Example sentences of "[conj] have [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the experts say that has to start with the teenage nation . |
| 2 | 3 It hopes to allow , and induce , students to work at the pace best suited to them as individuals , rather than having to proceed at the standard class rate . |
| 3 | Part of the reason they do so is cultural and has to do with the elective affinity of their habituses with postmodern culture . |
| 4 | In an official statement put out yesterday , Sangster said cryptically : ‘ It is a sad decision , but it no longer makes any sense keeping the place and having to stay in the local pub when we visit . ’ |
| 5 | Hence the weedkiller train could not be put into the loop and had to remain on the main line , being put right up to the buffer stop because a passenger train was due . |
| 6 | ‘ I voted for Al Gore for Vice President and had to vote for the other fellow to get his ( Gore 's ) name , ’ Mr Clinton told a neighbour as reporters listened in . |
| 7 | The Burrows children were expected to be examples to the other youngsters in the corps , and had to sit in the front seats of any hall they attended , where Captain Burrows could keep his eagle eye on them . |
| 8 | Listen , listen very carefully shh , because this is important to get right , erm , because the assign because the assignments are part of your degree mark , and have to go to the external examiner , and has to be monitored etcetera etcetera etcetera , it 's all quite formal and so we do need to get this right . |
| 9 | The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it . |
| 10 | If a given thing x is related to a given thing y , it is argued , this must be seen as having to do with the intrinsic nature of x , and the intrinsic nature of x can , in the final analysis , be fully understood only as a feature of the whole to which it and everything else belongs . |