Example sentences of "we have have [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that .
2 The response is coming through slowly , but we 've had to take a lot of initiatives on our own and we are hoping that others will come and support and back these initiatives .
3 So we 've had to do a lot of work ourselves , including researching carefully that we are doing something worthwhile . ’
4 We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh .
5 Once we 'd decided to have a baby we had had to find a Father .
6 Because the schools are up to 65 miles away , we have had to give a lot of thought to the development of distance learning materials .
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