Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Given the already appalling and growing rate of homelessness and lack of hostel facilities in London , when more people than ever will not only have to endure the freezing nights of the coming winter on the streets , but perhaps permanent homelessness , it was terrible to see the situation being exploited for a joke by your advertisement : ‘ Just the thing now the evenings are drawing in .
2 While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name .
3 While it was generally considered to be difficult to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered .
4 And we 're gon na have , obviously have to avoid the two Sundays from the tour .
5 I ask this not because I believe that he does n't care passionately about Mahler 's music — you only have to hear the vocal exhortations with which he galvanises the Boston players at the most intense moments in the score to realise this .
6 ‘ After all , I only have to make the right moves at the right time . ’
7 This approach is more likely to damage a rescuee for good , especially one who still has to learn the basic rules .
8 The plaintiff will still have to make the necessary amendments to his statement of claim and , if he has left it this late to do so , may well find himself in difficulty over costs if the action has to be stood out or adjourned because the defendant has not been given adequate notice .
9 He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife .
10 The harshness of those living-conditions , with the special emphasis on working-class housewives having to feed , clothe and generally look after a large family , was reflected by the lower standards of living , the deprivations all around , widespread poverty , with few families ever having experienced the beneficial effects of a holiday in the country or at the sea-side .
11 I 've just said are you still having to do the six months , it 'll sound as if you 're getting a prison sentence
12 ‘ But we still have to combat the promotional skills of chemical companies . ’
13 The court has to consider the child 's welfare as the court 's paramount consideration , and also has to consider the various aspects referred to under section 1(3) , that is they have to consider the wishes of the children , their needs , the likely effects on the children of change , the characteristics of the children , the nature of the harm they have suffered and the capability of the parents or anybody else offering themselves as carers , which would include of course the grandparents in this case .
14 The implementation of essential ‘ Community standards ’ has clearly had to tackle the difficult issues such as prudential supervision , authorisation and capital adequacy of undertakings to establish the basis for mutual recognition .
15 Fergus did not say it , but he thought that Dierdriu would hear the cry , and he thought , as well , that she would also have experienced the immense lonelinesses , the sudden fierce panics , because it was inevitable that when you were a creature not quite Human , you would instinctively look for your own kind .
16 Local tradition may indicate where cottages stood until recently , but the fieldworker should be aware that much earlier structures may also have occupied the same sites .
17 The refinements also had to cover the new forms of broadcasting .
18 What you would like to find , of course , is just one fuel tank because you think Andropulos is going to claim that he did n't abandon ship because he thought another fuel tank was about to go and he did n't want his precious passengers splashing about in a sea of blazing fuel oil which would , of course , also have destroyed the rubber dinghies . ’
19 They also have to fulfil the higher-order objectives implied by the title ‘ higher education ’ .
20 Karen Rake of Aylesbury finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 and now has to go the Welsh Nationals next month to try to qualify for the Europeans …
21 Mr Howard Davies , controller of the commission , said yesterday that local authorities should by now have overcome the administrative difficulties of housing benefit changes .
22 Combining the public relations exercise of showing herself to her people with the need to exhibit her legal powers , she set off on court circuits or justice eyres which inevitably had to include the crime-ridden Borders .
23 Apart from the aircraft involved in military operations , the civil aviation community now had to serve the major centres — if it could — by new rules .
24 We now have to alter the old consequences and make it quite clear to him that his bad behaviour will have results that are not only not rewarding , but also unpleasant enough to make him relinquish his tantrum .
25 That might sound a little over the top , but the truth is that Quakers were streets ahead of Shrewsbury , and could well have surpassed the four goals which Hartlepool scored on their visit to Gay Meadow .
26 The significance of these beliefs in creating a commonsense culture of taken-for-granted racism in Britain is difficult to underestimate , although widespread illiteracy may well have protected the subordinate classes from the level of immersion in racism experienced by the upper classes who were fed a growing diet of racist mythology in fiction , newspapers and missionary tracts ( Lorimer , 1978 ; Miles , 1982 , pp. 118–19 ) .
27 Gloucester may well have shared the current anxieties about how the Woodvilles ' role would develop after the coronation .
28 Gloucester may well have shared the current anxieties about how the Woodvilles ' role would develop after the coronation .
29 I did n't even have to make the conventional protests .
30 Perhaps the strongest is that there are species in which some females reproduce sexually , and others by parthenogenesis : if there was not a short-term advantage to sex , the parthenogenetic females would long ago have replaced the sexual ones .
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