Example sentences of "have to settle [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHANE MACGOWAN continues to enjoy his bottle of wine , while JON BEAST has to settle for a double chin . |
| 2 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 3 | Aches and pains sometimes ease up when the menopause is over but many of us will have to settle for a certain amount of back pain , headaches and limited movement from now on . |
| 4 | They may prefer short term bid speculation to long term recovery but if Mr Louis-Dreyfus has his way , they will have to settle for the latter . |
| 5 | Less than a week ago , he said that this congress would strip the party of its ideology and change its name , but it now looks likely that he will have to settle for the second half of the forecast . |
| 6 | Rovers dominated Friday night 's home game with Peterborough , but had to settle for a 1-1 draw , and King explained : ‘ Noone can say anything but good about the way we played . |
| 7 | Rovers dominated Friday night 's home game with Peterborough , but had to settle for a 1-1 draw , and King explained : ‘ Noone can say anything but good about the way we played . |
| 8 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 9 | Arsenal 4 , C Palace 1 IT WAS billed as the Ian Wright Show , but the Arsenal striker had to settle for a supporting role as Paul Merson stole the top honours , writes Paul Newman . |
| 10 | Colin Montgomerie , a British Ryder Cup player last year , who was also making his first appearance , had a 72 but David Feherty , who played steadily for 12 holes , ran up a seven at the 13th and had to settle for a 73 . |
| 11 | But the home side had to settle for a winning draw after St George 's finished on 175–7 , despite a 2–55 return from 16-year old slow left arm bowler Howard Jones on his debut . |
| 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 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 14 | He would have preferred a special health-service pay factor , but had to settle for an above-average offer to the nurses , who most certainly were the priority group , having fallen badly behind over the previous ten years . |
| 15 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |