Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 2 | The SJP lads had to rely on a topsy-turvy 6–21 , 21–8 , 22–20 victory for league stalwart John Wickers over Peter Hance to secure their share of the points from the last game of the evening . |
| 3 | In the absence of some specification which states how long a product should last under normal use without manifesting defects ( whether or not due to normal wear and tear ) , the parties have to resort to the express or implied warranties of merchantable quality , or the express or implied rights of rejection . |
| 4 | The Branches have to depend upon the voluntary support of the membership to fulfil what many see as their prime role , and where once the polytechnics were able heavily to subsidise a service of CPD seminars or even help run an ‘ in-house ’ programme , they can no longer operate in this way and have to charge for the events on a full cost basis . |
| 5 | Despite the concern for promoting reflectiveness among teachers , their in-service opportunities have to compete with a week-by-week preoccupation with in-school organization — modifying the management plan , feeding information back into the cycle of formative teaching and testing and balancing the books in order to cover one more curriculum or non-curriculum speciality . |
| 6 | Nocturnal animals have to cope with the same difficulty , and many creatures have developed ways of gathering the maximum amount of light . |
| 7 | All of these elements had to compete for a limited number of unfilled vacancies in Mendeleev 's Periodic Table , like contestants in a game of cosmic musical chairs . |
| 8 | I suppose parents have to put on a brave face . |
| 9 | The rats have to turn in a certain direction in a T-maze in order not to be electrically shocked or in order to be fed . |
| 10 | But it was this very exploitation — the fact , for example , that immigrant workers had to live in the deprived and decaying areas of big cities because of the proximity of their jobs to these areas , which led to their being regarded increasingly as undesirable . |
| 11 | A week later , when the workers had to vote for the new Committee , most of the women voted for Karen . |
| 12 | Chief executive Mr Baker , 54 , saw his earnings increase from £135,911 to £383,935 while his workers had to settle for a 5.5 per cent wage rise . |
| 13 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 14 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 15 | The snag in the new venture is that , once again , participants have to travel to a special studio room in a hotel in London or New York . |
| 16 | Whatever the cause of failure , help to families has to operate on a wide front . |
| 17 | British Rail recently put fares up on the affected routes saying customers had to pay for the vast improvements they 'd made . |
| 18 | In a sense , then , little had changed , as the managers had to resort to the old method of cajoling the workforce to extract maximum effort . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the farmers had to sell at a controlled price and vast sums were retained by Britain , exporting cocoa for dollars . |
| 20 | Sadly , Fiji , unable to pay the travel bill , had to pull out of the tournament , while the organisers had to chip in a hefty contribution to secure the presence of the New Zealanders . |
| 21 | ( 8 ) The more female ducks the males have to look at the more time they spend looking at them . |
| 22 | While small farmers and part-time farmers have to adapt to a changing agriculture , in exactly the same way as large farming businesses , their options for coping with changed circumstances are fewer and it may be that training and the development of new skills and the reinforcement of old skills are important elements in widening their range of options . |
| 23 | Much more data are collected than it is possible to publish , and access to this additional information is just not possible — indeed its existence may not be known or recorded , with the result that future researchers and revisers have to go through the whole data collection procedure again each time . |
| 24 | University departments operating within close margins with respect to staffing and clinical resources have to rely on a large measure of good will to achieve continued high standards in teaching and evaluation , which can be difficult to sustain if , for example , reappointments of staff are delayed . |
| 25 | Thus a computer catalogue could print out on demand all the items of which Dr Rhodes Boyson was the author ; or those which had his name in the title ; or all the items having to do with a specific topic , even something so very specific as " The effect of solvents on the killing of bacteria by phenol " ; or all the items in tape-slide format ; or all the items published in Bletchley in 1975 . |
| 26 | If the parents and their witnesses had to travel to the Scottish mainland , this would involve them not only in time away they could n't spare , but also travelling and accommodation expenses . |
| 27 | The opening ceremony , set for last May , was cancelled , and local activists had to remain on the original walls while gazing up in wonder at the spectacular treat they were being denied . |
| 28 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 29 | Election ‘ 92 : What the main players had to say about a hung parliament |
| 30 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he or my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment had a meeting with business leaders to discuss the policy of the minimum wage , they would tell both the House and the country what business leaders had to say about the damaging effect on jobs that such a minimum wage would have ? |