Example sentences of "[noun] have [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carlie had to go to the foster home because she could n't get along with her stepfather . |
| 2 | In the absence of some specification which states how long a product should last under normal use without manifesting defects ( whether or not due to normal wear and tear ) , the parties have to resort to the express or implied warranties of merchantable quality , or the express or implied rights of rejection . |
| 3 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 4 | In a sense , then , little had changed , as the managers had to resort to the old method of cajoling the workforce to extract maximum effort . |
| 5 | It comes about that the merchant has to go to the fair at Bruges on his business , and while he spends part of a day before departure in his counting-house reviewing his affairs the monk meets and converses with the wife . |
| 6 | If the parents and their witnesses had to travel to the Scottish mainland , this would involve them not only in time away they could n't spare , but also travelling and accommodation expenses . |
| 7 | One of the most enduring memories is of the Labour Government having to go to the International Monetary Fund , ‘ cap in hand ’ , to ask for a loan to prop up the UK 's sagging economy . |
| 8 | Science has to cling to the available evidence even in the teeth of seeming contradiction . |
| 9 | It stipulated that at least 60 per cent of lending had to go to the private sector , and no more than 40 per cent to infrastructure projects . |
| 10 | The budget had to respond to the two challenges of tax reform and resumption of debt service payments , he said . |
| 11 | For a time the eastern empire was able to maintain itself in Italy , but thereafter the popes had to look to the new Frankish power in the north for their temporal defences . |
| 12 | But the distribution rules said shares or discounts had to go to the first named . |
| 13 | This was recognised by Sir Ernest Gowers in The Complete Plain Words : [ L ] egal draftsmen have to ensure to the best of their ability that what they say will be found to mean precisely what they intended , even after it has been subjected to detailed and possibly hostile scrutiny by acute legal minds … |
| 14 | The first lecture was on Comus ( subsequent talks on Milton had to move to the large lecture-room at the Taylorian Institute , the Divinity Schools being too small ) . |
| 15 | These grades have to conform to the normal curve of distribution . |