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

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1 The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it .
2 On December 29th Richard Gephardt , majority leader in the House , said that if the president waged war without a congressional resolution , ‘ Congress has to reach for the only tool left to it , which is to cut off the funding of the war . ’
3 He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’
4 SHANE MACGOWAN continues to enjoy his bottle of wine , while JON BEAST has to settle for a double chin .
5 The idea is that every person has another person ( or sometimes a group or committee ) to whom he or she has to account for the proper discharge of responsibilities .
6 When compulsory environmental impact statements are produced for Parliament for a private or hybrid Bill , the promoter obviously has to pay for the environmental impact assessment .
7 The policy has to cater for a wide variety of machines , some fixed and some mobile .
8 And another Quote of the Week ( and how long we have had to wait for the national press to notice what has been so obvious for so long ) : ‘ With Waterstones backed by W H Smith , and Pentos ’ gearing rising , there can be little doubt who has the deeper pockets to fight a protracted battle .
9 Meredith was surprised he always had to look for a hidden motive .
10 The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit .
11 They want to be able to lend without having to search for a suitable borrower , and to get their money back quickly if their own need for liquidity changes .
12 ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire !
13 Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ?
14 Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ?
15 I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road .
16 Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation .
17 Just nine first and you dial straight through , you do n't have to wait for a secondary dialling tone do you ?
18 But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn .
19 I 'll have to go for a little walk .
20 She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable .
21 Admittedly you often do have to search for an underlying structure in Berlioz 's work .
22 Transactors will have to search for the new equilibrium values themselves .
23 Similarly , Message Queue Interface should improve the efficiency with which loosely coupled systems work : travel agents , for example should be able to request flight information from one system and get straight on filling in other details without having to wait for the remote system to respond .
24 In the case of franchises and licences the business is not transferred by the vendor and the vendor will normally have to arrange for a new licence or franchise to be granted to the purchaser by the licensor or franchisor on the surrender of the vendor 's licence or franchise .
25 Richmann seethed at Henri 's arrogance , and consoled himself that with any luck he would n't have to stand for the superstitious fool 's whims for much longer Drawing a gun from a shoulder holster , he prepared to fight his way through the streets if necessary ; it would be nothing compared to what was to come , he thought .
26 Alan Beith , the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman , said : ‘ This Budget is the bill taxpayers are having to meet for the catastrophic mismanagement of the economy under the Conservatives .
27 For all those reasons — administrative costs will be high , collection levels will be low and average bills will have to compensate for the special help given to the wealthy — the council tax bills will be higher than fair rates bills would have been .
28 In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle .
29 If Verve expand any further , they 'll have to apply for a live music permit in the next door dimension .
30 Publicans would have to apply for a special children 's certificate as they have to do in Scotland .
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