Example sentences of "has [to-vb] a " in BNC.

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1 The machine does not need to know anything : it has to perform a task .
2 In competition a sailor has to perform a three minute routine , performing as many tricks as he can and linking them together with a smooth flowing act .
3 The underthread for the lockstitch is provided by the bobbin , and the needle thread has to perform a loop to go around the bobbin which is held in a bobbin case under a slide plate .
4 However there are a number of important controlling factors : firstly , the subject fixates centrally ( usually he has to report a digit which is presented in order to confirm this central fixation ) ; secondly , the stimulus is exposed for less than 200 milliseconds to avoid eye movement ; thirdly , the visual angle of the stimuli from the fixation point should be between 2.5° and 5° ( otherwise , confounding effects occur ) .
5 I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record .
6 It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way .
7 ‘ He has to see a man , ’ I reminded her tonelessly .
8 Perhaps it 's enough to be Scarlet , who has to see a therapist and dreams only of early retirement and death .
9 Craig 's father Robert says his son is still suffering from nightmares , and has to see a psychiatrist weekly for counselling .
10 In a new age of philistinism , when everything has to wear a price tag , the beauty and wonder of the world of nature have low value in the market place .
11 She now has to wear a neck brace , keep her left arm still with a sling and use a walking stick .
12 Please sir , Axl 's doctor said we 're to be nice to him because he comes from a broken home and he has to wear a kilt .
13 Perhaps if it 's a bad case the patient has to wear a special boot or keep the leg held straight with iron braces . ’
14 ‘ Even at night time the chronic itching is no better and Graham has to wear a specially made sleep suit which covers his entire body , ’ says Kathleen .
15 And their bride has to wear er , all in red and er the bridegroo er groom has to wear a long costume with a red big flowers in front i aha and then they get married and there 's erm band , the Chinese traditional band with drums and trumpets blowing all the time and er , all the guests have a very nice time .
16 She also has to wear a set of hideously long fingernails .
17 His arm is weak , and he has to wear a splint on his leg .
18 But Kernaghan has to wear a brace on his right leg for another five weeks after his knee locked against Tranmere Rovers .
19 She only has to wear an outfit once for it to become an instant fashion trend .
20 She has to wear an artificial arm and mask to protect the skin on her face .
21 This contrasts oddly with the MMC procedure in the case of a merger , where the MMC has to conduct an open inquiry .
22 The researcher has to remain an objective and outside recorder of events at the same time as being closely involved with the people and events that are being studied .
23 But throughout all this teaching , this familiarising and making intelligible , the teacher has to preserve a certain distance .
24 The introduction has to paint a picture — it must give a solid reason why the report has to be considered , so the background of the subject matter is the core of the introduction .
25 This is a development of flash cards which works the visual memory even harder , because the pupil has to carry an image of strings of words .
26 This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority .
27 Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea .
28 Hence , to reflect Renaissance preoccupations adequately he has to include a wider variety of genres — and a wider variety of poets , for that matter — than the traditional canon allows .
29 Each team in England has to include a lay member .
30 The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education .
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