Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [to-vb] a [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 The drivers had to negotiate a testing two-mile course on the Princess Royal 's Gatcombe Park estate .
4 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 .
5 Now the Conservatives have to find a new candidate .
6 To qualify as a true Prisoner 's Dilemma , remember , the payoffs have to follow a particular rank order .
7 So the platers had to use a manual override to get any production at all .
8 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 .
9 The railways had to accommodate a wide variety of produce under different conditions and at different times of the year .
10 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 .
11 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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