Example sentences of "have [to-vb] with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now is a good time to plant , so plants can become established before they have to cope with a dense canopy of leaves and dry soil in the summer . |
| 2 | The companies also have to cope with a growing demand for water . |
| 3 | So , even if you have to cope with a few tears and sulks , do n't let them get you down . |
| 4 | Teachers , who have to cope with a large group of children , are likely to regard aggressive or disruptive youngsters as problems and overlook those who are quiet and withdrawn because , in their terms , they are ‘ well behaved ’ . |
| 5 | As we have seen already when we have to cope with a large number of losses in a short time , it becomes much harder to deal with the grief that we feel . |
| 6 | Many of these animals not only have to contend with a changing landscape due to human development ( ! ) but also human greed . |
| 7 | Do not feel that you have to persist with a particular type of pressed flower work if you are not happy with it . |
| 8 | You have to play with a special membrane , made of v. thin bamboo , over one of the holes . |
| 9 | In addition to Acts of Parliament both Houses have to deal with a great deal of what is known as ‘ subordinate ’ or ‘ delegated ’ legislation . |
| 10 | HM Inspectors of Factories or Agriculture visit many types of workplace , and have to deal with a wide range of technical and legislative problems . |
| 11 | In short , we still have to deal with a harmonic problem — the satisfactory effect of note-combinations both in isolation and in horizontal movement . |
| 12 | The confusion yields when we realize that we have to do with a limited area , however large , and that the ‘ unionists ’ , if I may use this term , made the mistake of extrapolating the ambiguity and interchangeability within this limited area to the whole scope of Mozart 's staccato notation . |
| 13 | But when one is dealing with associative use , we have to do with a binary distinction ; the adjective is introduced solely to indicate that its property , even though applicable to some other entity , is associated with the entity of its noun phrase , and here there are only two possible states — either the property is associated , in the view of the speaker , or it is not ( and of course by a slightly curious consequence of the communicational process , the state must always be the positive one , since if the property were not felt to be associated with that entity and needed for identification , then the adjective which designates that property would simply not appear ) . |
| 14 | Despite the concern for promoting reflectiveness among teachers , their in-service opportunities have to compete with a week-by-week preoccupation with in-school organization — modifying the management plan , feeding information back into the cycle of formative teaching and testing and balancing the books in order to cover one more curriculum or non-curriculum speciality . |