Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we have to go ten times a day , we will go , but everyone is saying that the things should be knocked down . |
| 2 | There 's no electricity on Skomer and we get all our power from bottled gas which we have to carry 90 steps up the cliff-side to our house . |
| 3 | We are taught at school that if , when subtracting , the number on the top is smaller than that on the bottom , we have to carry ten from the left , take the bottom number from that ten and then add the top one — only sometimes we find that the top number on the left is a zero which means that we have to carry ten from the one to the left of that , turn the zero into a nine and then carry the ten … what a complicated process . |
| 4 | We are taught at school that if , when subtracting , the number on the top is smaller than that on the bottom , we have to carry ten from the left , take the bottom number from that ten and then add the top one — only sometimes we find that the top number on the left is a zero which means that we have to carry ten from the one to the left of that , turn the zero into a nine and then carry the ten … what a complicated process . |
| 5 | By the same token , if it is good you only have to wait five minutes and it will get worse . |
| 6 | " The rules are that if you leave your employment voluntarily you have to wait six weeks before you can claim Unemployment Benefit . |
| 7 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |
| 8 | Other people who have contributed money all their lives to the NHS since it began have to wait 51 weeks for a hip replacement . |
| 9 | In all these things you have to wait ten or fifteen years . |
| 10 | Non-fundholders have to wait ten weeks in Guildford for an ultra-sound scan ; fund-holders can have one within two weeks . |
| 11 | Q : We may be improving customer service for our end users by faster delivery of ware , but what about the employee shop — we still have to wait 3–4 months sometimes for ware . |
| 12 | If you are sent to prison for up to six months , you have to wait seven years ; a fine is wiped clean after five years and probation or conditional discharge takes one year . |
| 13 | The obvious advantage is that they provide sack-loads of fun and laughter , and the disadvantage is that you sometimes have to wait three hours for them to find their boots in the morning and finish flossing their teeth . |
| 14 | At present farmers have to wait three weeks between spreading the sludge on their fields and allowing cattle to graze . |
| 15 | We used to get exactly the same rebate , the only thing is we have to wait three months for it . |
| 16 | It was an arrangement we had I , I would n't phone in cos you have to wait three weeks for your wages if I phone in . |
| 17 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 18 | have to wait twenty five to eight before he 'd come in , how he was coming here at that time I do n't know . |
| 19 | Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd are in charge of part of the project — they have to gather 5 million words of unpublished written material . |
| 20 | Most of us have to combat one or more of them . |
| 21 | The only slight snag is that you have to perform two exercise tests , once on blockade and later off treatment , to detect any residual risk coronary narrowing . |
| 22 | Put it you have to Channel Ten , you want it on Channel Ten for your bedroom . |
| 23 | In arithmetic , common factors often help when we have to compare two or more numbers . |
| 24 | We have to meet fifty six different standards for the quality of water . |
| 25 | it would seem that the economics of the socially approved tobacco and alcohol industries means that we have to accept 42,000 deaths annually from cigarettes , and the cost to society of 50,000 alcoholics . |
| 26 | I imagine you have to secure one of these as soon as it comes on the market . ’ |
| 27 | You could do , but then you have to restart One Two Three and re-retrieve your spreadsheet and all the rest of it . |
| 28 | Often they have to work 12 hours a day to fulfil contracts . |
| 29 | We just have to write one side on the rational and one side on the method and the third side 's on the results . |
| 30 | We have to write ten pages about ‘ The dangers of pollution ’ — and we have n't started yet . ’ |