Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Identifying the specific weaving group is , of course , far more difficult , and you would have to gather a considerable amount of information on the individual variations in weave , colour and composition before hazarding a guess . |
| 2 | An oncologist may have to diagnose a malignant tumour several times a day , an ophthalmologist may have to tell five patients , in the one day , that they are going blind . |
| 3 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 4 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 5 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 6 | She might have to wait a wee while but I think she 'll get on , yes . |
| 7 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 8 | it is perhaps a tribute to the resilience of both that they can come together at all : for the result , we may have to wait a few more cricket seasons . |
| 9 | Another example of that for instance , and this is something we 'll , we 'll have to wait a full explanation of this we 'll have to wait a little bit later itself . |
| 10 | Another example of that for instance , and this is something we 'll , we 'll have to wait a full explanation of this we 'll have to wait a little bit later itself . |
| 11 | which is useful when they may have to wait a whole year for payment for their wheat harvest , or for the sale of fat cattle . |
| 12 | If you are wearing trousers you 'll have to wear a long top so it does n't show anything . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll have to wear a long coat . |
| 14 | Do I have to wear a cheap suit and drive a Sierra to get invited . |
| 15 | A girl may simultaneously have to wear a masculine tie ; show womanly ‘ maturity ’ ; conceal feminine allure ; present a female non-assertive front in the classroom ; and read male-oriented textbooks . |
| 16 | We would have to see a whole change of pattern and thinking for all clubs and all players in April . |
| 17 | But do n't pick up any more thorns , Hlao-roo , because we may have to go a long way . " |
| 18 | ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that . |
| 19 | You 're gon na have to go a long then , cos I 'm going up the pub , ha , ha . |
| 20 | Drivers coming from Teesside Airport and heading north would have to go a significant distance to use it . ’ |
| 21 | Even if an algorithm embodied knowledge that perhaps the training set should be transformed to polar coordinates , still the algorithm would have to search a 2-dimensional continuum of possible centres . |
| 22 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 23 | The external skeleton inherited from their water-living forebears , needed few modifications for life on land , but the millipedes did have to acquire a different method of breathing . |
| 24 | I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets . |
| 25 | To do so , they will have to issue a good deal more paper than they would normally like . |
| 26 | You do not have to include a general model for your allies but you can do so if you wish . |
| 27 | I 'll have to , I 'll have to arrange a hanging squad here . |
| 28 | Anyone unemployed for a year will have to attend a special workshop . |
| 29 | Before the new dog goes on the beat , he will have to attend a 13-week training course with Pc Barlow later in the year . |
| 30 | You may have to carry a spare set if you are going out for a full day 's detecting as charge life can be as low as five hours , and ni-cads should not be recharged until they are spent . |