Example sentences of "have a [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 The governing party does n't really have a position in the country .
2 Can you imagine it comrades , you would have a position in which we attempt to put into place a bureaucratic list of people who are meant to be Labour supporters , they are n't Labour members .
3 May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ?
4 It rechristened the APT as the Abandoned Passenger Train and said that British technology had helped to develop the Exocet missile that sank Sheffield because the MoD , also ordering the missile from its French makers , insisted that British firms should have a share in the contract .
5 Louis was determined that Charles should have a share in the Frankish heartlands .
6 Pat had come to him and asked to be able to buy the shop — not with any money she had available at that time , but on a never-never basis , letting him have a share in the takings until the value of the business had been reached .
7 We ca n't have a conversation in the hallway , I walk him in backwards .
8 We did have a telephone in the house .
9 I ca n't play one personally but I do have a lady in my band who 's who can , very very good accordion player who assures me she can play a zither as well you see .
10 Cauthen could have a banker in the opening event in Golan Heights .
11 If I can not go to my own home , let me have a home in some country where my people will not die so fast .
12 I do have a home in England and I have a job .
13 And they 'll have a home in Nairobi .
14 Mm that 's gon na have a have a thingy in it that
15 mm yes , but we did n't have a tail in the sea then did you ?
16 so I decided I 'd have a go in a factory , aha , and I come in it was over in the other place , the noise was unbelievable , really unbelievable .
17 One of the things I again would like to see in schools is that sort of approach , which brings out what language is really about , and I think that that 's an exciting and possibly quite unexpected outcome of bringing computers into schools , but it will require that we do n't simply think of it as being ‘ oh , let's have a micro in the science lab ’ ; it is going to be as the government seems to recognise , a step involving curriculum design , involving helping teachers _ really , really helping them in a strongly supportive way — to do something which is , I would say , revolutionary .
18 Can I just say from a practical point of view , primary classes are fairly static sort of places , you 've got the teacher in the class all day , and if they say well let's have a micro in our classroom today that can be done , whereas a secondary teacher tends to wander round the school with a load of books under one arm and a bag of equipment under the other arm , and they 've also got to carry a micro round or move a micro from one classroom to another — it 's physically difficult , so in practice the primary teachers seem to find it easier to fit in with micros .
19 I 'm absolutely convinced it can , and particularly now that you 'll have a government in East Germany which will be , on all the important questions , in total accord with the government in West Germany .
20 At the in which he is involved and does have a part in shaping : these processes will appear to him not as broad generalities , but as a collection of micro-processes , the technicalities and particularities of daily life .
21 He is a natural actor and I thought that he might have a part in the play .
22 Loretta was grateful for Bridget 's assumption that she would have a part in whatever action they decided upon ; she was a more reliable friend than Tracey , she thought to herself .
23 Lack of rigorous endoscopic criteria defining variceal haemorrhage such as those described by Buset et al , lack of standardisation for the time of entry , non-uniform management of the variceal haemorrhage during the whole study period , analysis of either the first or the recurrent episodes of haemorrhage and differences in patient sampling or variables recorded may all have a part in explaining the contradictions among some of the studies published on this matter .
24 Do you have a man in your life ? ’
25 ‘ So you do n't have a man in your life ? ’
26 Many of my tutors have said that one of the most salutary of their experiences has been to work with a good adult class , which starts with no preconceptions , does n't necessarily have a qualification in mind , and ask the kind of questions which would tend to be asked say in Swift 's Gulliver Travels .
27 So can we have a decision in principle whether we 're going to do this or not ?
28 The worst hit firms might decide that they must have a reduction in pay in order to stay in business .
29 ‘ Look , man , Airborne does n't have a base in town .
30 It will appeal to people who would like to live in a large country house but who ca n't at the moment , and also to foreign customers who do n't have a base in this country
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