video recording of classes is that it is necessary to have a two-camera studio to do it . |
| 24 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 25 | I had a new curate to do my work — Arthur Nicholls , a young man of twenty-eight . |
| 26 | When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’ |
| 27 | Nevertheless the underlying sentiment had a good deal to do with Iraq 's inability to stand by the treaty it had signed with Britain at Portsmouth in 1948 , and resentment aroused by post-war developments in Palestine did little to help . |
| 28 | It had got up Rufus 's nose a bit , though Adam had a perfect right to do this . |
| 29 | You had a great desire to do something . |
| 30 | Susan did n't get up that day , so Breeze had a great deal to do . |