Example sentences of "have a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Great Britain have never won the World Cup but after this summer 's titanic struggle for the Ashes and blessed with home advantage , Mal Reilly 's men will never have a better chance to take the trophy .
2 ‘ We may never have a better chance to conclude such a wide-ranging agreement .
3 ‘ We may never have a better chance to conclude such a wide-ranging agreement .
4 We 'd have a better chance to find reasonably paid jobs in London .
5 It promises to be a very close encounter , but North will not have a better chance to redress the balance against the runaway Ulster League winners .
6 ‘ If the mechanism holds up , we will have a better means to identify which toxin is involved , ’ adds Schutzer .
7 They could n't have a better time to do it .
8 I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended .
9 An executive might have a limited opportunity to see for himself/herself conditions in a foreign country .
10 On the one hand , it reinforces the argument that officials should have a general duty to provide reasons for decisions .
11 The idea that a minister should have a political associate to assist him is not new .
12 ( ‘ You 'll have a tidy sum to bring with you , Lily … ’
13 You must have a great deal to talk about . ’
14 Nevertheless , you 'll have a great deal to talk about within Congress and you 'll have a lot more time to do so .
15 The Bible does n't have a great deal to say about boys and girls going out with girls and boys .
16 So you would n't accept that your work is phallocentric , that it does n't have a great deal to say to women ?
17 Marx , although he did not have a great deal to say about the movement of individuals between classes , did on several occasions note the possible effects of such movement .
18 You 'll have a great deal to say to each other , wo n't you ?
19 Laura was greatly amused by Hockney but the pair did not have a great deal to say to one another .
20 121 , as to which Parke B. , in Cooper v. Parker ( 1855 ) 15 C.B. 828 , said , ‘ Whenever the question may arise as to whether Down v. Hatcher is good law , I should have a great deal to say against it , ’ yet there certainly are cases in which great judges have treated the dictum in Pinnel 's Case as good law .
21 If we were to have dialogue , if dialogue were to be opened between us and I am now talking about dialogue and not of debate , then erm it is only erm , I 'm certain that there would be a great deal to , to say to him from us on our part , and I am also sure that he will have a great deal to say .
22 The Collector suspected that the Bard 's success in this respect might have a great deal to do with the ballistic advantages stemming from his baldness .
23 Surprisingly enough , it may have a great deal to do with conveyancing .
24 It could be coincidental or it could have a great deal to do with it . ’
25 However , that would surely be a great pity , because project work should have a great deal to offer as a means of developing reading and other skills .
26 The second was a conviction that many of us had , that we do indeed have a great deal to offer , by way of expertise and consulting , from the campus .
27 I do not have a great deal to learn from such policy documents .
28 With Kosovo and Vojvodina under his belt and Montenegro to come ( perhaps after a referendum there leading to that republic 's formal incorporation into Serbia ) , he could have a respectable country to run .
29 ’ To give examples , he suggests that a kayak should have a jettisoning pod to prevent entrapment situations without making it clear that the buyer is unlikely to find one on the market .
30 ‘ Can I have a little time to think it over ? ’
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