Example sentences of "have to make [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 While the rest of America has to make do with a fridge full of beer and a chair at screen-side , the two participating cities are permitted a temporary suspension of reason for this the first Bay Bridge Series .
2 Dr Collins has the great advantage of being allowed to go out and get new fossils from the Burgess site — everyone else has to make do with what is already in museums .
3 And while other babies can splash happily in warm baths , little Heidi has to make do with a quick sponge-down in a grubby public toilet .
4 For the historian of modern urbanization , scores of cities are available for direct inspection , while the ancient historian has to make do with a few fortuitous survivals .
5 She has to make do with what she 's got … that 's if she 's a nice girl , of course .
6 He had had to make do with friends ' children , many of whom were his godchildren .
7 We 'd have liked to try the LSE with Lowden 's new preamp system complete with volume and treble/bass controls on the upper bout , but none were available at the time and we 've had to make do with the non-controlled version .
8 He has had to make do without his familiar retinue of civil servants and , as plenty of critics from his own side have pointed out , he neither looks nor sounds like a prime minister .
9 Since then I have had to make do as best I might , to support you .
10 Meanwhile black youths looking for novels that reflect their own experience have had to make do with poetic accounts of life back in the Caribbean , or black gangster pulp imported from the States .
11 But we had had to make do with black crepe paper , which was the next best thing .
12 As it is , Richard , previously the Rugby Correspondent of the Western Daily Press in Bristol , has had to make do with a bottle of Glenfiddich …
13 Previously , we 've had to make do with mediocre collections of clip-art or fun things like Kid Pix .
14 Year in , year out , Bob and I have had to make do with one rotten reconditioned typewriter between us .
15 Rangers , of course , have had to make do without Gough on numerous occasions this season because of injury and , while acknowledging that he is inspirational , they have not found the loss costly .
16 Des will be cleared from quarantine on November 6 so until then , he will have to make do with a weekly Saturday visit from Dave and fellow home-based squadron mates Corporals Brian McCourt and Richard Starkey .
17 So you 'll have to make do with scones . ’
18 ( I could n't get Tony Benn to comment on that one so we 'll have to make do with Radio One 's Janice Long ) .
19 However , in practice insufficient weight is often given to this aspect of a recruitment policy , so that a firm committed to an internal promotion policy will have to make do with available talent for future promotions .
20 We will have to make do with post hoc evaluations .
21 Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership .
22 Accepting that eventually two professors would be necessary , the meeting felt that in its then poor financial state the College might have to make do with one professor plus one subordinate teacher .
23 So , at best , they will have to make do with tuning into the programme in stereo .
24 As the millennium dawns , it will have to make do with Kakania , with all its phoney festas of civic pride and national unity .
25 There are certain books , in almost any field , that are so rare that the collector is very unlikely to find a copy in good condition and , perforce , will have to make do with second , third , or tenth best .
26 Still , never mind — we will just have to make do with animal furs and leather where we are going .
27 Others will have to make do with deliveries in the tens or hundreds depending on who they are .
28 ‘ He ca n't come so you 'll have to make do with me .
29 I 'd get a brand new keyboard and Dad would have to make do with an old car — one that was always going wrong and making him embarrassed in front of his friends .
30 You 'll have to make do with this . ’
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