Example sentences of "they [verb] to have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they prefer to have a choice ? |
| 2 | He adds that ‘ the natives of Mull are very careful to chew a piece … especially when they intend to have a drinking bout ’ . |
| 3 | If they intend to have a go , it 'll take weeks to organize , but that does n't matter . |
| 4 | Well I sort of gave them a choice , do they want to nominate who does overtime or do they want to have a cat or do they want to pay , get paid less and they said they 'll get paid less . |
| 5 | They tend to have a distinctive , pungent flavour and are quite different from other cheeses . |
| 6 | Most people are aware , for instance , that a major link between those who suffer heart attacks is that they tend to have a high level of cholesterol in the blood . |
| 7 | They tend to have a quality of immediacy and interest and they are , generally , believed . |
| 8 | They tend to have a consciousness of kind , a feeling of kinship with other group members . |
| 9 | Indeed , they tend to have a higher net output per employee than two of the major non-assisted areas ( the east Midlands and the West Midlands ) though the South-East and also East Anglia had higher productivity than all the assisted areas in 1971 . |
| 10 | They tend to have a lot more disk space than memory . |
| 11 | Unless they mean to have a marina here are they ? |
| 12 | They want to have a word with you . ’ |
| 13 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 14 | Both teams have lost their first game so a win tomorrow is vital if they want to have a realistic chance of making the play-offs . |
| 15 | The sheer fact that they want to have a go , they want to improve ; they want to look at their work is a very good thing . |
| 16 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 17 | They appear to have a stem : could they be related to the crinoids ? |
| 18 | Pupils soon grow weary of a parade of historical topics selected solely because they appear to have a popular appeal or relevance . |
| 19 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 20 | Talking of which , Neighbours ' twins Gillian and Gayle Blakeney ( pictured above , although which is which is anyone 's guess ) in Liverpool to prepare for this year 's Empire panto , Dick Whittington , say they hope to have a single cut by Christmas . |
| 21 | ‘ I first saw his pictures during the punk period and they seemed to have a similar punch , a thriller realism . ’ |
| 22 | They seemed to have a significance independent of the self-satisfied barristers and scurrying clerks who peopled them now . |
| 23 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 24 | They seemed to have a secret between them that I could n't share . ’ |
| 25 | They seemed to have a tendency to slide down it . |
| 26 | They seemed to have a good relationship , agree about most things , and never , never row — at least , not in front of the children . |
| 27 | They seemed to have a show every week or , if not , were invariably guests on other comedians ' shows or the light relief on those interminable chat shows . |
| 28 | ‘ They seemed to have a pretty good idea about what it might be . |
| 29 | They deserve to have a father around . ’ |
| 30 | Above and bottom left : These Long-finned Koi were pictured in the USA , where they seem to have a taste for the more exotic coldwater fish and none of our traditional fears about ‘ breaking the rules ’ . |