Example sentences of "have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were convinced the IRA would have a contingency plan with a second major target . |
| 2 | Do you have a contingency for it ? |
| 3 | Now , however , they may have a suspect who was seeking to put a bizarrely similar story of art robbery on the screen . |
| 4 | If you do n't have a racket , you can still learn to play tennis . |
| 5 | Colombia does not have a consumption problem comparable to that of the US or Europe . |
| 6 | I think women will receive more help with childbirth , we will have a clinic near by , someone who will take an interest ill our health and the education of our children . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Major is not suddenly going to say let's have a referendum , ’ said one Scottish Tory source . |
| 8 | Why ca n't we have a referendum to stop them doing so again ? — |
| 9 | May we have a debate next week or as soon as possible to consider whether we should have a referendum at any stage and in what circumstances ? |
| 10 | We ca n't have a scandal like this made public . |
| 11 | Charles Darwin , when he was shown the flower by baffled botanists , confidently predicted that , bearing in mind the flower 's colour and size , a night-flying moth would be its pollinator and that , unlikely though this might sound , it would have a proboscis a foot long . |
| 12 | Did Gray have a parking permit ? |
| 13 | Hans was sitting his finals , at the London School of Economics in 1947 , when his father called Bloomsbury House and asked if his son could have a fortnight 's convalescence at their expense as he was over-tired and very nervous . |
| 14 | I mean I had act I wanted to er hopefully have a fortnight off before the exam , to revise , but the way this work' looking , I do n't what I 'm going . |
| 15 | Shareholders must have a fortnight to consider an offer , so that the final offer must come before the 46th day . |
| 16 | ‘ Be your own lawyer and you 'll have a fool for a client ’ , is an adage that calls for another : ‘ Employ a lawyer and he 'll have a pauper for a client ’ — Sunday Times . |
| 17 | I do n't have a guitar roadie there to do everything for me , so I interact with my guitar on every level . |
| 18 | Back when I was with a certain company — I wo n't mention who — they had a situation that I could never have imagined : they did n't have a guitar player on staff ! |
| 19 | She had never regarded herself as a very organised person , and did n't even consider she had a routine ; but when George retired , realised that she did have a kind of pattern . |
| 20 | The State will also have a kind of right of pre-emption . |
| 21 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 22 | Still , Moore does have a kind of ethical methodology . |
| 23 | These are of course easy to distinguish from idioms ; nonetheless , they do have a kind of semantic cohesion — the constituent elements are , to varying degrees , mutually selective . |
| 24 | Yes , yes , did they have a kind of marbled |
| 25 | However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place . |
| 26 | The governing party does n't really have a position in the country . |
| 27 | Can you imagine it comrades , you would have a position in which we attempt to put into place a bureaucratic list of people who are meant to be Labour supporters , they are n't Labour members . |
| 28 | Too often I have seen the management of a city or of an orchestra decide , by some strange whim , ‘ Now we must have a change . ’ |
| 29 | Not only did they drench her in a water fight when she did n't have a change of clothes and throw her on the muck heap , but on Friday evening offered her a roll filled with Doggie Dins , so she spent the rest of the night throwing up . |
| 30 | I 'd tell my husband I 'd rather have a change of holiday and not go with our friends . |