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

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1 At the same time , Cincom announced that it has had to delay shipments of the new database until March 1993 — it had originally slated October as a release date .
2 Poland , with the worst financial problems within Eastern Europe , has had to delay construction of its first nuclear station at Zarnowiec which will have a total capacity of 4880 MW .
3 Hewlett-Packard Co has had to delay shipment of its new LaserJet 4L printer because of a defective part , US PC Week reports : the printer , originally set for general release May 3 , has been delayed until at least the end of this month , and possibly until mid-June , because of a flaw in the paper sensor , the company said ; the faulty sensor , which sits under the paper tray , causes the printer to communicate a ‘ paper out ’ message and stop printing , even though the tray has paper in it the firm said .
4 The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable .
5 Until now Pete 's paper-making company , Ecologically Sound Paper has had to import hemp pulp from Spain .
6 In the absence of any guarantees , Rangers may care to comfort themselves with the knowledge that the club have not lost a game in which McCoist has had to replace Richard Gough as team captain , the list including three previous European ties this season .
7 We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food .
8 The Darlington Lions charity bookshop has had to leave Priestgate because of the Cornmill development .
9 But he has failed in his great ambition , and perhaps the task was too much for a man who has had to spend time inventing a new identity for himself .
10 This is the first time a unit trust company has had to suspend funds under the Financial Services Act 's pricing regulations , which oblige it to cease trading once an error is suspected .
11 ... 21 AT London Scottish the role of providing rugby opportunities to Scots in London is still important , but in times of league realism , racial purity has had to give way to the expediency of also running a successful 1st XV .
12 Mr Young said he has had to sell stock he would prefer to keep in order to take advantage of new opportunities .
13 Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her .
14 Everyone has had to pay VAT increases and increased national insurance contributions .
15 It has had to rewrite aspects of law and order in order to gain support for its economic policies .
16 Anyone who has had to reglue chairs will be painfully aware of this fact .
17 Mr Dixon told the House that Francis Maude ( Con ) , financial secretary to the Treasury , has had to repay postage on 4,552 pre-paid envelopes .
18 Barrow has had to add Spencer Whelan , Craig Goodwin and Mark Limbert to the remaining fit 11 from the Brighton game , and could play himself against Rotherham .
19 Since 1984 the Justice Department has had authority to prosecute terrorists who attack Americans abroad , but the FBI has had to request permission from the host countries to return them to the US .
20 Going home to Europe , Mr Eliot has had to understand Europe ; he could not quite sufficiently be the European simply to feel that he was there ; he has been forced to envisage it with a reminiscent philosophy .
21 Ever since the Marquis of Mantua failed to defeat the French at Fornovo in the 1490s ( a period which must have been almost as barbaric and unpleasant as the 1980s ) , this sunsoaked land has had to endure invasion and rely on the assassin 's knife or the patriot 's bullet to even the score .
22 Skipper Tony Adams has had to endure donkey chants for years , but now right-back Lee Dixon is feeling the full force of terrace hate .
23 ‘ He has had to play kids because the cupboard is bare .
24 Sequent , for instance , has had to develop support for the VMEbus and streamline its memory functions , as well as modifying device drivers , to get NT running .
25 Unfortunately Aisling has had to have eye operations after developing glaucoma and this has prevented treatment resuming .
26 The ground now compares favourably with any , and remember every club without a sugar daddy of endless resources has had to make improvements .
27 While the rest of the City has had to relinquish self-regulation under the Financial Services Act , the Panel has continued as a non-statutory body .
28 Not only has this industry failed to invest in new-product development in the past , it has had to adopt electronics too .
29 He has had to accept Kazuo Aichi , the new environment minister , who took money from the Recruit company before the famous shares-for-favours scandal broke .
30 A hotelier has had to recruit chefs and waiters from France because he ca n't find anyone suitable here .
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