Example sentences of "a [noun] has [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergeant Major , you 've been in the Army for about nigh on twenty years now , do you think that a soldier has to be able to cope with that sort of taunting and name calling when he 's on the streets of Belfast for example . |
| 2 | ‘ We feel a defender has to be able to defend well first and foremost and that was n't the best part of Jeff 's game . |
| 3 | ‘ We feel a defender has to be able to defend well first and foremost and that was n't the best part of Jeff 's game . |
| 4 | Furthermore , a stake has to be substantial enough and in good enough condition to prevent the tree from breaking its neck . |
| 5 | The test of incapacity should be either that contained in s94(2) ( where a judge has to be satisfied of the incapacity ) or that in the wider provision of s145(1) ( where the patient is " a person suffering or appearing to be suffering from mental disorder " ) . |
| 6 | If a window has to be tailor-made , you must expect to pay for it if it does n't fit ! |
| 7 | A teacher has to be conscious of the different between an error and a slip . |
| 8 | In general terms , some idea of the standard deviation of a variate has to be available from past experience and the acceptable width of confidence interval must be stated . |
| 9 | A student has to be versatile enough to evade an attack by stepping , hopping or jumping to the side , while slipping into another more advantageous position in order to counter-strike . |
| 10 | Such a role has to be teacher-driven . |
| 11 | To ensure that the desired number of sons reach adulthood — allowing for miscarriage , stillbirth , infant death and , of course , daughters — a woman has to be pregnant as many times as possible . |
| 12 | A topic has to be definite because of its function of setting the framework for interpreting the sentence as a whole . |
| 13 | The question of whether the existence of a mistake has to be apparent from a speaking decision was raised in Dean v Prince [ 1953 ] Ch 590 , where , at first instance , the judge held that he could look at documents other than the auditors ' certificate and the balance sheet and that cross-examination of the auditors would be allowed . |
| 14 | A mistake has to be fundamental to constitute a sufficiently serious breach of contract , such as the expert making his decision about the wrong subject-matter . |
| 15 | The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ; |
| 16 | Where a spar has to be flexible , and is bent by a tensioning line , it is often known as a ‘ bow ’ , or ‘ bender ’ . |
| 17 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 18 | Any company involved in such a scheme has to be brave , Mr Riley says . |
| 19 | Any company involved in such a scheme has to be brave , Mr Riley says . |
| 20 | To be effective , an innovation has to be simple and it has to be focused . |