Example sentences of "have [to-vb] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest oak still has to grow from a tiny acorn . |
| 2 | Secure in your status at work , becoming a parent may cause confusion — a woman may have to adjust from a professional role to a maternal one , where her own needs become relegated ; a father may have to adjust to there being a new small person in the family who makes his role seem less significant . |
| 3 | The manuscript had just been discovered in the uncatalogued recesses of the British Museum ; it was exciting work , said the doctor , but difficult : the manuscript was badly damaged and as he had not the money to go to London he was having to work from a smudged xerox copy . |
| 4 | We must also ensure that the escalation of costs does not lead to elderly people having to move from a single-bedded room to shared accommodation , which would be a lowering of standards in their residential home — and it is their home . |
| 5 | It is believed , however , that some early igneous rocks , which had to solidify from a molten state , are proof that some atmospheric gases ( such as carbon dioxide , nitrogen and water vapour ) had to be present to turn them into something approaching earthlike rocks and clays by a primitive ‘ weathering ’ process . |
| 6 | They had to operate from a precariously-held line stretching 800 kilometres from Akyab on the Bay of Bengal to Ledo at the foot of the Tibetan mountains . |