Example sentences of "be [adj] have [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be useful to have one member of staff clearly designated as the patient 's primary therapist . |
| 2 | If you have to stand for a while at work or in a queue , it would be helpful to have one leg behind the other with the feet at about 45 degrees to each other . |
| 3 | It 's much better to be able to have one telephone number of somebody to ring up and say , ‘ Hey , the screen 's gone blank and I do n't know what to do next , ’ and have somebody , initially over the telephone , giving you advice , helping you to get round the problem , or , if necessary , sending round a service engineer quite smartly . |
| 4 | Well it would be nice to have two copies on yours if that 's alright . |
| 5 | It 's too hot and humid during the summer , and all the labs close down after May , although it would be nice to have two apartments , one here and one there in the winter . |
| 6 | It may be necessary to have two organisations to separate the charitable activities from the non-charitable , but even this need not be costly . |
| 7 | ‘ And would n't it be fun having three legs and being able to go round in a circle like the Isle of Man flag ? ’ |
| 8 | As Jonathan Sher has provided a wide-ranging account of education in rural America it may be sufficient to have two quotations from him — if only as counterpoint to our stereotype from imported films where the lovely young school mistress with an impeccable value system gets the rootin' tootin' cowboy and makes a man of him ! |