Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 3 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 4 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 8 | So we decided we had to look for a new singer . |
| 9 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 10 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 11 | We have to control for the other ways in which they might vary . |
| 12 | Anything else we have to do for the open day ? |
| 13 | We have to allow for the gradual loss of existing members — an allowance of 5% may be a reasonable figure . |
| 14 | The Opposition do not understand that we have to provide for the full life of the Trident system — for 30 years . |
| 15 | So we have to hope for a fine day for this on Sunday , obviously . |