Example sentences of "have [prep] be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The telephone has to be manned 24 hours a day , 7 days a week , so when it is my turn on duty ( at night or at the weekends ) , answering the phone occupies much of my time . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the banks can only be advanced , so selecting from bank five to bank four means the pedal has to be pressed four times . |
| 3 | ‘ Something has to be resolved one way or the other , ’ Cabochon said , expending a vast amount of mental energy mustering concern for the group . |
| 4 | In the end the attack had had to be postponed forty-eight hours , so that , once again , the advantage of a sychronised effort on both sides of the Meuse was lost . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 6 | The idea of a referendum had been supported by a petition with 516,000 signatures ; any such referendum would have to be held five months before the elections , planned for June 1992 . |
| 7 | The amendment , originally moved by Lord Ferrers in the House of Lords , required that if any Commons vote on a matter devolved to Scotland was passed by the votes of Scottish MPs , then a second vote on the matter would have to be taken two weeks after the first . |
| 8 | The picture of the fuel cycle now emerging at the inquiry suggests that large quantities of spent fuel from nuclear power stations are going to have to be stored three times : first underwater in ponds at each power station ; secondly , at the new repository , and thirdly , after reprocessing — until such time as the British government decides how to dispose of high level nuclear waste . |
| 9 | Galleries had to be cleared 36 times , which must have accounted for some 35 minutes delay . |
| 10 | All this , besides the preliminary pasting of the wrapper , coloured paper and sandpaper had to be done 144 times for 2¼d , and even this is not all , for every drawer and case have to be fitted together , and the packets tied up with hemp . |
| 11 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 12 | In this , NPAs had to be given 1 month 's notice of a proposal by the applicant and the applicant had to show that the NPA 's agreement was obtained ( either to the scheme as originally planned or an agreed modified version ) when applying for agricultural grant to MAFF or WOAD . |
| 13 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 14 | When the 820 was finally accepted , the old channel cables and 600J were removed — this had to be completed 31 March as this was the date when the lease on the old machine expired . |
| 15 | And Test prop Kelvin Skerrett had to be replaced six minutes after the break . |
| 16 | As detailed on May 2 , the measures gave the government the technical right to dismiss strikers in these sectors and laid down that strikes in non-essential services had to be approved by an assembly of at least one-third of union members concerned , while in essential services strikes had to be announced 48 hours in advance and a minimum level of service ensured . |
| 17 | Now that report usually had to be filed 48 hours after he went down . |
| 18 | Bryan Robson 's injury , a legacy of previous combat , was diagnosed when he had to be substituted 20 minutes from the end of the first leg at Portsmouth only 13 days ago . |
| 19 | In order to help accommodate the costs of the Navy 's new carrier , CVA 01 , and Polaris , and the RAF 's TSR 2 , such projects as the Army 's Blue Water artillery missile were cancelled in August 1962 ; and , despite the pressure on Army manpower , it was decided to run down the Gurkhas from 14,600 to 10,000 rather than cut any more British battalions — a decision that had to be reversed nine months later to meet the needs of the Borneo campaign . |
| 20 | The cases involved the states of Minnesota ( where both parents had to be informed 48 hours prior to an abortion ) , and Ohio ( where 24 hours ' notice to one parent was required ) . |
| 21 | The buses run on batteries which have to be charged fifteen minutes every hour and eleven hours at night . |
| 22 | Because these elections have to be organized three years running . |
| 23 | Doctors and Ambulancemen fear lives could be lost if seriously ill patients have to be ferried twenty-five miles for treatment . |