Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [to-vb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 2 | Officials had to send for special chemicals to break down the tar and free the vehicles . |
| 3 | His office took up the slack , but the witnesses had to travel for 30 hours by bus to get there . |
| 4 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 5 | In October 1922 , employees ' wages were reduced by three shillings a week ! conditions at that time were severe ; men had to serve for several years on the seasonal staff before being taken on as a regular . |
| 6 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |