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

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1 Did you have to have a different pinny every day then ?
2 The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation .
3 Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on
4 For plotting a course you had to have an accurate speedometer .
5 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 .
6 ‘ The whole cultural situation in Oxford is such that you have to have a certain degree of power or influence of money to be admitted to any social sphere , ’ he fumes .
7 He was saying that in order to have a greater life , you have to have a strong awareness of death .
8 ‘ To be a manager you have to have a strong personality , and I 'm not really like that unless I 've had 23 pints .
9 There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed .
10 I think the main ingredient for success is that you have to have a good sense of timing .
11 To do this you have to have a good understanding of the materials .
12 Now unle now unless there are any participants that want , really burning to make a comment , er I feel that we have settled , well we 've had enough discussion on little A , I 've got enough , well I 've got enough from you in terms of your views about size of settlement , and Mr Brighton has pointed me again in the direction of his submission about er the definition of an integrated and balanced community , I would like to know , er from Mr Davis whether he concurs with that sort of interpretation , and I have a feeling that we have also had an expression , generally , that at the moment one settlement is probably appropriate , if you have to have a new settlement .
13 ‘ To be good at the game you have to have a reasonable level of intelligence , ’ said Cathy Williams , a teacher from the Percy Hedley School in Newcastle which caters for children with cerebral palsy .
14 To promote OTC products successfully through the high street chains nowadays , you have to have a substantial turnover ( £10–15m or so ) to be able to afford the TV advertising .
15 That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will .
16 Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable .
17 When you are shooting for high profits , you have to have a small entrepreneurial team who can project their way forward , not today but tomorrow .
18 To understand life today , you have to have a great sense of humour .
19 You have to have a massive show of force to contain or control any riotous situation , ’ says the mayor .
20 For example if you go for a Peter Stuyvesant activity holiday , you have to have a medical first .
21 You have to have a little bit of presence about you ; and that 's what made me here .
22 Where if you 're fairly new , you do n't know them people , you might be thinking you have to have a timed appointment to go in with , where you 'll save a lot of time by just building up , and working on your existing like that .
23 And while the rewards in terms of job satisfaction have not reached the dizzy heights of the 1980s , Mr Wilson stresses : ‘ You have to have a thick skin and be prepared to stick with it through the bad times as well as the good . ’
24 If you have to have a special diet for health reasons , and find you can not afford the price , make sure you are claiming the supplementary benefits to which you are entitled .
25 you can go over to Africa on a day trips from down there , but you have to have a full passport you ca n't
26 so it 's , you have to have a full passport , well we were gon na do it this year but Robert and Wendy only had a yearly passport
27 You have to have an equal diameter mass from the nut to the bridge , because otherwise the vibrating mass is not equal and the string just wo n't divide equally and harmonically .
28 You have to have an epic car if you 're going on an epic journey . ’
29 Officially , since you have to have an official existence , you have a nationality of which you are either proud or fond .
30 So who says you have to have an able body to be an able seaman or seawoman .
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