Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bird brains A Welsh rugby team had to play a Spanish soccer team during a tour , after a language mix-up in arranging the game . |
| 2 | Councillors arriving for Leominster 's Planning Committee meeting had to walk a silent gauntlet of children and parents to get to the council chamber . |
| 3 | The adherents to the Peace Alliance had to undergo a serious reorientation in their political attitudes . |
| 4 | Debra Busuttil will never have another baby because after labour was induced for the dead child doctors had to perform a life-saving hysterectomy . |
| 5 | In general , an aggro leader has to show a distinct sense of fearlessness — he has to be a ‘ hard case ’ . |
| 6 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 7 | In actual competition , taekwondo exponents have to wear a specific , padded body armour , which is a sleeveless jacket fastened at the back with cord ties . |
| 8 | In university libraries the organization of staff for book provision has to resolve a major difficulty — the respective roles of university departments vis-à-vis the library staff . |
| 9 | It was not possible to vary this , because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism . |
| 10 | During training Catherine had to acquire a few hair-raising skill such as flying upside down and rescuing the aircraft from a stall . |
| 11 | Additionally , each Health Authority had to identify a local person with responsibility for implementing management development strategies . |
| 12 | ‘ Every month the city verderers have to deliver a fat buck for the Dean 's kitchen ; in thanksgiving the Dean and Chapter perform this dance . ’ |
| 13 | Hire purchase , credit sale and conditional sale advertising had to give a comprehensive picture of costs ( if it mentioned any financial terms ) , and any interest rate it quoted had to approximate to a true annual rate of interest , but the formula used was different from the one in the Moneylenders Acts . |
| 14 | Bassetlaw 's community care services have to reach a scattered , mainly rural population |
| 15 | The support worker has to create a delicate balance between giving advisers the ‘ answer ’ for a client and directing them to the relevant part of the information system . |
| 16 | In another series of cases the Court has condemned national laws which require undertakings which are licensed to carry out particular activities in one member state having to obtain a second licence to provide the same services in another member state where the licensing requirements in the first member state adequately safeguard all necessary requirements for the protection of the public interest . |
| 17 | The school was the last to close in 1968 and now primary school children have to make a four mile return journey to Middleton-on-the-Wolds . |
| 18 | To gain and maintain his hold over the Company Sulivan had to become a formidable politician and he inevitably made many enemies . |
| 19 | In the early part of 1990 there was a run of particularly low tides , one of which resulted in a boatyard in Sant'Elena , on the north-eastern edge of Venice , burning to a cinder because the fire boats had to take a roundabout route . |
| 20 | Registered VAT payers have to present a three-monthly return ( not synchronized between stages ) on which all output tax and input tax is declared for the period and the net tax paid . |