Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To work with a company where you have to teach the basic idea of the movement is an interesting challenge . ’ |
| 2 | Or on this one or you have to have the other one ? |
| 3 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 4 | He neglected all his duties and so there was nothing for it , either we had to wipe him off as a son , which is an impossible thing for a parent to do , or we had to decide the only other course open to us which was to kidnap him and have him de-programmed . |
| 5 | Not that I have to make the same choices as someone I acknowledge to be more discriminating , since my differently constituted palate may react differently , but my own choice will be better informed if I heed nuances which I would have missed if he had not pointed them out . |
| 6 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 7 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 8 | This grandmother was a lasting influence , ‘ because she always insisted that you had to have the best of everything . |
| 9 | I always knew that you had to have the important artists around too . |
| 10 | But the idea that you have to see the original film is misplaced and outmoded . |
| 11 | Is n't the problem that you have to replace the whole unit if something goes wrong ? |
| 12 | Ladies , you must be keenly interested in the rental of your home , especial ! y now that you have to pay the increased rate . |
| 13 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 14 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 15 | Certain things were asserted beyond peradventure : namely , that we had to get the public-sector borrowing-requirement down , because if it went up or stayed up it would keep interest rates up . |
| 16 | Well , there are always possible alternative forecasts that we might make , but on the whole I think we know that we have to decide the best possible forecast that we can give , and , well , when I say ‘ the best ’ , the most erm confident forecast that we can push out erm with the information that we have available . |
| 17 | IT is with great sadness that we have to announce the premature death , on , of , 's production planning manager . |
| 18 | Secondly the , the constraint reduces the opportunity that we have to pursue the ethical investment policies which will have regard to the aims and objectives of the Council as a whole , and then lastly there is the matter of practicality . |
| 19 | ‘ Once the quads were born , everything stopped , except we had to get the top floor converted into a nursery , ’ John said . |
| 20 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 21 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 22 | Gatting made the point that they had to win the final two games as after so much cricket they simply did not have the strength left for a third . |
| 23 | ‘ What people are concerned about is that , if they train certifieds or AATs , they do n't have to cope with the bureaucracy , they do n't have to be formal training offices and so they do n't have to be quite so concerned that they have to provide the right sort of additional courses for people to attend to back up their exams . |
| 24 | Pensioners will believe that they have to pay the full amount unless they query it with their local authority or unless the authority has a list . |
| 25 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 26 | ‘ It got dark Saturday afternoon while they were out hiking , so they had to use the Secret Service to find their way back down again . ’ |
| 27 | The Ndorrobo were not allowed to own cattle so they had to hunt the unappetizing wild game , something a Masai would never do . |
| 28 | That uncertainty will mean that the City of London will lose any aspirations that it has to accommodate the central European bank . |
| 29 | The dream grew faster and faster and more and more desperate , because he knew that he had to reach the last box before the end of the day . |
| 30 | Muhammad believed that he had to reform the old pagan religion of al-Llah , the High God of the Arabs . |