Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To receive protection under the 1976 Act , an agricultural employee has to achieve the legal status of ‘ qualifying worker ’ , which requires that the person has worked at least 91 out of the preceding 104 weeks whole-time in agriculture . |
| 2 | Considerations of finance are important in relation to that , because I do not believe that British Rail has to build an underground station in order to achieve its purpose . |
| 3 | Different groups had to lift the positive flap just a little ( half an inch ) or rather more ( up to seven inches ) ; thus the groups differed not in whether they had received pre-training with the cues but in the magnitude of the response acquired . |
| 4 | Licensed deposit-takers had to meet the same requirements , but did not need to offer as wide a range of services . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the students of Paris saw to it that the French President had to beat an undignified and premature retreat from Bucharest . |
| 6 | However , interested parties have to fulfil the following prerequisites : |
| 7 | Informed parents have to choose the lesser of two evils , and usually choose to prevent the birth of the affected fetus , but the decision can sometimes be very difficult . |
| 8 | Informed parents have to make a difficult choice . |
| 9 | Public companies have to publish an annual report and accounts . |
| 10 | British officals have to tread a fine line between registering the ‘ UK dimension ’ , as they call it , in the Trident debate , and not offending Congressmen by being too heavy-handed . |
| 11 | The inability of the States of Western Europe to play a decisive role in the solution of these new questions was shown clearly by the impotent resentment with which the French government had to watch the first partition of Poland in 1772 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 1783–84 . |
| 12 | In places , the Serbian army had to ask the local Serbian militia permission to visit the camps . |
| 13 | The freewheeling diode has to withstand a reverse voltage equal to the d.c. supply voltage when the transistor is conducting and it must conduct a peak forward current equal to the rated phase current when the transistor first turns off . |
| 14 | No such guide was available : consumers wanting advance weekly information had to buy the individual guides to their own programmes published by the RTE , the BBC and ITV . |
| 15 | As well as putting a ceiling on cases of average tetraplegia , the effect of the decision in Housecroft 's case has meant that awards in less serious cases have to bear a proportional relationship to the guideline figure for tetraplegia . |
| 16 | By 1876 applicants for the German civil service had to pass a special exam in German culture , and German was compulsory in virtually every aspect of public life . |
| 17 | A few miles north of Thurlstone the new textile settlement at Clayton West had chapels for the Wesleyans , Independents , Particular Baptists , Methodist New Connection and Primitive Methodists , and the new Wesleyan Reform movement met in Aaron Peace 's warehouse , but those who preferred the services of the established church had to climb the steep hill to the ancient parochial centre at High Hoyland . |
| 18 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
| 19 | The developing nervous system has to solve a similar problem — how does each nerve cell know where to find the other cells it must contact ? |
| 20 | For instance , there was no prescription charge for diabetes sufferers although people with cystic fibrosis had to pay the full amount for their drugs . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , most elderly people have to suffer a considerable drop in their income after retirement , and careful planning and budgeting is required to maintain a reasonable standard of living . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Poor Gedge had to attend the local infirmary where his misery was compounded when nurses found out he was in a band . |
| 24 | Where handwritten texts are at issue , it is often the case that the individual reproducing the text in a printed version has to make a considerable effort of interpretation to assign a value to some of the less legible words . |
| 25 | I still regret it , but I 'm afraid the Prime Minister has to appear a great deal on the media . |
| 26 | Any legal system has to have an ideological base which represents an ideological alliance between the ruling class and other classes and class fractions . |
| 27 | These marooned populations had to make a big evolutionary adjustment . |
| 28 | Dead empires have bred leaping ambition ; international politics has developed into a struggle between competing ethnic groups ; the United Nations has to pick an impossible path between respect for sovereignty and respect for nationalism . |
| 29 | Finally , the clinical teacher has to maintain a good relationship with patients and relatives . |
| 30 | It also insisted that the North Korean government had to accept the full list of names and guarantee the safe return of all who made the trip . |