Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bike has to be roadworthy and under 20 years old . |
| 2 | The text has to be short , not more than two thousand words . |
| 3 | I feel the short story has to be cohesive ; in a novel , there 's more room , the tone can change . |
| 4 | The masses are usually characterised by Class 2 residues , which the governing elite has to be able to manipulate for its own purposes . |
| 5 | Pareto is clear that political activity is not necessarily a moralising activity ; on the contrary , the governing elite has to be able and willing to use violence , corruption , guilt and deceit to ensure public order , national independence and social conditions for the growth of national prosperity . |
| 6 | Just as change has to be acceptable if there is to be success in implementing it , so training for management has to be acceptable . |
| 7 | The programmer has to be aware right from the initial design stage of the implications of the program design in terms of memory and speed requirements , and must be aware of techniques for optimizing any combination of these factors that is required . |
| 8 | Power is lacking , and the user has to be patient to get results , but it is difficult to complain for the average selling price of just over £60 . |
| 9 | The kitchen has to be ready for anything . ’ |
| 10 | Faith has to be persistent . |
| 11 | For the best results , the framework has to be strong enough to support itself and two thicknesses of 12mm plasterboard . |
| 12 | These salts need to have a high ‘ Biological Availability ’ ie the horse has to be able to efficiently digest and absorb the minerals . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , none of the superpowers have been willing to say that they would not actually use these weapons in a second nuclear strike , on the grounds that for the deterrent to be credible the other side has to be convinced that a first nuclear strike would result in nuclear retaliation . |
| 14 | The agent has to be external and never within themselves . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In order to be effective , the level of intervention to regulate corporate crime has to be organizational rather than individual . |
| 17 | Synchronised movement is critical , so the command has to be brief and so timed by a delayed ‘ one-and- pull sort of order . |
| 18 | The waves are transverse , which means that the direction of oscillation has to be perpendicular to the direction of motion of the wave . |
| 19 | The funerary archaeologist has to be certain of the differences between desiccation and chemical preservation : embalming . |
| 20 | What can be so easy as this when the critic has to be responsible for nothing ? |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | The sub-schema DDL has to be compatible with Cobol ( or the chosen language ) as it will be embedded in it . |
| 24 | Why does everyone think emotion has to be messy ? |
| 25 | Any action has to be additional to member states ' own policies ; it has to take into account the views of the region ; it has to be adopted unanimously by the Council , and the European Parliament ( EP ) can veto it . |
| 26 | ‘ A successful club has to be busy all the time . |
| 27 | Hame Special & Sunburst Archtop Question : does an instrument have to be old before it can produce a vintage tone ? |
| 28 | The bid had to be hostile , and Tiphook , since it needed a rights issue to pay for its part of the deal , had to become a joint-bidder . |
| 29 | To do this successfully , the soldier had to be ready : he had to train in military skills which he might be called upon to use . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal in Brown [ 1985 ] Crim LR 212 widened the Collins definition by holding that the entry had to be effective , but need not be substantial . |