Example sentences of "having [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 It hopes to allow , and induce , students to work at the pace best suited to them as individuals , rather than having to proceed at the standard class rate . |
| 2 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 3 | However , there is no denying that the picture quality does suffer at these low levels : the colours become increasingly weak and washed-out looking , and the sharpness of the definition falls off because the lens is having to work at its maximum aperture . |
| 4 | When companies such as Airship Industries , who are known internationally for their airships in advertising and military defence , were tipped in the press , there followed a flurry of buying , without the dealers having to work at it . |
| 5 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 6 | The Cabinet broke up without reaching a final decision , only to be warned by John Major that it risks having to meet at the weekend . |
| 7 | In particular I would like to know about your own background rather than having to guess at this while reading about a set of fictional characters . |
| 8 | a game played by holding in the closed hand one or two items , the other player having to guess at the number . |
| 9 | Throughout the 1970's , trains on the existing branch to Arkwright Colliery were having to reverse at Beighton to gain the GC , and the E.R. |
| 10 | In 1935 a Mr Cole of Middlesbrough complained to the Sea Fish Commission that they were still having to sell at the pre-war prices of a halfpenny fish and a ha'porth of chips . |
| 11 | Robyn has a vivid mental image of the girl before her , now so pleasantly and comfortably dressed , sheathed in latex and nylon , the full fetishistic ensemble of brassiere , knickers , suspender belt and stockings with which the lingerie industry seeks to truss the female body , and having to parade at some fashion show in front of leering men and hardfaced women from department stores . |
| 12 | On the Saturdays I would scrub the kitchen floor , black and polish the kitchen grate , and polish the knives , so that my mother could have a little rest on her return from several hours cleaning , sometimes having to walk at least a mile to her regular place of work . |
| 13 | Having to stare at him sometimes ( not when he would notice , because of his vanity ) but feeling his looks intensely . |
| 14 | She fiddled with the choke button to avoid having to look at him . |
| 15 | One of the delights of being on holiday is not having to look at the clock . |
| 16 | Two uniforms were trying to put an extendable ladder up to the skylight — God knows where it had come from — over the bath without actually having to look at the body . |
| 17 | Well , I , I think it 's a sound idea , I think it 's sad at a time of local government reorganization when we 're likely to see authorities getting smaller , and yet the , the issues wo n't get any smaller , and the new authorities may well be having to look at ways of getting together with their neighbours to look at strategies which cover areas of the sort of size of the old county areas , and also getting together to , to , to meet , erm , organizations which will still on county-size boundaries , like Techs , and , and similar . |
| 18 | So what you 're doing is to take the focal point away from them and they 're having to look at you if you know what I mean . |
| 19 | All these regulations that we 're now having to I 'm having to with expert er help from my colleague er Neil Hamilton , having to look at and redo , do you know where they all came from ? |
| 20 | well , I do n't know whether that man over there is cleaning the windows or whether he 's having to look at the double glazing again |
| 21 | So it 's nought , point , six , two , so for our thirty seven minutes it 's , four point six , two , there we are look , but the thing is you can now do it without having to look at a scale |
| 22 | I asked , wondering if they 'd been angry on behalf of Ban Bhāi because Chola and the other women had n't waited for his permission , or because they 'd cheated , sneaking out first and grabbing all the pine-needles at the edge of the forest without having to climb at all . |
| 23 | Although made almost entirely of wood and having to land at what was then the extremely high speed of 100mph , I can only remember one incident of a Mosquito crashing and burning on the airfield . |
| 24 | Any kid will tell you that the worst part of moving house is having to start at a new school where you do n't know anyone , and I was scared stiff . |
| 25 | And most frustrating of all would be having to witness at the conclusion of each such anecdote otherwise decent employees shaking their heads in wonder and uttering phrases like : ‘ That Mr Neighbours , he really is the best . ’ |
| 26 | As can be imagined , trying to obtain reasonable samples of the general population for relatively short interviews on such topics as voting behaviour or food preferences can result in a lot of interviewers having to call at a lot of houses over all towns and cities in the country . |
| 27 | ‘ MANY as are the virtues of the Moon under Water I think that the garden is the best feature , because it allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind baby while Dad goes out alone . |
| 28 | The suggested version has similarities to Postman 's Knock , too , with a couple having to spend at least one minute observing before they are allowed back into the room . |