Example sentences of "[prep] having [to-vb] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sighing at the thought of having to leave the warmth and comfort of the fire , he rose and lifted his coat from the hook on the kitchen door , bracing himself against the cold stormy air , and strode off into the darkness . |
| 2 | And this is why we still carry the burden of having to control the chaos that might break forth should we allow those troubled depths of tempestuous passion to break the surface calm of ‘ normal , desire . |
| 3 | For the adherents of the new theory are faced with the prospect of having to abandon a theory that they feel to be right in the face of evidence which , at that stage , they are unable to reconcile with the new theory — when in fact in a decade or two they might well be able to do so . |
| 4 | Do n't be ashamed of having to re-write a sentence or paragraph several times to make your meaning still clearer . |
| 5 | Advisers are therefore more often finding themselves in the position of having to tell the client that they can not help in any material way . |
| 6 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 7 | This also means that the interviewers are relieved of the problem of having to remember what questions are to be asked and , even more , the interviewer is relieved of having to enter the responses after the interview has ended , as in the case when no notes are taken , or only sketchy abbreviations of replies are made during the interview . |
| 8 | A stressful situation , such as having to catch a train or make a speech , might make a normal person 's stomach churn a little , but in the IBS sufferer it can provoke a violent attack of diarrhoea . |
| 9 | It 's possible to give some help to the poor and needy of the world without having to give the dedication that Janet Lacey did . |
| 10 | This had the effect of statutory town planning taking root in an authority without having to persuade a council as to the merits ( and costs ) of scheme preparation . |
| 11 | The Soviet leadership , no doubt extremely relieved that Castro had succeeded in crushing the invasion without having to redeem the pledges that Khrushchev had made to him , extracted maximum propaganda value from Washington 's loss of face , but once again reassured the Americans that ‘ we have no bases in Cuba and do not intend to establish any ’ ( Khrushchev 's message to J. F. Kennedy , 22 April 1961 , US Department of State Bulletin , 8 May 1961 , pp. 664–6 ) . |
| 12 | I think she 's suffered enough humiliation without having to endure the knowledge that her son is aware of it . |
| 13 | If these countries felt they were being exploited by having to run a surplus and thus provide finance for the US deficit , such behaviour would be quite incomprehensible . |