Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.27 In any case involving serious and lasting injury , the plaintiff 's solicitors may have to instruct an accountant to calculate past and future pecuniary loss . |
| 2 | If they cause very high casualties the enemy units may have to take a panic test in the same way as for missile casualties . |
| 3 | Parliamentary arithmetic dictated , therefore , that Labour would have to produce a package which was acceptable to at least one of the opposition parties . |
| 4 | He noted on 1 November that in the future the United States would have to walk a tightrope between the newly independent states and the old colonial powers . |
| 5 | It may mean that all lambs expected to be put before live exporters will have to carry a flock identification mark . |
| 6 | Positive thinking will have to wait a while , but it augurs well for one of the young ringsiders who turned up in his smartest suit and said : ‘ What a disgusting fight ; I wish I 'd worn my tracksuit . ’ |
| 7 | A government department will have to issue a directive ; or the police mount a prosecution . |
| 8 | A ‘ look and write ’ production task where candidates will have to label a diagram , flow chart or organisation-tree , fill in a form or questionnaire , or reorder and supplement data . |
| 9 | Any proposal would have to achieve a majority in both houses . |
| 10 | To stop " false tourism " , visitors from certain countries would have to pay a deposit on entering France and to undergo an AIDS test . |
| 11 | In the latter case the Bank of England would have to hold a gold reserve to meet the demand of foreigners who wanted to convert sterling into gold . |
| 12 | " We estimate that a typical child would have to eat a tonne of chocolate a week for life to exceed the safe dose , " said the alliance 's spokesman . |
| 13 | The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore says that every village would have to add an average of six houses per year to eliminate India 's shortage of rural homes . |
| 14 | East Germans who stay in work will have to work a lot harder as tough private bosses take over flabby state-run factories . |
| 15 | Given the response of colleges in session 1987–88 we anticipate that the Council will have to make a selection and , in inviting colleges to progress their proposals , will consider the extent to which proposals will : |
| 16 | From 30 June this year , all publicly listed companies will have to include a statement in their annual reports indicating that they comply with the Cadbury code of best practice ( see p 94 ) , or giving reasons for areas of non-compliance . |
| 17 | Unfortunately this is not part of the National Health Service , and the parents will have to pay a fee . |
| 18 | The rugged little Frenchman growled : ‘ Hodkinson will have to do a Houdini to escape from me . ’ |
| 19 | CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons . |
| 20 | Since Sir Edmond 's will ruled out charging fees , there were two possible solutions : either the Goldsmiths would have to increase the stipend from their own income from Shaa 's bequest , or the local community would have to take a hand . |
| 21 | The marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood , but that did n't stop Topaz from wanting and loving him . |
| 22 | This meant first-time buyers would have to pay an average of £32,700 for their home in 1991 . |
| 23 | Under the Lalonde scheme , any company producing toxic waste would have to reach an agreement with the state environment agency to ensure it was adequately treated . |
| 24 | This suggests , for example , that a new two-year bond issued at par would have to have a coupon of 10.25 per cent and that for a three-year bond ( with annual coupons ) trading at par the following equality holds ( see ( 5.10 ) ) : demonstrating that the YTM and the coupon are identical when a bond is trading at par . |
| 25 | However , if untraceable shareholders ( plus dissenting shareholders ) exceed that percentage and the procedures can not be implemented by the offeror as a result , the offeror will have to make an application to court under s430C ( 5 ) for an order for leave to give notices under s429 , despite the fact the 90 per cent threshold has not been reached . |
| 26 | Just like any other business , the workshops will have to make a profit . |
| 27 | Presumably workers will have to derive a trend path for the growth in real wages and calculate temporary changes in real wages as deviations from this trend line . |
| 28 | If indeed , as Le Figaro magazine has said , AIDS is a ‘ world war ’ , the definitive account of the war will have to wait a while . |
| 29 | He is also trying to finish a commerce degree at university , but the remarkable series of events which has seen South Africa catapulted into the cricketing limelight means that studies might have to take a back seat for at least 1992 . |
| 30 | Military planners have also developed a strategy for nuclear defence in which attacking missiles would have to run a gauntlet of several ‘ layers ’ of defence . |