Example sentences of "the [noun] have [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Board had to pay for Whiterock College , this could mean reducing the budget all around for other Colleges . |
| 2 | ( p7 ) If the drafter has to choose between clarity and legal accuracy , clarity must be sacrificed , but that should rarely be necessary . |
| 3 | In applying the test , the courts have to bear in mind the balance between the plaintiff 's investment in the product and the protection of free competition . |
| 4 | For women , the measurement of the thread has to do with continuity ; it is the thread that runs through all complexity , an underlying order linking past and future . |
| 5 | The coalition had to agree in principle to the report , announcing its determination to implement the report 's assumption that mass unemployment must be prevented . |
| 6 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 7 | The increasing numbers of colleges approaching the CNAA had to do in part with difficulties over validation by universities — particularly those which were unwilling or reluctant to validate honours degrees — and in part with the attraction of the CNAA as a validating body which could consider a range of courses , including those in the areas of proposed diversification . |
| 8 | The flight burns up energy , and the hummingbird has to stop from time to time during its journey , to defend a territory and re-fuel . |
| 9 | ‘ The committee has to go on record and declare that a drastic reduction in these resources will place the parish structure of the Kirk in jeopardy and seriously damage its mission to the people of Scotland . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Has it slipped your mind that the child has to go to school ? ’ |
| 11 | The recipients had to agree to devaluation among other provisions . |
| 12 | Claridges and the Savoy had to fight off take-over bids with borrowed money . |
| 13 | If the change is not well managed throughout this process , different groups ' interests may be so radically affected that the process has to degenerate into chaos before stability can be regained . |
| 14 | Then the children start to arrive and the husband has to stay at home at nights with the wife and help look after them . |
| 15 | Let me read you two or three verses the bible has to say about blessing , first of all , the verse in the book of Proverbs Proverbs chapter ten , verse twenty two . |
| 16 | For each rocket , there is a set of five questions which the teams have to answer in order to reach Mars . |
| 17 | Some of the compromise has to do with money . |
| 18 | I remember when I worked in Ninewells and the Queen Mother was coming and the same thing happened , the domestics had to work over time to clean up Ninewells which is a relatively new hospital . |
| 19 | She had not even had the support of her mother , sister , or boyfriend while she gave birth , and the baby had to stay in hospital for several weeks after she returned alone to her bedsit : |
| 20 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 21 | The waiters do n't have menus , they come and shout at you and if you 're sitting ‘ upstairs ’ on the ground floor , as opposed to the much more plebby basement , then they turn the lights off every twenty minutes or so and all the diners have to dance by candlelight for two minutes whether they want to or not . |
| 22 | The government had admitted that as the reforms ‘ deepened ’ there would be signs of inequalities and economic problems which the people had to accept with patience . |
| 23 | Both crew members ejected safely … but people on the ground had to dive for cover as the plane crashed in a ball of fire . |
| 24 | Eliot comes across as the sad man who sees double , as a living embodiment of the proposition that the double has to do with pain and with relief from pain , with the search , in such circumstances , for someone other . |
| 25 | Normally , the commission had to dispose of land at the best price it could obtain , but there was one important exception . |
| 26 | In the present study none of the patients had to withdraw from therapy because of side effects , irrespective of the length of treatment . |
| 27 | Naturally , the longer the delay the more likely it will be that the prosecution is at fault , and that the delay has caused prejudice to the defendant ; and the less that the prosecution has to offer by explanation , the more easily can fault be inferred . |
| 28 | This has considerable practical importance , since this is all that the prosecution has to prove in order to obtain a verdict of guilty of murder . |
| 29 | The quota is the smallest number of votes the candidate has to get in order to be sure of getting a seat . |
| 30 | He ran about the library shouting and shaking his fists at the shelves and the Headmaster had to send for Matron to calm him down . |