Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] have [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bird brains A Welsh rugby team had to play a Spanish soccer team during a tour , after a language mix-up in arranging the game . |
| 2 | The stewards inquiry had to make a quick decision ; any defect in natural justice at that stage would be cured by the hearing before the full committee of the Jockey Club . |
| 3 | Councillors arriving for Leominster 's Planning Committee meeting had to walk a silent gauntlet of children and parents to get to the council chamber . |
| 4 | The adherents to the Peace Alliance had to undergo a serious reorientation in their political attitudes . |
| 5 | Debra Busuttil will never have another baby because after labour was induced for the dead child doctors had to perform a life-saving hysterectomy . |
| 6 | Delivery times for most items were generally satisfactory , but there appears to be a possibility that readers consulting early or rare books in the South Reading Room have to wait a considerable time for items ordered over the lunchtime period . |
| 7 | In general , an aggro leader has to show a distinct sense of fearlessness — he has to be a ‘ hard case ’ . |
| 8 | Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day . |
| 9 | In the end , Mr Hurd had to make a joking reference to Mr Clarke 's audacity . |
| 10 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 11 | But he acted as if he remembered the phrase that Dean Acheson used in the spring of 1947 , in those days of little sleep and many martinis when Acheson , George Marshall and Harry Truman had to convince a sceptical Congress to back containment . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the objective threat posed by the Soviet Union and its own nuclear weapons means that the United States has to have a permanent war economy and that the people recognise this and vote for it . |
| 13 | He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance . |
| 14 | Gordon Marshall had to save a dangerous cross from Andy Kiwomya after only five minutes , and seven minutes later the Celtic keeper upended the same Dundee player in the box . |
| 15 | On top of that internal auditors make regular checks on branches , sales staff have to complete a four-page form after each sales visit , and Lautro makes spot checks . |
| 16 | In the tests , Prof Jeffreys had to match a minuscule fragment of DNA from Mengele 's leg bone with blood samples from his son Rolf . |
| 17 | In actual competition , taekwondo exponents have to wear a specific , padded body armour , which is a sleeveless jacket fastened at the back with cord ties . |
| 18 | In university libraries the organization of staff for book provision has to resolve a major difficulty — the respective roles of university departments vis-à-vis the library staff . |
| 19 | It was not possible to vary this , because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism . |
| 20 | Manager Greg Downs has to change a winning team . |
| 21 | During training Catherine had to acquire a few hair-raising skill such as flying upside down and rescuing the aircraft from a stall . |
| 22 | Additionally , each Health Authority had to identify a local person with responsibility for implementing management development strategies . |
| 23 | Her objective is to keep him fit between shows , which in the Yorkshire Dales is not a problem ; the horses at Heyside Farm have to climb a substantial hill just to get from the stableyard to the road . |
| 24 | ‘ Every month the city verderers have to deliver a fat buck for the Dean 's kitchen ; in thanksgiving the Dean and Chapter perform this dance . ’ |
| 25 | Hire purchase , credit sale and conditional sale advertising had to give a comprehensive picture of costs ( if it mentioned any financial terms ) , and any interest rate it quoted had to approximate to a true annual rate of interest , but the formula used was different from the one in the Moneylenders Acts . |
| 26 | Bassetlaw 's community care services have to reach a scattered , mainly rural population |
| 27 | The support worker has to create a delicate balance between giving advisers the ‘ answer ’ for a client and directing them to the relevant part of the information system . |
| 28 | Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted . |
| 29 | ‘ Mark Morris had to make a good save late on from a snapshot by a defender , but Gary Bennett also had a chance to win the game for us at the end . ’ |
| 30 | In another series of cases the Court has condemned national laws which require undertakings which are licensed to carry out particular activities in one member state having to obtain a second licence to provide the same services in another member state where the licensing requirements in the first member state adequately safeguard all necessary requirements for the protection of the public interest . |