Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The bikes had to survive a six-week tour in total wilderness , with fifty kilograms of camping gear , and they must not break .
2 But even the French navy had to divide itself between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coasts and the Russians had to maintain a small separate fleet in the Black Sea .
3 Using light to find one 's own way around requires vastly more energy , since the eyes have to detect the tiny fraction of the light that bounces off each part of the scene .
4 The drivers had to negotiate a testing two-mile course on the Princess Royal 's Gatcombe Park estate .
5 In Palestinc the Jews had to face the intruding Greeks .
6 Moderate land reform was a cau cautious approach in in that how that the communists had to maintain a fragile balanc balance between the two fundamental aims of the maintenance of support and the increase of production .
7 In order to pursue its economic policies , the Conservatives had to construct an ideological climate which justified its unpicking of the Welfare State .
8 Now the Conservatives have to find a new candidate .
9 To qualify as a true Prisoner 's Dilemma , remember , the payoffs have to follow a particular rank order .
10 The owner of the cattle had to pay the inflated damages or lose his animals .
11 ( 2 ) That a secure accommodation order could only be made if the provisions of subsection ( 1 ) were satisfied and the justices had to consider the statutory criteria and then formulate their reasons within the criteria ; that the justices ' reasons clearly demonstrated that they had not considered whether the order was necessary to protect the child from harm if he was likely to abscond from other types of accommodation ; and that , therefore , the appeal would have to be allowed but the court would make an interim order restricting the child 's liberty for three weeks within which time the matter should be reheard ( post , pp. 93C–F , 94H — 95B , 96G–H , 98D ) .
12 So the platers had to use a manual override to get any production at all .
13 The champions have to overturn a daunting 3-0 deficit at Elland Road tomorrow night if they are to get past Stuttgart and make it into the European Cup second round .
14 That is why the police have to secure the free passage of the highway , to assist industrial pickets to enjoy the right to communicate to workers , to protect public speakers who may arouse indignation or worse , and so on .
15 The railways had to accommodate a wide variety of produce under different conditions and at different times of the year .
16 Out of the gentlemen who came into farming at that time [ before mechanization ] only about one in twenty could make it go : the others had to have a skilled man to manage the farm for 'em .
17 Nevertheless , in what most people would regard as an obvious case of rape , the victims had to suffer a traumatic experience in court and have their humiliating experiences reported to millions .
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