Example sentences of "[vb infin] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 2 | In the course of the argument I was told that the debtor will now seek to have the bills taxed . |
| 3 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari in an interview in the Financial Times of July 20 said that he would seek to have ceilings placed on high spending in such campaigns and to make election financing more transparent . |
| 4 | If it is unnecessarily bureaucratic the engineer should seek to have the systems modified so that they contribute more cost effectively to improved quality . |
| 5 | If such consent is withheld , then the doctor could seek to have the child made a ward of court . |
| 6 | Taxpayers should seek to have income if at all possible assessed under TA 1988 , Case III or Cases IV and V rather than Case VI because in the former Cases the assessment is on the preceding year basis . |
| 7 | After the meeting Coun Wilson said he would seek to have the issue raised in the House of Commons . |
| 8 | However , having spent a total of £41million on the redevelopment by then , the union would obviously seek to have as many sell-out rugby events as it could reasonably muster in a season . |
| 9 | She asked : ‘ Will you seek to have published the report on these matters prepared by the DTI which has recently been the subject of much press speculation . ’ |
| 10 | What do you consider to have been Matisse 's most important contribution to modern art ? |
| 11 | My mother made me promise to have only one glass — and I 've had two already . " |
| 12 | will you promise to have a look er will |
| 13 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |
| 14 | Back in the late 1940s , early 1950s , I remember my fishing mentor , the late Tom Kelly , Edinburgh , describing these wonderful , strange fish which displayed all the colours of the rainbow when they were caught ; and I could hardly wait to have a go . |
| 15 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 16 | At lunchtimes I could n't wait to have my regular fix of Anguillan fish soup with rouille , a creamy fish soup with croutons and tasty garlic dip . |
| 17 | She did not even wait to have her breakfast . |
| 18 | Well , give him his due , Prior Robert hardly said a word tonight , he will wait to have cause before he accuses any man , but he is intelligent enough to put all these small nothings together and make of them something . |
| 19 | ‘ The Bosche are also marching out there somewhere , and they ca n't wait to have a crack at you lot , ’ the sergeant-major assured them as the snow continued to fall . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't wait to have a go at the Hun myself . ’ |
| 21 | Oh good , I ca n't wait to have that |
| 22 | EC finance ministers have agreed that an intermediary in a triangular supply of goods can opt to have its customer in the country of destination account for VAT on the intermediary 's behalf ( p 102 ) . |
| 23 | EC finance ministers have now agreed that an intermediary can opt to have its customer in the country of destination account for VAT on the intermediary 's behalf . |
| 24 | Faced with a zero price a consumer may opt to have the service just because it is free , while not really feeling very strongly about it one way or the other . |
| 25 | However , you can opt to have the income paid out to you every six months , currently in May and November [ subject to the Terms and Conditions ] . |
| 26 | Those who never want to see the DOS prompt again can opt to have the Shell loaded each time the computer is turned on . |
| 27 | The user can opt to have the Listing file ‘ Printed ’ or ‘ Deleted ’ , or both , once it has been prepared ; note that if these options are chosen the output file will be queued for printing first and , if required , deleted afterwards . |
| 28 | By a process of mutual choice , referral back and elimination a number of names is arrived at of individuals who by reputation are assumed by those who should know to have power in the community . |
| 29 | Jessie Stephen 's mother wished she had not had so many children and did not desire to have more . |
| 30 | ‘ You write the specifications for her repairs , and I 'll guarantee to have them done at the best boatyard in America . ’ |