Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will have to invest in an onion grader someday . |
| 2 | What about which year joined as alternative to years of Membership , since some may have joined as an Associate ? |
| 3 | Reputedly the smallest of England 's parish churches , it may have developed from an anchorite 's cell in the eleventh or twelfth century , and since that time had drawn many pilgrims to its almost inaccessible woodland site . |
| 4 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Pogo would just have to wait for an answer . |
| 6 | He implied that a united Germany might have to wait on an end to the division of Europe . |
| 7 | 205. ( 1 ) ( ix ) Land includes … land of any tenure , and mines and minerals , whether or not held apart from the surface , buildings or parts of buildings ( whether the division is horizontal , vertical or made in any other way ) and other corporeal hereditaments ; also a manor , an advowson , and a rent and other incorporeal hereditament , and an easement , right , privilege , or benefit in , over , or derived from land ; but not an undivided share in land ; and " mines and minerals " include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land , and powers of working and getting the same but not an undivided share thereof ; and " manor " includes a lordship , and reputed manor or lordship ; and " hereditament " means any real property which on an intestacy occurring before the commencement of this Act might have devolved upon an heir … |
| 8 | Lisa would just have to cope for an hour or two . |
| 9 | So they do n't have to go to an advertising agency or a graphics designer to have it all drawn up we 'll do that for them . |
| 10 | Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions : |
| 11 | We shall have to go in an aeroplane for a whole day , can you imagine ? |
| 12 | For instance , a pupil with hemianopia or a diminished visual field may have to sit at an angle rather than square to the blackboard in order to use remaining vision usefully to discriminate what is on it . |
| 13 | The large temples , Knossos , Phaistos , Zakro and Mallia , must have depended on an income of agricultural produce from fairly extensive rural hinterlands , from many villages , many estates . |
| 14 | The class teacher 's general class management and discipline must be good so that the support teacher does not have to work in an atmosphere of excessive noise , nor for that matter in one of silence . |
| 15 | Mind you Oxford should have won by an avalanche . |
| 16 | The substitution of a term of detention under section 53(2) would have amounted to an increase in the sentence , which is permissible only on a reference by the Attorney General under Criminal Justice Act 1988 , s.36 . |
| 17 | However , if you do not sell it and you do not have enough income to pay the weekly charge , we would have to come to an agreement with you on how to overcome the difficulty . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid the tide has now turned , and er , this negotiation will have to come to an end . |
| 19 | If they wished to prevent Labour forming a government , they would have to come to an arrangement with Baldwin , rather than any other Conservative ; and since the Liberals had only just fought an election opposing Baldwin 's policy of Protection , this would be a difficult course for them to take . |
| 20 | If the bridge ceased to be economical as a business the owners would have to come to an arrangement with the council |
| 21 | How could life have originated in an atmosphere which — by today 's standards — seems so inimical to life ? |
| 22 | It must have looked like an inkwell . |
| 23 | Although separated from her husband of 11 years , Diana 's loneliest chapter may have come to an end . |
| 24 | The Soviet Union is too dependent and too much part of the world economy to return to hibernation , but another period of infatuation may have come to an end . |
| 25 | The ‘ Far Eastern ’ memorandum was a superb and elegant paper even though , in its abstract idealizations of how colonialism should have come to an end , it sounded rather like a secular Sermon on the Mount . |
| 26 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 27 | It was not affected by the surrender of part of the premises , however large , although it would be terminated by a surrender of the whole , as then the term would have come to an end . |
| 28 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 29 | Technically , it may have come to an end , but recovery will be slow , sluggish and patchy . |
| 30 | If more would have gone back then the strike would have come to an end quicker cos , I thought more would have gone back then , but all the lads in they stayed out and nobody went in to work . |