Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we had to cite a bad point , it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The way the vehicle was hit , there was one person in the back so we had to do a 3-door conversion and made a 2-door car into a 3 , so it took longer . |
| 4 | when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples . |
| 5 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 6 | Before before we could get nationalization , we had to get a Labour government . |
| 7 | First we had to find a new propeller and this was delivered by Sam , an engineer from Technical Branch , who made a record marathon run in his tiny van from Southampton to join us at Oban . |
| 8 | We had to find a proper bin to chuck it in . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ But we were producing so much effluent it flooded and we had to rent a small piece of land specifically for effluent disposal , ’ explained Dai . |
| 11 | We had to climb a classic route on Ben Nevis and our ice axe braking , step cutting and navigation skills were all tested . |
| 12 | You think about it , it 's never , I mean we had to have a special fire door put on cos our we go through to our garage . |
| 13 | We knew we had to have a women-only group . |
| 14 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 15 | ‘ We came to that point in our school career when we had to study a foreign language . |
| 16 | First , we have to choose a low-conductivity material . |
| 17 | We have to serve a grand banquet in forty-five minutes . ’ |
| 18 | The ministers claim we have to take a different approach from the Poles or Hungarians but they do not say in what way different . |
| 19 | ‘ We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Well think about it I mean there might be one , in which case we have to do a little bit er dancing around |
| 21 | Before we can proceed further we have to grasp a fundamental distinction which the Zande draw between two kinds of occult power , the first of which we shall call ‘ sorcery ’ and the second ‘ witchcraft ’ . |
| 22 | So if , as seems likely , we have to wait a long time for a follow up to the triumphant Glyndebourne production , we should be all the more grateful for occasions like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's concert performance ( sponsored by English Estates ) . |
| 23 | One is the performance aspect because every time we need to access the relational database across the network we have to send a large piece of transactional logic , a piece of S Q L code , across the network , and that could be significant in size . |
| 24 | He justified that approach on the basis that " the lease is a commercial document and we have to find a commercial solution to the problem posed " ) . |
| 25 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 26 | Contact killers are therefore problematical , and we have to adopt a different technique . |
| 27 | How then are we to explain that ( 22 ) does not mean the same as ( 22 ) ? ( 22 ) Having a child and getting married is better than getting married and having a child We have to provide a pragmatic account , along the following lines . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The way we run our economy is the prime cause of environmental damage , now what the other parties are failing to see is that if we want to live in a truly ecological society , one that really recognises the constraints , er that the environment imposes on us , we have to have a consistent approach to every area of policy , so for example , in the Israel/Palestine conflict er debate , we have laid great stress on our , er advocating our own approach to conflict resolution , consensual approach , negotiations condemning the arms build-up which is inspired mainly by the U S , and so er whilst we have also debated some other more overtly environmental policies such as reaffirming our commitment to phase out nuclear power , we do lay great emphasis on er developing economic policies , particularly in the light of the up and coming general election and we want to obviously present a complete platform of policies to the electorate . |
| 30 | We have to have a General Election to see which party is going to make another mess of the country . |