Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [to-vb] [pron] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 George Pulman , QC , a member of the Bar Council 's working party on contingent fees , told a conference workshop on financing litigation that unlike other forms of contingency fee arrangement , lawyers would have no personal interest in the outcome of litigation and there would be no ‘ legal aid blackmail ’ — where cases are legally aided the normal ‘ costs follow the event ’ rule does not apply and defendants have to meet their own costs even when they win .
2 He raised the tension from episode to episode until the mill girls of the north and midlands had to buy their own copies rather than waiting to borrow one .
3 During the years of arms embargo , the South Africans had to develop their own arms industry .
4 Also like police court trials , witnesses had to pay their own expenses , even though they sometimes had to travel long distances , especially when a trial was postponed several times .
5 Indeed in one practice I visited the patients held a Tupperware party to raise money to ‘ help ’ their practice — believing that fundholding meant that the practitioners had to raise their own funds .
6 At a recent Thames rodeo the ladies had to provide their own rescues in a heat as the rescue boats had packed up and gone for a brawl !
7 The ensuing dilemma that arts educators find themselves in is no less than the struggle to transform reality into something which more fully reflects the astounding potential that both boys and girls have to construct their own lives ; to make their own mark .
8 There was nothing there — men had to make their own markers or monuments , and eventually they had to build an entire landscape of monuments .
9 Most travellers had to make their own arrangements with coach , railway or shipping companies .
10 The government certainly had no money to spare to help the colonies , and this introduced the general rule that English colonies had to cover their own costs , both in the sense that the government of a colony had to raise enough revenue to pay its own bills and in the sense that there were no subsidies to encourage people to stay in a colony where they could not earn their own living .
11 Secondly , students have to make their own connections in understanding what they experience on their programme of studies .
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