Example sentences of "have [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What possible reason could I have for being tense ? |
| 2 | And if I 'm right , what better reason could he have for being so implacable against Isambard ? ’ |
| 3 | The Open University 's ( address on page 148 ) pre-retirement course book lists some of the good as well as the bad feelings you can have about being alone : ‘ I feel I do n't have to put on an act ’ , ‘ I feel really me ’ , ‘ I feel relaxed ’ are some of the items on the list . |
| 4 | It will banish any anxieties that you may have about being alone at night or coming home to an empty house . |
| 5 | It will give her something of her own to love and care for which will return her love , and help to reduce any feelings she may have of being ‘ odd man out ’ in the home . |
| 6 | In each case mentioned , therefore , the employer 's commercial assessment and endeavours or the prevailing economic circumstances will significantly reduce or even remove any prospect the employee might have of being entitled to a compensation award . |
| 7 | To write and record songs and do world tours when I do n't have to is important because that is my , and the band 's , identity . |
| 8 | I think there is always an element of typecasting that is sensible , I mean it does n't have to be restrictive . |
| 9 | Indeed , until the ecumenical era of the 1960s , few catholics in Ireland were prepared to put before themselves some of the political religious issues which would have to be resolved if a united Ireland or accommodation to a separate political entity in Ulster were to become a possibility . |
| 10 | One of these beliefs may be racial superiority , but does not have to be . |
| 11 | This , of course would have to be seen . |
| 12 | The beauty of glass , he wrote , is this , that the surface does not have to be covered . |
| 13 | It will have to be installed either by a window or in the middle of the largest room you 've got , I told her . |
| 14 | A traditional interior does not have to be incompatible with accommodating whole families , nor with providing meals ; yet an increasing number of old pub interiors are being sacrificed on the altar of the identikit eating house — whether the brewer 's concept be a downmarket steakhouse or part of a family restaurant chain masquerading as an independent local concern . |
| 15 | As a result , the brunt of investment pressures will have to be borne by an ever-decreasing stock of pubs ; and what good pubs we have left will be more than ever exposed to the cold winds of change . |
| 16 | But he said it could mean duties of managers/owners — such as keeping a hotel plan or ensuring staff are trained to use the fire fighting equipment — implicit in UK laws — would have to be spelt out . |
| 17 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 18 | When she arrived , she listened to the story of what had happened , teased out the relevant details , then announced that the police would have to be called and went off back to her office to do the necessary . |
| 19 | It had n't occurred to me that Sarah and John might not be alone , but here , now , I would have to be introduced and explained away somehow . |
| 20 | The door would have to be left ajar for air and that might alert passers-by . |
| 21 | Any job I took would also have to be fitted around me travelling to and from Harwich . |
| 22 | Why does it always have to be me ? ’ |
| 23 | You 'd have to be daft not to want to give it a go . |
| 24 | These tend to rot in the sun and though the treads might be as good as new , they will have to be changed because of the cracks in the walls . |
| 25 | As the controls become effective , the amount of rudder will have to be reduced long before full flying speed is reached . |
| 26 | If the wing-tip touches long grass or rough ground , there will certainly be a bad swing and the launch will have to be abandoned . |
| 27 | A further complication may be that any sideslipping to correct for drift may cause the ASI to under-read so that the speed may have to be judged . |
| 28 | Until you are consistently getting the photos you want from inside the photographic sector , you will need to fly some distance beyond the turning point so that you do not have to be in a very steep turn or exactly positioned . |
| 29 | The device may have to be removed by a small operation . |
| 30 | But it does n't have to be exercise with a capital E. Think of it more as activity . |