Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] have [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 LABOUR last night accused the Conservatives of having to do an embarrassing U-turn over home ownership .
2 Though she speaks wistfully of the luxury of ‘ blue sky research ’ , Beverley sees advantages in having to adopt a commercial perspective as well as a purely scientific one .
3 Clayson ( para. 15.05 ) was of the view that small voluntary organisations should be able to supply alcoholic liquor at functions without having to find a willing certificate-holder , and should be able to gain some financial benefit from the sale of liquor to members .
4 Because Windows applications share common operational techniques , you can move easily between applications without having to learn a different set of commands for each .
5 You can then eliminate all but the genuinely suitable applicants without having to interview an enormous number of people in person .
6 Spenser approves this because it does not drain English resources through having to keep a large standing army in Ireland .
7 Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture .
8 His ignorance of what she feels about his ‘ human kindness ’ — she rejects any ‘ compunctious visiting of nature ’ ( 44 ) — makes him a victim , or accomplice , who has to be instructed in hypocrisy : One of Shakespeare 's problems in having to develop an evil conspiracy in the absence of any vocal moral commentary on it is to make it judge or condemn itself .
9 I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs .
10 IT 'S bad enough paying crippling interest rates without having to pay an annual fee on top of that but if you shop around you can avoid the charge .
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