Example sentences of "[verb] had [to-vb] some " in BNC.

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1 However , with cash in short supply , Dolphin has had to put some of its own SCI product development on hold for the time being , until , as it hopes more cash comes rolling in .
2 Indeed , because of deficiencies , the Air Force has had to change some of its plans for the bomber and may have to dish out an extra $1 billion to correct the problems .
3 Within this climate , the management has had to make some difficult decisions .
4 The traditionalist camp has had to swallow some bitter pills .
5 Sometimes , however , he emerged wearing an unmistakably henpecked look , muttering something about having had to do some ‘ domestic engineering ’ — his name for housework .
6 If we had actually wanted to use them we would have had to do some tidying as the area of the bromide was somewhat less than A4 .
7 To enter this eventful activity in 1986 , the prospective owner would have had to find some $45 million to have a VLCC of 250,000 tonnes built new .
8 For example , a student chosen might have had to overcome some specific learning difficulty to gain success in modules ; another might have achieved success despite little previous exposure to formal further education .
9 In order to be accorded the title of Messiah , and acclaimed as such by the populace , Jesus would have had to possess some legitimate claim .
10 Most temporary workers were fired as well as hired , and the implication is that if they had not been used the organisations concerned would have had to practise some other form of " hire and fire " strategy .
11 How marvellous it was to be free ; how appalling it would have been to have had to wash some man 's socks and cope with his whingeing children .
12 Martinho had had to do some quick talking but none of them had been executed on the spot .
13 Daddy , she said , had had to spring some people ori them for dinner , and she was out of some basics .
14 We 've had to do some very uncomfortable things to put the country on an even keel for the future .
15 Well we 've brought the two leagues together and amalgamated them and to do this , obviously the old British League was much stronger than the old National League , and we 've had to do some evening out .
16 It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ .
17 And I said , well , you know , overall it 's gon na be what we said , you know I said , we I 've tried to meet your targets , I said , but I 've had to increase some up fart higher than others you know .
18 As far as the capital receipt money goes , not all , it 's not been possible to spend all of that this year because the development of some of these urban traffic calming schemes is actually very complicated and we 've had to re-think some of them .
19 I 've had to buy some really horrible ones !
20 However , since then there have been further reviews and proposals which have had to take some cognisance of the creation of the single market .
21 As a consequence we have had to revise some of the premium rates applying to various sections of your Policy .
22 The car washing and laundry activities have had to move some way up the bank .
23 And as both issues and potential issuers of traditional domestic bonds have declined , so British institutional investors have had to overcome some initial reluctance and look to eurosterling issues as a source of non-gilt fixed-interest assets .
24 It 's good news if we do it on a fixed fee and say , we have had to enhance some of our rates
25 Regrettably , theft losses from people 's homes have gone up alarmingly , particularly in the larger towns and cities and , as a result , we have had to increase some of our rates .
26 We have had to make some changes to our programme .
27 First of all , though , I must apologise because we have had to make some changes to the staffing for our next training day on 22nd September .
28 Unfortunately we have had to make some slight changes to the programme today , but hope you will like the idea of all learning something to perform for the final part of the Reunion in November .
29 The Germans have had to accept some unpleasant facts such as French posession of nuclear weapons that are stationed on German frontiers as if their main purpose was to prevent a repeat of 1870 , 1914 , and 1940 .
30 But he 's had to close some of the deeper galleries which only pot holers use , because of the build up of toxic gasses .
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