Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleight apologised for this state of affairs at the Congress in Dublin in 1895 : " It must be remembered that it is exceedingly difficult for the executive committee to meet together often , for every time they do so they have to bear their own travelling expenses , and sometimes hotel expenses ; and to whatever centre they are summoned , it only means that some members of the committee have to travel a considerable distance . |
| 2 | Man 's mind yearns for a rural existence — where 99.999% of his evolution occurred — but for many of us , mind and body have to take the daily buffets of urban , industrial civilization . |
| 3 | It is not self-evident that all clarifications or developments of the laws of war have to take the familiar form of multilateral conventions . |
| 4 | Delivery times for most items were generally satisfactory , but there appears to be a possibility that readers consulting early or rare books in the South Reading Room have to wait a considerable time for items ordered over the lunchtime period . |
| 5 | Academic researchers working in higher education have to convince the relevant committees in their institution that the work is important enough for scarce resources to be devoted to it . |
| 6 | The steeplechase course at Auteuil is a far cry from Newbury or Cheltenham , and the runners in the four-mile Grand Steeplechase have to negotiate a bewildering variety of obstacles : some of the fences are soft privet , to be jumped through rather than over ; there are two natural brooks , including the Rivière de la Tribune — four metres of water preceded by a hedge one metre high and one metre wide ; and then there is Le Bullfinch , a rail , ditch and fence on top of a stone wall . |
| 7 | The prosecution have to prove the four elements already mentioned , and no more . |
| 8 | Her objective is to keep him fit between shows , which in the Yorkshire Dales is not a problem ; the horses at Heyside Farm have to climb a substantial hill just to get from the stableyard to the road . |
| 9 | Donors frequently finance projects , or chunks of government expenditure such as part of the health service , to which recipient countries would in any case have to give a high priority , and this relieves government of that particular commitment . |
| 10 | Dressage is one of the hardest competitions for the horse and rider because the horse and rider have to perform a certain series of movements in an arena . |