Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was really a pleasant surprise to have your letter . |
| 2 | It is such a pleasant change to have such a loyal employee . |
| 3 | It is not unusual for a private company to have rigorous controls governing sale of shares , and this is so in Faber 's case , where the shareholdings break down evenly among employees , T S Eliot 's widow Valerie and the Faber family . |
| 4 | A terrific place to have breakfast in , but hopeless to cook in : no strainer , no grater , and not a knife sharp enough to cut a lemon . |
| 5 | But th there 's a s a strong campaign to have Cafe Direct taken by supermarkets and there 's a lot of people putting a lot of energy into this and , and at present it 's , it 's , it 's showing those results . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've always had a strong desire to have a real family . |
| 7 | A 15-YEAR campaign to have a new civic centre built in Lisburn is taking on a new urgency . |
| 8 | oh and took her off and David says to me she 's a bloody fool to have sent , says instead of keeping her mouth shut , she 's , there 's George claim nowt , you know what I mean ? |
| 9 | Is it fair for young pupils in an area controlled by a Labour council to have their prospects of good examination results considerably reduced ? |
| 10 | It was a strange thing to have said , an odd way to reassure her . |
| 11 | So speaking personally , of course when the work study man comes along , and he 's timing you lifting a spanner you know , to tighten a bolt , erm and things like this , er it 's a strange feeling to have someone standing looking over your shoulder and I personally er did n't see any need for that . |
| 12 | It was a strange sensation to have them on — more intimate than sleeping with his widow . |
| 13 | A controversial attempt to have part of Carnmoney Hill re-zoned to allow homes to be built has provoked a storm of protest from local people . |
| 14 | The clear beneficiary was Tony Benn , who immediately launched a six-month campaign to have himself elected as deputy leader instead of the hated Denis Healey , who was , in the opinion of many , the architect of the sell-out of socialist economic policy during the Wilson-Callaghan government . |
| 15 | It is not unknown for a suburban bureau to have a waiting list of potential volunteers , but in the main staff shortages appear to be a problem equally in suburban and inner-city areas . |
| 16 | For Christians ( inasmuch as Christians see a peculiar revelation to have taken place in Christ ) tend to interpret Christ 's words and actions in abstraction from any historical context , or , believing that God in Christ had a particular intention , they understand his words and actions in the light of later church history . |
| 17 | It was just a funny thing to have happened , after what you said . |
| 18 | Even if it is absolutely essential to have one to prune expenditure I hope you will get a free hand to have a dissolution in the autumn as we can not recover any revenue or any industry now without a tariff … |
| 19 | To be useful , a bistable needs to have more sophisticated access to its inputs . |
| 20 | It 's a perfect opportunity to have a swim . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And anyway , I 'm not criticising you ; you have a perfect right to have as many women here as you want to . ’ |
| 22 | Because urinating tends to wash out the urethra , and because the urethra can be such a rich source of diagnostic material , the doctors will always prefer a male patient to have held his urine , if possible , for three hours or more before attending for tests . |
| 23 | Australia and France are working on a joint convention to have Antarctica declared a world nature reserve and land of science . |
| 24 | It is unfair to the citizen , who is entitled in a democratic society to have the rules by which his life is to be regulated properly debated and scrutinized by his elected representatives . |
| 25 | For one with such a full programme it was good of Dr. Stewart to spend the whole day with us but she had expressed the wish to see as much as possible of our work and it was a tremendous pleasure to have her with us and for so many to have the opportunity of chatting with her . |
| 26 | It is a usual feature of such a comparison that there is a basic level of information which is common to most of the reviews , and it is the mark of a skilful critic to have worked in some personal assessment of works , or some individual response to the show as a whole . |
| 27 | Given what we know about the formation of new varieties of English in overseas colonies of Britain , we might expect a similar process to have taken place among Caribbean migrants living in Britain itself . |
| 28 | It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . |
| 29 | It 's a symbolic embarrassment to have man in a graveyard outside a church , not getting any sanctuary , especially when you consider not only that background you 've mentioned , Jesus himself actually said that he had nowhere to lay his head . |
| 30 | What a sad thing to have to say . |