Example sentences of "our [noun sg] have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , for practical purposes , our work has to be among the very poor . ’ |
| 2 | All our work has to be prepared so much in advance , because then all the sets have to be constructed , all the statistics worked out , budgets have to be agreed and so on . |
| 3 | Can I ask our officer to comment on what would be the effect of reducing our importance have on our , hopefully potential ? |
| 4 | If the origin of life is such an improbable event that it happened on only one planet in the universe , then our planet has to be that planet . |
| 5 | But not in the lake ; the lake water itself was caustic , and all our water had to be brought over from the mainland . |
| 6 | ‘ The great expansions of our paper have in the past been directly linked to the growth of the rail network in Scotland . |
| 7 | Peter Doyle , director of research and technology , said in a recent interview : ‘ Our R&D has to be purposeful , focused , applied and strategic , and it has to succeed , because it will be our salvation . ’ |
| 8 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 9 | In a kindly voice ( for which , later , he felt like smacking her ) , she said , ‘ I think you are mixing me up with the child our mother had in the late 1930s . ’ |
| 10 | Our client has to be fit for his/her occupation as a [ ] . |