Example sentences of "have [to-vb] most " in BNC.

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1 As the man who has to do most of the negotiating on single market measures , I know that there is still a long way to go .
2 The horse has to succeed most of the time to retain its self-esteem and to increase it .
3 Now that we 're going to Kinsai , they 'll have to supervise most of the preparations . ’
4 Sadly , the lack of a real craft tradition today means the architect may have to design most of it himself .
5 We 'd have to put most of it into investment trusts
6 Talking to our readers , Personnel Managers , we find that they 're having to force most of Britain 's bosses to take time off over less than a quarter of British managers regularly take all their holiday entitlement .
7 As members have to be given time to incorporate measures into national law , it follows that the Council of Ministers will have to complete most of its work by 1990 .
8 Obviously you will have to remove most of them eventually , at about 1″ , but by then you should have at least two more broods coming along behind to maintain the colony .
9 To maintain any form of quality and security in our environment and lives we would have to scrap most of our notions and tackle everything from different ends .
10 If you take any wild animal and keep it in captivity ( I would have to say most wild animals ; some insects might be taken into captivity without any suffering , but if you take vertebrates into captivity there is certainly going to be suffering ) , sometimes the animals will die very quickly after being brought into captivity , and again there is often an effect on the functioning of the immune system because they often succumb to diseases which would not otherwise have killed them .
11 The longer timescale comes from those who will have to spend most of the inquiry commuting to and from the Maltings at Snape to defend the CEGB 's case .
12 But I 'll tell you this much : she 'll have to spend most of her time with you 'cos I could n't put up with her round me feet all day . ’
13 The Independent of May 2 pointed out that with two minor cases concerning Urbatechnic going through the courts the commission " would probably have to declare most of Urba 's affairs sub judice and thus spare the socialists themselves " .
14 Because Granby House was a listed building , the contractor eventually became exempt from this tax , but as he could not reclaim any VAT he had already paid to suppliers , he had to pass most of it on to the developer .
15 But the family went downhill in the thirties — lost their money gambling and giving grand parties and travelling abroad , Hepzibah says — and in the end they had to sell most of their land , and the mine .
16 The corporation reported an annual loss of A$979,000,000 for the 1988-89 financial year , and subsequently had to sell most of its assets to reduce its debts .
17 Sheffield , like Rome , is built on seven hills and I had to cross most of them , anger fuelling my journey as I thought of all the excuses I 'd swallowed .
18 The St Kildans had to leave most of their sheep behind when they left the island , and these now run wild .
19 I had to read most of these shimmering sentences several times before their meaning began to settle ; and many , I have to say , never settled at all .
20 We had to get most of them out .
21 He worked full time but had to spend most of the rest of his life feeding himself intravenously .
22 Their education , he said , was irrelevant to their duties , their poverty such that they had to spend most of their time keeping body and soul together .
23 ‘ I had to take most of the deliveries near my head ’ , said Farbrace .
24 In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months .
25 What annoyed him though was that he had to make most of the preparations .
26 I do the background briefing but the clients have to do most of the work , and so I always tell them . ’
27 Hartmann ( 1979 ) argues that male workers are able to keep women out of the better jobs because of their organization , and that as a consequence women are obliged to marry on unfavourable terms , such that they have to do most of the housework .
28 ‘ Young workers have to take most of the risks and face the unrestricted and poor employment protection of adult workers , but get few of the benefits as most have no recourse to social protection when employment or training places are not available to them , ’ the report says .
29 ‘ Young workers have to take most of the risks and face the unrestricted and poor employment protection of adult workers , but get few of the benefits ’
30 Owners of hotels , guest houses , caravan parks and shops have to make most of their profit in a very short time .
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