Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph had a simple clearance to make for Palace 's first goal and Segers should have held the cross that led to the second — I could have caught it myself . ’ |
| 2 | While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity . |
| 3 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 4 | The investment bank therefore had a powerful incentive to make sure its client won its bids , regardless of whether it was paying too much . |
| 5 | Is not it really the case that the Government do not care about training , that we have a disastrous training record and that it is high time that we had a Labour Government to tackle the problems ? |
| 6 | He said , however , that the commission had a legal obligation to respond to complaints it received , as in the case of Strathclyde , and had already taken steps to evaluate the substance of the complaint . |
| 7 | LORD WRIGHT : I think the jury should be directed by the judge that the respondent Association had a legal right to put the person 's name on the stop list , so long as they did so in order to promote the trade interests of the Association and its members and not with intent to injure , and so long as the money , fine or penalty demanded was reasonable and not extortionate . |
| 8 | Since a servant 's whole time belonged to the master or mistress , the housekeeper had a legal right to make this sort of demand , though various writers had asserted the need for servants to be allowed time to read and develop intellectually . |
| 9 | Citizens thus had a legal duty to reveal felonies known to them . |
| 10 | His career , which included three England caps , had a final honour to come : the Second Division Championship with Preston just before the war . |
| 11 | Teessiders had a final chance to visit the Gulf War veteran when she opened her hatches on Sunday . |
| 12 | Ebenezer Howard 's concept of the social city was of course essentially regional in territorial scope , and with the founding of Welwyn Garden City in 1920 , the advocates of planned satellites had a second success to record ( Purdom , 1925 ; Macfadyen , 1933 ) . |
| 13 | Unlike un-historical nations , Poland had a long history to recall and refurbish . |
| 14 | British officials denied the conditions were already virtually fulfilled by Serbia , saying that Mr Milosevic ‘ had a long way to go ’ before the EC would be satisfied . |
| 15 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 16 | They had a long way to go . |
| 17 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 18 | True , she probably still had a long way to go . |
| 19 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 20 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 21 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 22 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 23 | The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book . |
| 24 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
| 25 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 26 | Being a mere apprentice was boring and carried no cachet , and Lydia was dauntedly aware that she had a long way to go before she achieved the skills and ease of perfection . |
| 27 | They had a long way to go before that could happen . |
| 28 | Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go . |
| 29 | Anne : he had a long way to go do you think he 's done enough to survive ? |
| 30 | And erm you know I know that was one difficulty , that people had a long time to wait for repairs . |