Example sentences of "the [noun] have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The user has to judge the exact moment to stop .
2 Using light to find one 's own way around requires vastly more energy , since the eyes have to detect the tiny fraction of the light that bounces off each part of the scene .
3 In Palestinc the Jews had to face the intruding Greeks .
4 The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target .
5 The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target .
6 In the case of public transport Mackintosh ( 1987 ) shows very clearly for London Transport in the early 1980s that politicians from the GLC had to challenge the market-based arguments of the bureaucrats in order to increase subsidy to keep fares down and maintain services .
7 A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites .
8 The owner of the cattle had to pay the inflated damages or lose his animals .
9 Without influential subjects serving about the pope , the king had to enlist the utmost support which he could muster among the cardinals in order to shape the papal response to his demands .
10 To protect its younger members the TUC had to sacrifice the economic freedom of working pensioners , while through Beveridge 's rationalizing , the state retained a flexible reserve army of labour in the younger elderly .
11 the movement had to discuss the ultimate and logical outcome of political action or it would be adding to confusion .
12 If a band do n't write their own songs , the manager has to find the right songwriters .
13 Now consider the effect of applying a load torque equal to the pull-out value , so that the motor has to produce the maximum available torque .
14 Thus the Commission has to determine the relevant geographic market .
15 try " filling in the blank " and " choosing the right form " exercises , e.g. in which the student has to choose the right plural endings for different noun classes .
16 So we come to the second implication , which is that the student has to understand the practical aspects of the life of reason .
17 To enter into the third court , the visitor had to receive the written permission of the Sultan .
18 The woman has to set the enticing fruit , the desire to have knowledge like God himself , against God 's plain command .
19 But it said that to get at the root of the problem the Government had to tackle the whole issue of deprivation .
20 The women 's victory in 1918 was unspectacular and came about primarily because the government had to update the electoral register to include those serving in the armed forces .
21 The state has to provide the physical infrastructure for private enterprise — railways , trunk roads , harbours , power stations , irrigation , public health , and so on .
22 ( 2 ) That a secure accommodation order could only be made if the provisions of subsection ( 1 ) were satisfied and the justices had to consider the statutory criteria and then formulate their reasons within the criteria ; that the justices ' reasons clearly demonstrated that they had not considered whether the order was necessary to protect the child from harm if he was likely to abscond from other types of accommodation ; and that , therefore , the appeal would have to be allowed but the court would make an interim order restricting the child 's liberty for three weeks within which time the matter should be reheard ( post , pp. 93C–F , 94H — 95B , 96G–H , 98D ) .
23 Each member of the troupe had to sign the formidable contract .
24 The counsellor has to avoid the simplistic but often convenient idea that older people withdraw from social activities and friendships because they no longer want them , or because withdrawal is inherently part of the nature of old age .
25 That is why the police have to secure the free passage of the highway , to assist industrial pickets to enjoy the right to communicate to workers , to protect public speakers who may arouse indignation or worse , and so on .
26 Projects are often unsustainable , as the MOH has to finance the recurrent costs of activities set up by the project after the donor leaves .
27 Cecil Thompson , the manager of the plant , said the company had to face the inevitable .
28 It is all very confusing with the result , in my experience , that in many instances the fishkeeper has to find the right feed level by trial and error , which invariably involves water quality problems , as well as compromising the health of the fish until the correct balance is achieved .
29 So each link in the system has to handle the whole range , and bandwidth , of services provided .
30 While he was perceived to be concerned with the great strategic issues of war leadership , the representatives of the Party had to tackle the tedious , and often unpopular , workaday matters affecting daily life in the Heimat .
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