Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government still has to work out a points system whereby a cross-section of Hong Kong residents , whose skills are needed , will be given full British citizenship rights between 1992 and 1997 . |
| 2 | Bacon had little interest in English neo-romanticism and Minton would have been unable to accept Bacon 's nihilism , his insistence that man is a futile being who has to play out the game dependent not on reason but chance . |
| 3 | One member of the party is selected as the defendant : he is told the outline of an alibi defence and has to fill in the details impromptu under questioning . |
| 4 | If there is a public inquiry the council has to put up a site notice . |
| 5 | Before the ‘ competent authority ’ sanctions any release into the environment it should stipulate that the releaser has to take out an insurance policy that will cover it for any consequential damage to the environment and necessary clean-up operations . |
| 6 | Well I think it 's er down to the competitive tendering process where the County Council has had to put out the cleaning contracts for schools to tender . |
| 7 | Of late , my generation has perforce had to count up the debit column of all those mistakes , and in so doing has forgotten the benefits . |
| 8 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 9 | While chatting with Allan in the Admin Block corridor about a snag which had emerged , one of the senior managers said ‘ We 'll have to set up an Improvement Team to solve it ’ . |
| 10 | Be interesting , of course , if fire cover were withdrawn , because then they would have to rustle up the R.A.F. crews from Brize Norton who would n't know their big toes from their elbows when it came to plutonium and highly enriched uranium and chemical explosive . |
| 11 | Secondly , people will be paid automatically without having to fill in a claim form or other kind of document . |
| 12 | She would have to give up the Pizza Eater . |
| 13 | He may also have to fight off a takeover bid — Fininvest , the Milan-based media company controlled by Silvio Berlusconi revealed a 1 per cent holding last week . |
| 14 | ‘ Care managers have a very tough job and there will be some decisions they will have to refer up the management hierarchy . |
| 15 | ONE advantage for small countries in large empires is that they do not have to think up a defence policy : their armies do what they are told . |
| 16 | If only to stop me dashing round to the newsagent every day to ask if it is in yet around the time due , I shall have to take out an MKM subscription and devote more of my energies to learning how . |
| 17 | ‘ The prison staff said that was OK but said they would have to tie back the cell doors . |
| 18 | In many ways , you will have to throw away the rule book because the tried and tested that you have set so much store by will prove inadequate for the job . |
| 19 | The hospital would have to make choices : ‘ We are going to have to weigh up a hip replacement against a breast carcinoma . ’ |
| 20 | A second-hand car which is not safe to be driven on the road ( for example because the brakes are in such a state that they would fail if the driver had to carry out an emergency stop ) is clearly not of merchantable quality , Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 C.A. ) — unless of course the car was only sold for scrap . |
| 21 | They had to go down the rope side-ladder , Richard first . |
| 22 | We had to write up the parrot sketch in English and this French translated in French for us . |
| 23 | She still had to shake out the sofa cushions . |
| 24 | ‘ I could n't find the kids but just as had to pull out the fire brigade arrived . ’ |
| 25 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 26 | When it landed , the Americans had no steps tall enough to reach it , a gratifying start except for the fact that the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and his party had to climb down an emergency ladder hand over hand . |
| 27 | Again she went alone , because the Goad case came along and he had to hunt down a gangland killer . |
| 28 | You had to run up the warehouse steps . |
| 29 | When Johann did not come , we had to break down the castle door . |
| 30 | Jonas , said that you 'd — er — had to take over the family business when you were very young , ’ she offered tensely . |