Example sentences of "[n mass] have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nucella has to bore all but the smallest mussels , but an adult dog-whelk can usually inject the narcotic between the opercular plates of a barnacle to relax the prey without boring ( Carriker , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | To justify its existence , a conglomerate 's headquarters has to add more value than an independent business unit could get from outside advisers and banks . |
| 3 | Convoy protection and aircraft had to take priority over raiding forces ' equipment , but , as the name ‘ invasion corps ’ suggests the British were considering ways of getting a more permanent foothold in Europe . |
| 4 | Besides the obvious need to apply combat paint over the civil tanker schemes , the aircraft had to have their retardant tank systems removed . |
| 5 | For fifty years the precise form of the subsidies varied : that of 1513 combined a tax on rank for the nobles with an income or property tax for commoners ; that of 1514 taxed wages as well as landed incomes and property ; in 1540 only those with landed incomes or property above £20 had to pay . |
| 6 | All gliders and light aircraft have to recover satisfactorily with the standard method . |
| 7 | She did n't know what masquerading meant and muttered : ‘ Folk has to wear summat . |
| 8 | Yuan had to show him how it was released . |
| 9 | In 1372 stipendiaries , and rectors and vicars with benefices worth 10 marks ( or £3 13/ 4d ) , were to come as archers with bows and arrows ; those with livings worth more than £10 had to attend ‘ well armed ’ ; if their living was valued at £20 they had to be accompanied by two archers , if £40 by two armed men and two archers , if £100 by five armed men and six archers . |
| 10 | How much , we wondered , would it cost to live like royalty , or the very rich , to pay someone to come in and do all the things us ordinary folk have to do for ourselves . |
| 11 | The population is diminishing due to the advancement of the machine on the farm , so very few men are needed on the land , and many of the young folk have to go elsewhere to find work . |
| 12 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 13 | In reality no fish has to eat a vast amount of food , though luckily for us some are right pigs ! |
| 14 | There was a secret somewhere , though , that Thérèse had to get hold of and understand . |
| 15 | Once the light indicator had reached the limit of its travel the bream had to grip the bait to stop it pulling away from its lips . |
| 16 | Even such a perfect match would count for little if the fish had to wave its fins in order to maintain its position in the water , or if it were to move independently from the weed . |
| 17 | Always remember that fish have to swim in their own ‘ loo ’ . |
| 18 | Those between £61 and £147 have to pay contributions on a sliding scale . |
| 19 | Yet the counsellor of older people has to realize that the blocks may not necessarily be those current in modern attitudes and beliefs . |
| 20 | Under this scheme , when a member of staff has to surrender a mortgage at a low fixed rate of interest for a new mortgage at a higher rate of interest , a compensatory allowance may be payable . |
| 21 | The surveyor with the lowest value of sales has to wash the winner 's car , wearing a pair of swimming trunks on a cold January morning . |
| 22 | The planners cheerfully calculate that this works out at only 60 cents a day per person — and that this cost will be offset by people having to spend less on doctors and medicines . |
| 23 | However , Suffolk 's social services director Bill Bulpin said there was no question of old people having to move from residential care once they were established there . |
| 24 | We must also ensure that the escalation of costs does not lead to elderly people having to move from a single-bedded room to shared accommodation , which would be a lowering of standards in their residential home — and it is their home . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's always the case of black people having to go mainstream to be accepted , instead of us doing our shit how we wan na do it and them coming over and taking a look , ’ says Roger D. ‘ We 're doing it for ourselves now . |
| 26 | He also mentioned the work of the Centre for Dispute Resolution — a way of resolving disputes on a whole range of issues that avoids people having to go to court . |
| 27 | So there would b take away this anomaly of old people having to use three buses to get from one end of the town to the other , which means , in actual fact , that each bus they went on to , they paid this ten pence , which if there 's three , if they do not turn it twice a week , twice a day , that 's sixty pence . |
| 28 | Campaigning for carriage of cycles on public transport ( we do n't like people having to use cars to get their bikes into the countryside ! ) ; |
| 29 | The construction of elaborate intellectual er defences which stop people having to think about things which might cause them anxiety , by elaborate rationalization . |
| 30 | It would help to regenerate the East Cleveland economy and solve many of the problems suffered by local people having to endure the noise and discomfort caused by heavy traffic through Guisborough 's main shopping street . |