Example sentences of "[noun] have [to-vb] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be lovely to have the most expensive of everything at your reception , but we are only too aware that most people planning a wedding have to run a pretty tight budget . |
| 2 | In order to prevent a drain of young English cricketers to South Africa during the winter , the TCCB has to provide a suitably well-rewarded alternative and it is in this area that Subba Row 's successor will need to shine . |
| 3 | Tolkien had to take a rather strict line over ‘ myth ’ . |
| 4 | Half had been discharged quite recently from an acute psychiatric admission ward — hostels provide a cheap and available alternative to a permanent home and avoid the mental health teams having to plan a more satisfactory discharge . |
| 5 | To cope with this , the father has to take a very active part in housekeeping and child-rearing , violating traditional conceptions of gender roles . |
| 6 | Some analysts argue that the result is deceptive because only successful beaches applied this year , while others claim that the number of winners has fallen because beaches had to meet a much stricter test on bacteria in the water . |
| 7 | To justify that , people have to set a very high price on the environmental costs of landfill . |
| 8 | In the Dusun language every clause has to have a grammatically marked topic ( i.e. the person or thing about which something is said ) , which is determined by the larger context ( at discourse level ) . |
| 9 | What plans do the Government have to introduce a more balanced development throughout the Province ? |
| 10 | Without resources , unable to earn a living , at the mercy of at least two Federal agencies determined to silence him by one means or another , and now set up as a government-approved target for any stray kook or fanatic , Coleman had to find a more defensible position . |
| 11 | Any of Steen 's friends might ring him , so the message had to have a more general application . |
| 12 | Business men who are borrowers naturally want lower interest rates , but I am afraid that the Government have to take a rather broader view of what is in the interests of the economy . |
| 13 | The main line was not built beyond Lydham Heath , neither was this proposed second junction , so that for the whole of its feeble existence the railway retained the wrong junction here and every train in each direction had to make a highly inconvenient reversal at this point . |
| 14 | They had to reconcile the interests of poor peasants with the larger national goals of providing for the war and this meant that how the C C P had to take a more moderate erm policy . |
| 15 | Even that piece of teaching was n't enough ; Paul had to use a very rare word , to make it clear that God 's power to answer prayer was n't limited in any way . |
| 16 | ‘ The public interest has to take a much wider view than that . ’ |
| 17 | This is the so-called ‘ poverty-trap ’ of the lower paid : a small increase in earning takes them over a threshold , whereby they may lose certain welfare benefits and at the same time have to pay a disproportionately large increase in tax on their original income . |