Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applied linguistics in this sense must be practised by teachers too if it is to have any effective operational relevance at all . |
| 2 | If it is to have any practical value a recording system must be concerned with measuring observable behaviour . |
| 3 | Your dog may be rather nervous of being washed and will need to be trained accordingly , especially if it is to have a career in the show ring , where careful preparation is so vital . |
| 4 | If we can not win that support , we may as well go out of business , and it is our duty now at all events to make the best of the situation which has arisen and to see that everything is done to make our Party what Disraeli called it — and what , if it is to have any existence , It must be — a really national party . |
| 5 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 6 | Any extinguishing agent which develops its effects in the same direction must be capable of overtaking the flame front if it is to have an acceptable limiting influence on potential damage . |
| 7 | What is the vital ingredient that a dead planet like the early Earth must have , if it is to have a chance of eventually coming alive , as our planet did ? |
| 8 | The bodily expression of inner distress needs a framework of bonds between people if it is to have any meaning . |
| 9 | If a tax is to be fair , if it is to have the support of the people and if it is to be collectable , it must be based on the fundamental principle of ability to pay . |
| 10 | In presenting the proposals the president of the Commission , Jacques Delors , said that in the post-Maastricht era the " EC must find new money if it is to have a greater profile on the international scene " . |
| 11 | Propaganda , if it is to have any effect at all , must have some basis in truth . |
| 12 | If it is to have empirical consequences it must rule out many other ways of understanding the pattern of metaphors . |
| 13 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 14 | It is not difficult to discern where this has happened , and frustrating though it is to have to surmise the contents of the missing portions of text , at least the historian is aware of the partial nature of the evidence . |
| 15 | I do n't agree that it 's as easy to have two dogs as it is to have one — it 's almost as easy . |