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

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1 Ms Stacey said : ‘ It is a national pastime and the islanders have to take responsibility for the slaughter .
2 Shetlanders would maintain that in the past individual incomers had to become part of the local community : now they no longer needed to .
3 When young children have to be looked after it reduces the opportunities that parents have to take part in the social round .
4 In the Soviet Union the emphasis on ‘ socialist legality ’ meant that the interests of particular individuals had to give way to the interests of society as a whole as interpreted by the party and government .
5 If adopted before 1975 , adoptees have to receive counselling about the implications of a trace , since birth parents placed the child for adoption with no expectation of subsequent contact .
6 The price of such goods is less than it would be if producers had to take account of the external costs associated with the production of the good .
7 If debt rather than tax finance is adopted , then future taxpayers have to pay interest on the debt , but this is purely a transfer payment .
8 But irrespective of the legal position , the character of the teaching process is such that higher education teachers have to pay attention to the expectations and perceptions of their students .
9 Foals have to become part of the herd immediately after birth in order to gain the protection of the herd from lions and hyenas .
10 In Tbilisi , the police had to mount guard over the city 's Lenin statue to prevent its uprooting .
11 All issues have to have approval from the Bank of England if they are to be re-discountable at the Bank of England and attain eligible status .
12 However Lord Denning was quick to point out that although local authorities had to have regard to the Code , they could depart from it if they thought fit .
13 And given the prevailing prejudice against people actually speaking to each other , suitors and their intended sposi had to have recourse to the ambiguous and easily misunderstood language of fans and flowers .
14 Any new planting was designed to be phased in over a period of years , planting schemes having to take account of the need to create a distinctive landscape for the immediate future as well as for the long term .
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