Example sentences of "to have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
| 2 | Although North Korea was widely thought to have the technical expertise to produce nuclear weapons , many experts concluded that it would not have sufficient stocks of plutonium for a viable weapon until 1992 , and would not be in position to test such a device until 1995 . |
| 3 | Most claimants at the time of their appeal will be too troubled and hassled by the more practical day to day problems of their plight ever to have the emotional energy to study the nuts and bolts of the machinery by which their appeal will be processed . |
| 4 | I am particularly amused and pleased to have the emotional faucet turned off — no matter what other one you turn on . |
| 5 | it , it 's easier to have the global change things come out of the global and change things . |
| 6 | Would n't it be great to have the automatic exchange ? ’ |
| 7 | This is an unsatisfactory position when what he really wants is to have the defective goods repaired or replaced . |
| 8 | For economic and monetary union ( EMU ) , the commission is desperate to have the sole right of proposal in exchange-rate decisions and in policing macro-economic policy . |
| 9 | So they er would have done the same thing in those days , the children , and erm it fitted in to the easter holiday time to have the actual ploughing match , you see ? |
| 10 | Erm whereas at this stage the four of us could probably find accommodation which was n't that much more expensive erm but to have the actual focus for the for the local party . |
| 11 | London-based Hillsdown Holdings — which includes Buxted Chickens and Daylay Eggs — paid to have the six-acre grounds planted with trees and the pond tidied up . |
| 12 | But once families are committed to at least one child and all the disruptions of career and household which inevitably follow , they are then inclined to have the second child that most expect , and are expected , to produce . |
| 13 | Bill takes it through Sunday , he come back the they 're special door speakers and you 've got to have the front door because there 's a bar at back so these are special speakers that |
| 14 | thing is too , at Christmas we used to have the erm , when we lived in Buxton we used to have the front bedroom where they , do you remember Paul , and the bay underneath it ? |
| 15 | A photograph taken in Picasso 's studio in the summer of 1908 shows an earlier , apparently more or less completed version of the Three Women executed in a style which makes use of rough , almost violent striations , used to emphasize the different areas to the sides of the figures , while the figures themselves appear to have the rough-hewn bulkiness of much of the most characteristic contemporary African-influenced figure pieces . |
| 16 | As the dogsbody sixth assistant to George Oke at Fulwell , he performed his chores with a furious zeal , not because he wanted the members to have the shiniest shoes and the best sand-papered hickory shafts but because these jobs were good exercises to strengthen his hands and arms . |
| 17 | The assessment should not trigger off frantic practising , but the ward sister can arrange for the student to have the relevant experience . |
| 18 | Before you embark on the decoration , however , you need to have the practical considerations firmly in mind . |
| 19 | In the Department of Public Relations we were fortunate to have the temporary services of U Kyaw Tha of the Burma Civil Service to undertake all this planning . |
| 20 | You know he 'd far prefer to have the cheap workforce that you could tell exactly and appear to know what he 's talking about , whereas the older men knew that he knew absolutely nothing . |
| 21 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 22 | All rabbits carry fleas and it is most significant that does , as the result of being in recent contact with a nest , always appear to have the greatest infestations . |
| 23 | Antiarrhythmic drugs — Among type 1a antiarrhythmic drugs , quinidine seems to have the greatest potential for causing torsades de pointes and is estimated to produce syncope in 0.5–4.0% of patients as a result of this tachyarrhythmia . |
| 24 | Although multimedia is rapidly changing the way computers look and feel , it is in communications where it is likely to have the greatest impact . |
| 25 | Labour and plant disruption is likely to have the greatest impact on the contractor 's cost but it is invariably the most difficult to substantiate and evaluate . |
| 26 | 4 What is Gene Kelly 's dance ‘ partner ’ in the splashing Singin' In The Rain sequence ? 5 During a dream sequence , Gene Kelly falls for a beautiful dark-haired dancer , said to have the greatest legs in Hollywood , Cyd C******* . |
| 27 | This time , the black-shirted image with the nondescript French background , the self-made grandfather who claimed to have the finest lawn in France , contented himself with a routine show of rhetoric . |
| 28 | ‘ This equipment will prove very useful in testing premature babies we suspect might have hearing problems but who are not able to have the normal tests , ’ he said . |
| 29 | That is , I am caused , perhaps by a deformation of my visual cortex , to have the visual experience which others describe as seeing something green in colour when the thing in question is what gives rise to their seeing it as red . |
| 30 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |