Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Board had to pay for Whiterock College , this could mean reducing the budget all around for other Colleges . |
| 2 | ( p7 ) If the drafter has to choose between clarity and legal accuracy , clarity must be sacrificed , but that should rarely be necessary . |
| 3 | For women , the measurement of the thread has to do with continuity ; it is the thread that runs through all complexity , an underlying order linking past and future . |
| 4 | The coalition had to agree in principle to the report , announcing its determination to implement the report 's assumption that mass unemployment must be prevented . |
| 5 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 6 | The flight burns up energy , and the hummingbird has to stop from time to time during its journey , to defend a territory and re-fuel . |
| 7 | ‘ The committee has to go on record and declare that a drastic reduction in these resources will place the parish structure of the Kirk in jeopardy and seriously damage its mission to the people of Scotland . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Has it slipped your mind that the child has to go to school ? ’ |
| 9 | If the change is not well managed throughout this process , different groups ' interests may be so radically affected that the process has to degenerate into chaos before stability can be regained . |
| 10 | Then the children start to arrive and the husband has to stay at home at nights with the wife and help look after them . |
| 11 | Let me read you two or three verses the bible has to say about blessing , first of all , the verse in the book of Proverbs Proverbs chapter ten , verse twenty two . |
| 12 | Some of the compromise has to do with money . |
| 13 | She had not even had the support of her mother , sister , or boyfriend while she gave birth , and the baby had to stay in hospital for several weeks after she returned alone to her bedsit : |
| 14 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 15 | Both crew members ejected safely … but people on the ground had to dive for cover as the plane crashed in a ball of fire . |
| 16 | Eliot comes across as the sad man who sees double , as a living embodiment of the proposition that the double has to do with pain and with relief from pain , with the search , in such circumstances , for someone other . |
| 17 | Normally , the commission had to dispose of land at the best price it could obtain , but there was one important exception . |
| 18 | Naturally , the longer the delay the more likely it will be that the prosecution is at fault , and that the delay has caused prejudice to the defendant ; and the less that the prosecution has to offer by explanation , the more easily can fault be inferred . |
| 19 | This has considerable practical importance , since this is all that the prosecution has to prove in order to obtain a verdict of guilty of murder . |
| 20 | The quota is the smallest number of votes the candidate has to get in order to be sure of getting a seat . |
| 21 | He ran about the library shouting and shaking his fists at the shelves and the Headmaster had to send for Matron to calm him down . |
| 22 | In the event , the government had to resort to Article 110 of the law , which comes into operation when there is a shortage of foreign exchange at the rates determined by the National Bank . |
| 23 | Pressure-group activity is only one factor that the government has to take into account in deciding policy , and the group 's importance to the government and community is susceptible of various interpretations . |
| 24 | When the parties are evenly balanced in the Commons or when the Government has to depend for support upon minority parties , the Prime Minister may well let it be understood that he will not resign or call an election on an adverse vote in the Commons except on an explicit issue of confidence . |
| 25 | Thus in ( 36 ) , a typical example of the infinitive of result , managed evokes all the efforts which the subject had to make in order to attain the result and so situates the third-person support in time before — and all the way up to — the point at which " getting free " is actualized . |
| 26 | The latter , though , might just be assimilated to the factors that the subject has to take into account under operant conditioning . |
| 27 | In doing so , the Church has to take into account ‘ the Tradition ’ — the consensus of teaching and practice down the centuries . |
| 28 | In the next four hours Gerry Mackenzie 's men stood off Japanese attacks , sometimes using the bayonet to keep the enemy from the airfield , but the platoon had to withdraw before daylight , destroying the airstrip installations as they left . |
| 29 | Within hours Bull told Detective Superintendent Malcolm Hargreaves the hunt had to concentrate on north Wales . |
| 30 | As the holiday-maker travels further and learns more of the possibilities the world has to offer through travel books , magazines and television , travel companies are creating more and more imaginative and flexible packages . |