Example sentences of "has [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside this , one has to set a high degree of tolerance , dependency , held by unskilled workers [ whom we interviewed ] . |
| 2 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 3 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 4 | Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much . |
| 5 | Wheelchair-bound and with a high percentage of skin loss that has worn away most of her fingers and toes , she has to endure a 90-minute ordeal of having her dressings changed every morning . |
| 6 | I I 'm certainly not My Lords er un er er an unqualified admirer of all our procedures in local Government , but I do believe that before central Government is further down the road of , of erm usurping functions which are now those of local government it has to persuade a large number of people that its own performance justifies such a course and myself I do n't believe it does . |
| 7 | It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments . |
| 8 | This presents more difficulties for the researcher , who has to do a great deal of interpretation in order to make inferences from what people actually do to their motivations for doing it . |
| 9 | To understand music-hall and vaudeville one has to fight through layers of myth and romance and one has to undo a whole view of the past that uses nostalgia for pre-1914 as a touchstone . |
| 10 | So a hummingbird that specialises in feeding from Heliconia has to patrol a whole group of plants , visiting each hanging spike of blossoms in strict rotation on a carefully timed schedule . |
| 11 | Plugs or outlets too , are often fitted in a haphazard way around the room , with the result that when a lamp is placed where it seems most needed , it frequently has to trail a dangerous mess of flex or wire with it . |
| 12 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
| 13 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |
| 14 | This means that the ‘ brain' of the synth has to have a certain amount of waveform information from the guitar before it can determine an actual pitch and synthesise that information accordingly . |
| 15 | The general format and size of advertisements has been specified by National Marketing and must be adhered to ; it includes the KPMG logo at both top and bottom of the details and therefore the advertisement has to have a minimum size of 2 columns wide and 8 cm deep . |
| 16 | In reality no fish has to eat a vast amount of food , though luckily for us some are right pigs ! |
| 17 | At present , the Institute 's application procedures and strict supervision requirements mean that senior management has to offer a substantial amount of time and commitment . |
| 18 | But she still has to take a daily cocktail of drugs . |
| 19 | In general , an aggro leader has to show a distinct sense of fearlessness — he has to be a ‘ hard case ’ . |
| 20 | And thirdly , in order to unravel the totality of things that are and see how it is inwardly articulated and how it emanates into the diversity of the world as we experience in the ordinary way , your thought has to follow a special kind of logic , dialectical logic , which exhibits the process of thought and simultaneously the process of reality as one that proceeds by things being or things being said , and these giving rise to their opposites , to contradictions , and these contradictory moments or items being taken up in a greater , synthesizing whole . |
| 21 | Where handwritten texts are at issue , it is often the case that the individual reproducing the text in a printed version has to make a considerable effort of interpretation to assign a value to some of the less legible words . |
| 22 | During the journey away from his old un-reformed self , the mystic has to enter a dark night of the senses . |