Example sentences of "have to tell [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If it has to tell a story , he wrote , it will be the story of the machine inside the ghost , of the ghost animated by the machine .
2 To retrieve data the controller has to tell the drive to move its heads , one track at a time , to the requisite track and where to start reading on that track .
3 No one has to tell the England manager he got it terribly wrong with his selection for the European championship matches in Sweden .
4 If anyone has to tell the story of Ana de Santis I want it to be you . ’
5 It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM .
6 It can only be proceeded with with the government 's consent , and before going into committee the appropriate Minister has to tell the House that the proposed spending has the government 's approval .
7 But it develops a conscience , and has to tell the Emperor the truth .
8 ‘ So many people agree with others for the sake of it but Eric ca n't do that and he has to tell the truth and say what he 's feeling even if that is ‘ no ’ and it upsets people .
9 One of the benefits of making an acquisition has to be that duplicated positions can be eliminated , and NCR Corp has had to tell a total of 284 employees at two Teradata and two NCR locations in Southern California that they are surplus to requirements .
10 In Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union a majority of the Court of Appeal held that a disciplinary committee of a trade union did not have to tell a shop steward why they had refused to endorse his election , and in McInnes v. Onslow-Fane it was held that the council of the Boxing Board of Control did not have to give an applicant for a manager 's licence an outline of their objections to him .
11 Fenella pulled the velvet folds of the cover about her and tried to sleep and not to think about what would happen and whether they would be let out of these rooms and what stories she might have to tell the Gruagach about Star People and the Fire Court and the other fictional places they were supposed to have travelled to .
12 She did n't have to tell the girl .
13 ‘ We 'll have to tell the mistress her husband 's still alive .
14 Did he have to tell the others what to do ?
15 Er but we shall er we shall say , this is your home address because we shall have to tell the council , but er you 're not here , you 're at Steve 's .
16 Under the terms of your mortgage , you will probably have to tell the lender that you have taken a tenant , and may then be charged a higher rate of interest .
17 What direction would you have to tell the captain to steer if you were the navigator ?
18 He would have to tell the truth . ’
19 The guru or the spiritual director will have to tell the novice when he has reached the limits of his ability .
20 Providing I know nothing incriminating against you , I do n't have to tell the police a thing . ’
21 We 'll have to tell the police ; even if he is … even if he was …
22 Fagin described the hanging in terrifying detail , and said that he hoped he would never have to tell the police about Oliver — and see Oliver with a rope around his neck .
23 They 'll have to tell the President .
24 One of the clever and pleasing touches about this process is that you do n't have to tell the program which lead you 're using .
25 Having to tell a teacher you have been naughty at home .
26 Seton had hardly spoken to any since his son 's death ; Gray was never loquacious ; and Ramsay not only again felt something like guilt at deserting Berwick in its hour of need , but did not relish having to tell the Randolph sisters the terrible news and the possibility that their brother might be one of the casualties .
27 Adoption can be seen as the logical answer to infertility , but as Brebner et al ( 1985 ) point out , if medical investigations/treatment for infertility fail and are performed without adequate psychological support , the subsequent depression and disappointment can cause couples to jump at adoption without recognising those aspects of parenthood which are peculiar to adoptive parenthood , which include : having to be assessed and monitored ; absence of pregnancy and birth ; becoming attached to a child born to someone else ; having to tell the child he or she is adopted .
28 It 's about the only time I really hate the job , you know — with accidents and so on … having to tell the relatives , and all that . ’
29 Advisers are therefore more often finding themselves in the position of having to tell the client that they can not help in any material way .
30 I regret to have to tell the House that a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded in Musgrave Park hospital at 3.53 pm last Saturday , killing two soldiers and injuring 11 other people , among them a five-year-old girl and a baby of four months .
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