Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 2 | My position as warden means that I have to spend a fair amount of time in the office , dealing with correspondence and the large amount of information that our fieldwork generates . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 6 | Mr Bailey told her that she had to wear a special white coat , some special shoes and a white hat . |
| 7 | She recognized that she had to make a sensible framework of her own . |
| 8 | Finally , remember that you had to put a considerable amount of effort into learning the skills that you have today . |
| 9 | This grandmother was a lasting influence , ‘ because she always insisted that you had to have the best of everything . |
| 10 | I always knew that you had to have the important artists around too . |
| 11 | But the idea that you have to see the original film is misplaced and outmoded . |
| 12 | Is n't the problem that you have to replace the whole unit if something goes wrong ? |
| 13 | The only down side for the solicitor is that you have to give a free half-hour interview to anyone coming to see you under the scheme , though most firms of solicitors nowadays will give this service in any event . |
| 14 | I think the main ingredient for success is that you have to have a good sense of timing . |
| 15 | ‘ The whole cultural situation in Oxford is such that you have to have a certain degree of power or influence of money to be admitted to any social sphere , ’ he fumes . |
| 16 | The problem with this — magnetic doughnut ’ is that you have to build a huge machine to produce the energy needed for a power station . |
| 17 | This does not mean that you have to pay a whole team of specialists anything up to £600 a day each . |
| 18 | Ladies , you must be keenly interested in the rental of your home , especial ! y now that you have to pay the increased rate . |
| 19 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And as I say , we believe that we have to have a federal structure and we believe in m democracy throughout Europe and throughout Britain . |
| 26 | If any are received erm by the cutoff date , then it has to be my my submission that we have to have a reasonable time to respond . |
| 27 | IT is with great sadness that we have to announce the premature death , on , of , 's production planning manager . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 30 | 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 . |