Example sentences of "have [to-vb] for the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only think of all my anxiety , the fears and sorrows I have had to endure for the last fortnight … |
| 7 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 8 | I shall just have to wait for the next Guinness Book of Records for the answer . |
| 9 | Transactors will have to search for the new equilibrium values themselves . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The news comes as BA is still licking its wounds from having to apologise for the dirty tricks campaign conducted against its smaller rival , Virgin Atlantic , and the early retiral of its former chairman , Lord King . |
| 16 | They would have to compete for the reduced number of jobs . |
| 17 | Less than a week ago , he said that this congress would strip the party of its ideology and change its name , but it now looks likely that he will have to settle for the second half of the forecast . |
| 18 | The cost should average out at about £6 per page , less for longer runs , but you will have to allow for the extra time . |
| 19 | It is not disputed by any member of the European Community that if that part of the directive were to be implemented everybody would have to pay for the associated benefits . |
| 20 | Those figures — the £170 and the £153 — represent the surcharge that Langbaurgh families will have to pay for the continued life of the Tory Government . |
| 21 | A computer programme allows them to plan the food he 'll have to take for the 12 man crew on the Group 4 yacht . |
| 22 | It is no wonder that Ministers do not understand the problems local government faces in having to prepare for the final year of poll tax , in having to work out how to collect the current year 's poll tax , in having to prepare the software for collection of the council tax . |
| 23 | er I think a couple of things : first of all , the detail programme ; the government will have to produce for the forthcoming World Climate Conference in October/November , er the way in which they 're going to reach their target and secondly that will also discuss from amongst all the countries , what the target should be . |
| 24 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 26 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 27 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 28 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 29 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 30 | Jessica Rawson , Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum , had to struggle for the gilded walls that she wanted for her newly redisplayed 2000 square-metre gallery ( opening 11 November ) ; traditionally the British Museum has had an austere , even puritanical approach to interior decoration . |