Example sentences of "a [noun] have [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travel in the UK was unlimited though a case had to be made for every European exhibition other than the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta , and most trips to the United States had to be funded privately or tied in with a conference or some other event that would cover the cost of the trip . |
| 2 | A case has to be made , therefore , for seasonally adjusting the monthly figures and for excluding school-leavers . |
| 3 | It was at this point , with Ferrari flushed with success , and as usual — like an Italian after a filling bowl of pasta — somnolent in regard to the future , that Montezemolo went back to Fiat and a successor had to be found . |
| 4 | A decision had to be made ; or maybe it already had been made by Copper , because if he had decided to lie down before I could get back to him his leg would have been broken irreparably . |
| 5 | One major issue on which a decision had to be taken was the route . |
| 6 | After graduation I worked in London for a couple of years , but in 1985 a decision had to be made : my husband had just finished a sixmonth intensive training course at the Thatching Advisory Service in Berkshire . |
| 7 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 8 | And when William came back from Germany and a decision had to be made about his education , he argued that it made sense to send him to the state school , the same as Preston . |
| 9 | We had so many articles that a decision had to be taken . |
| 10 | A decision had to be made … soon . |
| 11 | A decision had to be made . |
| 12 | Now in the case of Vietnam , a decision had to be made to intervene or not to intervene . |
| 13 | During the turn-off , there is time for a reassessment of the height remaining relative to trees and buildings , and a decision has to be made either to continue turning to make a low circuit , or to turn back into wind after using up a little more height ( this is known as an S-turn ) . |
| 14 | I 'd lusted after these peaks for some time , but a decision has to be made about how to get at them . |
| 15 | If a decision has to be made in April 1992 , then South Africa has some way to go yet before proving its case . |
| 16 | In a shift operation , a decision has to be taken as to what is to happen at each end of the shifted pattern . |
| 17 | For example , if pottery from a pit is said to be of a particular date by the specialist , a decision has to be taken as to how , if at all , that date relates to the pit in which the pottery was found . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes a decision has to be made to offer no evidence during the course of the trial ; and similarly pleas of guilty may be tendered to lesser counts . |
| 19 | A decision has to be made whether or not to launch the new product . |
| 20 | In very large organizations , where a divisionalized structure may have developed because of product or geographical reasons , for example , a decision has to be made about splitting the marketing activities between the divisions and corporate headquarters . |
| 21 | For example , where a decision has to be made quickly then it may be more appropriate to tell an individual what to do rather than persuade him . |
| 22 | Now it 's actually upon us and a decision has to be made … ’ |
| 23 | Quite often a decision has to be made whether to go for quantity or quality . |
| 24 | Complexities arise in the usage of tense , time adverbs and other time-deictic morphemes wherever there is a departure from this assumption , e.g. in letter writing , or the pre-recording of media programmed In that event , a decision has to be made about whether the deictic centre will remain on the speaker and CT , as in ( 51 ) , or will be projected on the addressee and RT , as in ( 52 ) ( Fillmore , 1975 ) : ( 51 ) a . |
| 25 | The other way in which addressees are typically referred to , namely by titles of address , also causes agreement problems — a decision has to be made between second or third person agreement , and , where relevant , between which titles of address can co-occur with which degree of respect encoded in verbal agreements ( Levinson , 1979b ) . |
| 26 | It was the site where such a building had to be , if buildings there were at all . |
| 27 | How close to the event does a writer have to be ? |
| 28 | Cash or a cheque has to be produced to pay a rate demand ; in contrast , VAT is absorbed in the price of a commodity or service and most people pay income tax through a PAYE system which means that money is deducted before it is received . |
| 29 | How safe does a drug have to be before it receives a certificate ? |
| 30 | That is why at any meeting of the council of a London borough when the mayor is absent a chairman has to be elected by the council to preside at the meeting . |