Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 2 | My position as warden means that I have to spend a fair amount of time in the office , dealing with correspondence and the large amount of information that our fieldwork generates . |
| 3 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 4 | Mr Bailey told her that she had to wear a special white coat , some special shoes and a white hat . |
| 5 | She recognized that she had to make a sensible framework of her own . |
| 6 | Finally , remember that you had to put a considerable amount of effort into learning the skills that you have today . |
| 7 | The only down side for the solicitor is that you have to give a free half-hour interview to anyone coming to see you under the scheme , though most firms of solicitors nowadays will give this service in any event . |
| 8 | I think the main ingredient for success is that you have to have a good sense of timing . |
| 9 | ‘ The whole cultural situation in Oxford is such that you have to have a certain degree of power or influence of money to be admitted to any social sphere , ’ he fumes . |
| 10 | The problem with this — magnetic doughnut ’ is that you have to build a huge machine to produce the energy needed for a power station . |
| 11 | This does not mean that you have to pay a whole team of specialists anything up to £600 a day each . |
| 12 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |
| 13 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 14 | And as I say , we believe that we have to have a federal structure and we believe in m democracy throughout Europe and throughout Britain . |
| 15 | If any are received erm by the cutoff date , then it has to be my my submission that we have to have a reasonable time to respond . |
| 16 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 17 | In effect , the message being sent to John and the other hostages was that they had to keep a stiff upper lip and hope that , one day , the kidnappers might let them go . |
| 18 | Disabled people find that they have to put a great deal of effort into making various authorities meet their ordinary everyday needs . |
| 19 | He says that they have to police a large area , with officers spread thinly . |
| 20 | Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ? |
| 21 | Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ? |
| 22 | The afternoon when they discover that they have to have a complete outline plan of the Dolomites ready for the Ministry by nine o'clock the following morning , and all stay working into the small hours , until their backs are aching and their eyes closing , and they all love each other and are united in extremity against the entire world . |
| 23 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 24 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 25 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 26 | We told him that he had to have a specific programme … that he had to train the hardest that he had ever done in his life . |
| 27 | Is it not the case that the right hon. Gentleman 's delay in coming to the House to announce his decision is because , when he looked at the facts , he was minded to reject the application but was told by the puppet master sitting next to him that he had to make a political decision ? |
| 28 | He considered this for a short time and concluded that he had to make a public stand for those things which he believed . |