Example sentences of "[noun pl] to have " in BNC.

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1 With around 700 people a year dying in house fires , doctors from Cardiff Royal Infirmary stress how important it is for all homes to have smoke detectors .
2 On my birthday in November we again lobbied the guards to have the radio for the day .
3 In 1793 two companies of horse artillery were formed , the first British artillery units to have their own drivers ; and this reform was later extended to the whole of this branch of the army .
4 This similarity of format should allow these units to have common currency in the credit accumulation system — the National Record of Vocational Achievement , which both bodies operate .
5 There are enough good , specific reference sources available these days for the captions to have been a great deal more informative ; even at this very reasonable price the reader has a right to expect less of the hard work to be left up to him .
6 In his biography of the earl of Pembroke , however , Dr Phillips has effectively disproved this notion and shown the baronial conciliators to have been royal supporters , rather than independents .
7 As in the previous example , this generalization then permits the approaching waves to have a continuous wave front for appropriate values of k and a .
8 In this passage J. S. Mill resolutely turns his back on allowing sensations to have a universal character .
9 Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments .
10 Lloyd describes her books as ‘ wonderful , moving stuff : she is one of the few authors to have made John Booth cry . ’
11 In complex market economies , where the decision to produce and the decision to consume are taken by different people at different points in time , it is important for manufacturers to have some idea of the likely demand for products .
12 ‘ Fascism ’ , he said , ‘ is not a creed for the smug mice who choose to emerge from under Bloomsbury tea-cosies to have a nibble at it . ’
13 It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay
14 the university departments concerned may be perceived by the journal 's referees to have higher status than others ; or ,
15 the university departments concerned may be perceived by the journal 's referees to have higher status than others ; or ,
16 It is therefore a legal necessity for almost all goat-keepers to have a copy of the MAFF Code of Welfare of Goats .
17 Yet people with more or less stable impairments , struggling to make their way as oppressed citizens , do not usually appear in professional eyes to have much in common with the majority of bewildered , vulnerable people who seek medical help .
18 Feeling a fiendish sense of delight at being ‘ bad ’ , she lifted the binoculars back to her eyes to have one last look at the mystery guest .
19 The day was a continuous series of interruptions so that it was difficult for clients to have any real period of rest and quiet .
20 ‘ I would n't want my clients to have to make the decision and feel guilty about saying no . ’
21 Of equal importance is for clients to have confidence in our abilities and in particular this will be reinforced by our knowledge of the current market .
22 As more graduates enter primary teaching , so I believe it will become easier for schools to have a common purpose and to recognize this in a jointly worked-out curriculum , with more communication and actual cross-over from one part of the system to the other .
23 It always has been desirable for governors in special schools to have some knowledge of the curriculum in mainstream schools and for this awareness to be reciprocated .
24 It is sufficient for schools to have payphones for children and for inspectors to have right of access when concerned .
25 It posed questions about the core curriculum , gave an outline of such a core and stressed the need for schools to have written educational aims .
26 Future developments in the use of microcomputers including applications such as the use of expert systems , compact and video disks , electronic publishing and interactive video will be discussed in Chapter 10 and allow those starting to use microcomputers in schools to have a wider view of potential applications .
27 These ideas were discussed with the maths and computing adviser , who Subsequently wrote to all schools suggesting that the microcomputer might be Placed in the library and that it would be advisable for schools to have their school librarians attend in-service courses on microcomputer use which this adviser was organizing .
28 The full list of schools to have entered so far is : Harton Comprehensive School , South Shields ; Ian Ramsey School , Hartburn , Stockton ; Sedgefield Community College , Sedgefield ; Boroughbridge High School , Boroughbridge ; Greencroft Comprehensive School , Stanley ; Lanchester St Bede 's Comprehensive School , Lanchester ; Filey School , Filey ; Hermitage Comprehensive School , Chester-le-Street ; Ferryhill Comprehensive School , Ferryhill ; Scalby School , Newby , Scarborough ; Brackenhole School , Middlesbrough ; Hedworthfield Comprehensive School , Jarrow ; Royal Grammar School , Newcastle .
29 ‘ We created enough opportunities to have won handsomely , ’ he said .
30 ‘ We created enough opportunities to have won handsomely , ’ he said .
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