Example sentences of "are [adj] to have the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The more readily answered questions , nothing wrong with it , it 's great but again er you fall into patterns do n't you I 'm sure you on training courses we know that er one or two people are content to have the answer , so what will the rest of us do ?
2 He went on ‘ We would have preferred to build in incremental stages , but we are delighted to have the opportunity of starting from Caernarfon as well as extending from Porthmadog . ’
3 The left is putting up candidates for only a handful of school districts in bohemian areas like lower Manhattan ; and even in these areas , few teachers are likely to have the courage to teach the rainbow curriculum .
4 Only women in class II and ( especially ) class I are likely to have the accommodation , income , and confidence to employ any kind of residential domestic service : au pairs , housekeepers , or nannies .
5 The library doubles as a gentleman 's room , or , failing that ( for Kerr remarks elsewhere that ‘ the ladies are not exactly excluded ’ from it ) , they are sure to have the billiard-room to themselves , while the young of the sex may ‘ do as they like ’ in the odd room .
6 Similarly , general practitioners are unlikely to have the management resources to contract for the full range of services required by a local population .
7 ‘ We are excited to have the Wood Group as a large equity holder , ’ he said .
8 It 's about a London-based detective and his TV bosses are eager to have the rest of the scripts .
9 By reason of their ownership rights , and given the ‘ traditional logic of ownership ’ , it is taken that the shareholders are entitled to have the company run in their interests : it is their company .
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