Example sentences of "have got [to-vb] a [adv] " in BNC.

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1 and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison .
2 I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts .
3 I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts .
4 So if you 're marking the sound you 've got to give a little more air to it more wind .
5 We 've got to get a much better system of subsidising housing for everybody , so that those in real need get a bigger share of the cake than the people who are living in very big houses , with very big incomes , and getting tax relief at the higher rate .
6 I 've got to assimilate a much broader kind of spectrum outside the interests of climbers in national parks .
7 We 've got to make a quite simple decision .
8 Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market .
9 You 've got to have a sharp brain to work out the tactics and you 've got to have a very good technique , so it 's a demanding sport .
10 I think you need a lot of knowledge , especially nowadays when they 're insisting on all this national curriculum , you 've got to have a very broad ability .
11 And really and truly you 've got to have a very big piece of ground to need one of those have n't you ?
12 There are some artists whom you feel you have got to know a little after a one-hour interview .
13 and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two
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