Example sentences of "has [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law says that British Coal has to go through a procedure of consultation before it can close pits . |
| 2 | If a report has to go through a number of drafts , it is an excellent way of enabling changes to be made quickly and without extensive retyping . |
| 3 | The details of this task are entrusted to the Future Legislation Committee of the Cabinet which has to cope with a flood of requests from the various Departments of State who all wish to have their proposals included . |
| 4 | This means that the light , instead of being granted an unrestricted passage to the photocells , has to pass through a forest of connecting wires , pre-sumably suffering at least some attenuation and distortion ( actually probably not much but , still , it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer ! ) . |
| 5 | Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying . |
| 6 | With so few black professionals in post , most pressure for anti-racist reforms has to come from a variety of sources , from white politicians or administrators or black pressure groups working in particular localities in conjunction with anti-racist teachers . |
| 7 | I do not see Hoffman 's hesitancies of speech , his throatbound voice that has to struggle past a colony of frogs , his eyes that crouch nervously in their sockets , as a proof of consequential ratiocination going on inside his head . |
| 8 | To achieve this position a chant leader has to engage in a form of ‘ hazarding ’ of a particularly subtle kind . |
| 9 | And in order to achieve this end , the spirit has to dwell within a number of different entities . |
| 10 | It has to do with a lack of influence . |
| 11 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |
| 12 | ‘ I just hope neither of you ever has to turn to a life of crime . |
| 13 | At the age of seventy five she has to wade through a sea of mud to get to her council home at Cinderford in Gloucestershire . |
| 14 | She has to get through a lot of work but always accept interruptions . |
| 15 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 16 | In setting out to achieve such aims , an advertiser usually has to abide by a number of laws and codes of practice . |
| 17 | The teacher always has to operate within a number of constraints such as agreed syllabuses , governors ' wishes , heads of department , parental pressures , and so on , which mean that he or she is the only person who is competent to decide on content and method . |