Example sentences of "have [adv] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not the sum to hand , and can not raise it even by loan . |
| 2 | In this extended discussion the author defines the caring professions as those whose members have both a commitment to caring and a task to care . |
| 3 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 4 | You have n't a penny to your name . " |
| 5 | The truth is the bulk of the £250M shortfall in Poll Tax , a debt mountain that has steadily grown over three years , is owed not by rebels , but by people who have n't a penny to their name . |
| 6 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
| 7 | You have n't the guts to be a real doctor . |
| 8 | I have n't the answer to what an acceptable level of membership fee is but I 'm certain an ever increasing rate will never generate a party of mass membership . |
| 9 | He cites some of the outstanding performances in C&P — ‘ and we have quite a number to our credit . |
| 10 | We have then no reason to be surprised if the distinction between ascription and association in adjectives is overlooked or mistakenly supposed to be a matter of " nuances of meaning " , rather than being recognized as a systematic variation . |
| 11 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |