Example sentences of "have [prep] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 156 passengers representing a full trainload , and high-season tickets ( end of May — end of July ) selling at £320 , one does not have to be a brilliant mathematician to get a grasp of the kind of revenue being earned . |
| 2 | In fact , one does not have to be a committed deconstructionist to find a split between meaning and rhetoric in the work of recent theorists . |
| 3 | You did n't have to be a client or a famous face to be on the receiving end . |
| 4 | To achieve this , there would have to be a period during which growth slowed down , and with it the growth of imports . |
| 5 | It is fully comprehensive and covers the mobility supplement holder and two drivers nominated by the holder , so you do n't have to be a driver to run a Motability car . |
| 6 | This does n't have to be a disc — a cassette or video qualifies as well . |
| 7 | At least you would have to be a doctor to say so , and not a politician or an academic . ) |
| 8 | ‘ It will have to be a week on Saturday . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Jiri Dienstbier , the Forum spokesman , responded coolly to the appointment of the new Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , and said that were the Communist Mr Calfa to remain in office the president would have to be a non-Communist . |
| 10 | Whether harmonization of requirements would prove feasible or not , there would have to be a major rationalization of the aircraft industry if it was to continue competing in world markets . |
| 11 | In short , local government 's future financial base will have to be a hybrid — either of two or more taxes or of a tax-and-grants kind . |
| 12 | It does not have to be a long passage , it may only be a verse . |
| 13 | It would have to be a headache again . |
| 14 | ‘ It would have to be a secret though . |
| 15 | You would have to be a masochist to do that . ’ |
| 16 | GRIDLOCK by Ben Elton Sphere , £4.99 WHEN a stand-up comedian decides to sit down and write a novel , does the result have to be a heavy-handed satire on just about everything ? |
| 17 | The sense of Italy 's crisis is pervasive , and there will have to be a settling of accounts . |
| 18 | There is much more to the election than the party leaders ; and a prime minister does not have to be a star . |
| 19 | But he said there would have to be a complete overhaul of the electoral system first . |
| 20 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 21 | It may be that August 1 would now have to be a more realistic target date . |
| 22 | Perhaps this expedition did not have to be a total waste . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't have to be a rocket scientist ’ Americans will tell you , implying that average intelligence will suffice . |
| 24 | Handy , looking from a slightly different perspective of the whole organisation , comes to essentially similar conclusions — everyone will have to be a manager but at the same time , no one can afford to be only a manager . |
| 25 | But suddenly , social life and entertainment , or the lack of it , faded into insignificance for me , with the arrival from North Africa of a mysterious and rather unsubtly coded letter which one did not have to be a cryptanalyst to interpret as evidence that Leslie was coming home . |
| 26 | The boy being a minor , there would have to be a Regency , but the acceptance of Alfonso would provide dynastic continuity and at the same time prevent the appearance of further candidates . |
| 27 | There 'll always have to be a man in charge , at least one man , deciding what should be made , and how . |
| 28 | This does n't have to be a physical , geographical journey from one place to another — I say ‘ journey ’ simply in terms of movement ’ ( Le Clair and McCaffery 1983 : 129 ) . |
| 29 | You will have to be a little cruel to be kind or she 'll never regain her stability or independence . |
| 30 | Although warning signs shout at you not to cross these fragile constructions , as you 're bound to fall off and die and do n't say they did n't tell you so , you 'd have to be a boring old git not to want to do a balancing act over them for thrills . |