Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 2 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 3 | The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small . |
| 4 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 5 | This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so . |
| 6 | Well I 'll have to stay for the next two years unless we go back to Lincoln . |
| 7 | He did not expect domestic coal supplies to be insulated from world price trends — especially as government grants to the National Coal Board will have to rise over the next few years . |
| 8 | As a result of central government policies , Islington social services suffered 8 per cent cuts in 1987/8 and all departments were asked to produce proposals for cuts of up to a further 25 per cent which they might have to achieve over the next two years . |
| 9 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 10 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 11 | ( ‘ The first assistant director , ’ he says when I query his qualifications for the role , ‘ just had to shout at the second assistant director . ’ ) |
| 12 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 13 | Hunt had to finish in the first three to win the title . |
| 14 | He desperately needed a drink but he knew he had to get through the next little while — ten minutes , half an hour , an hour — completely sober . |
| 15 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 16 | I mean , now I 've got several hundred pounds resting on it if I have to walk in the last few miles I will , but er pride I 'm sure I 'll keep going . |