Example sentences of "have to have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people .
2 If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it .
3 They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school .
4 This means that the ‘ brain' of the synth has to have a certain amount of waveform information from the guitar before it can determine an actual pitch and synthesise that information accordingly .
5 On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers .
6 The general format and size of advertisements has been specified by National Marketing and must be adhered to ; it includes the KPMG logo at both top and bottom of the details and therefore the advertisement has to have a minimum size of 2 columns wide and 8 cm deep .
7 She has to have a new crystal . ’
8 There is always a closed circle of suspects ( so there can be no question of someone unconnected with the setting coming in from outside and doing the deed , as might well happen in " real life " ) and each of these suspects has to have a credible motive as well as reasonable opportunity of committing the crime and reasonable access to the means with which it was committed .
9 ‘ If the law has to have a proper effect then landlords and breweries should know that to serve young people like this , they are in danger of losing their licences . ’
10 The flash has to have a manual override to be useful , as it will serve only to tell the operator when a photograph has been taken .
11 Furthermore , the objective threat posed by the Soviet Union and its own nuclear weapons means that the United States has to have a permanent war economy and that the people recognise this and vote for it .
12 He explained that every biscuit has to have a different flavour and must be new or improved , as Americans have a short attention span : ‘ The food here is a bit like the film industry ; you always have to come up with something else . ’
13 When Minton painted alongside students in the life class ( ‘ That was a marvellous adrenalin shot , ’ recalled Greaves ) he taught by example that a picture has to have a lively activity right up to the four edges of the canvas , and that if the background is treated merely as a secondary constituent to the model , areas of the canvas will become inert .
14 You do not always have to have a specific link to other items on the syllabus .
15 She 'd have to have a debriefing session with Edwin when they 'd gone .
16 ‘ Well , we 'll just have to have a male crone for today , ’ replied Miss Thorne in a dangerously quiet voice .
17 Clearly we would have to have a separate system for representing the presence of objects and their features that was not dependent on knowing their identity .
18 I shall have to have a long talk with the Lord beforehand . ’
19 There 'll have to have a ruddy cut down , over this staff over this community charge , there 've been trouble here next .
20 Mind you , you do n't have to do , with it being gas , you do n't have to have a solid thing
21 You do n't have to have a personal coach to put together a successful training schedule .
22 I wonder if they got that out , you 'll have to have a new cooker .
23 We 'll have to have a new carpet and different chairs and table .
24 You do n't have to have a new baby to need someone to talk to and if that is the case , I can still find you a sympathetic ear .
25 we 're gon na have to have a manual involvement or override there by the project coordinator to , to ,
26 you 'd have to have a huge sort of bureaucratic structure
27 And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold .
28 Mm why do they have to have a green field site and start again ?
29 No you do n't have to , there 's no , there 's no rea there 's no , there 's no thing that makes someone but it , it if you 're pissed off it does n't , you do n't have to have a special reason to be pissed off you can just be pissed off like you can just be annoyed , it 's like saying you 're annoyed when someone nicks your towels .
30 Did you have to have a different pinny every day then ?
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