Example sentences of "having [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can then eliminate all but the genuinely suitable applicants without having to interview an enormous number of people in person . |
| 2 | They can not win , for the aim of the stressed work-force is to avoid having to embrace the discomfiting uncertainty by construing itself as victimized and manipulated . |
| 3 | ‘ I read The Can Book , ’ says Neil , uneasy with having to conduct the entire interview without the help of fellow band-members John and guitarist Nigel . |
| 4 | oh it 's not my type mm Penny 's having to wait a long while for her birthday is n't she ? , |
| 5 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 6 | Dublin can not bring itself publicly to renounce its territorial claim to the North , while privately living in dread of ever having to acknowledge a direct responsibility for Northern Ireland 's Protestants . |
| 7 | Manufacturers in energy-intensive industries complain that the tax will make their products less competitive ; the petrochemical industries say they are having to bear an unfair share of the burden of reducing the deficit . |
| 8 | IT 'S far from roses all the way here , if only because other members of the family are experiencing difficulties and you end up having to bear the emotional brunt of it all . |
| 9 | Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture . |
| 10 | The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time . |
| 11 | This cautionary tale produced a moment 's silence , as all those present contemplated the awful prospect of having to rewrite a large chunk of a book from memory . |
| 12 | I ca n't say I envy the director , having to find the right balance of youth and experience … ’ |
| 13 | To avoid having to remember the current state of the display , the attributes may be set explicitly by prefixing the control byte by a parameter count of 50 ( the character " 2 " ) and 43 ( " + " ) for " on " a 45 ( " - " ) for " off " . |
| 14 | The commercial men resented thus having to create a negative image of their product , but this was the least the industry could do to allay government criticism that they were expanding more rapidly than resources allowed . |
| 15 | Merseyside fire brigade spokesman Ken London said : ‘ It is bad enough having to tackle a serious fire without having stones thrown at you as well . ’ |
| 16 | They are most grateful for a pump within yards of their homes , instead of having to walk a long way to a dirty water-hole . |
| 17 | Hollywood filmmakers have become so slavishly dependent on old movies for their narratives that more and more new movies are having to assume the textural trappings of the past . |
| 18 | It was bad enough having to do every single bit of the work , rushing like a mad thing because the person who was meant to help you could n't stop talking . |
| 19 | He must n't be expected to make an effort when he does n't feel like it , he must n't risk being hemmed in or bored , but everyone has to be ever so careful of his feelings , poor sensitive soul , and when he wants a good fuck he comes to obliging loving little Ruth because he can relieve himself and have his morale boosted without having to do a damned thing about it but get himself into your bed . ’ |
| 20 | LABOUR last night accused the Conservatives of having to do an embarrassing U-turn over home ownership . |
| 21 | And it saved you hav it saved you having to do the preliminary thing of saying dear whoever you are |
| 22 | Given their view of the reports as generally descriptive , it is hardly surprising that few teachers felt that having to submit a written report on their school was in any measure a professional threat to them . |
| 23 | Sarah retired in 1983 with a slipped disc and was frustrated at having to leave the competitive arena before achieving her sporting ambitions . |
| 24 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 25 | The girls are having to use the public lavatory on the corner and they do n't like it . ’ |
| 26 | Mountbatten tried to reassure him , but added , ‘ I foresee having to fight a civil war against 10000 armed Burmese soldiers at a time when it is vital that my forces should be better employed . ’ |
| 27 | It is evident , however , that the police are overstretched and are having to fight the rising tide of car crime with insufficient officers and with one hand tied behind their backs . |
| 28 | Such a consideration raises the prospect of having to run a surplus budget at the same time as cutting taxes . |
| 29 | For many , the sense of having to adopt a preferred version of practice accentuated the dilemmas which are always part of everyday teaching . |
| 30 | Some EDI users tackle the problem of having to satisfy the disparate requirements of a variety of trading partners by adding a software element which allows them to generate and read in messages in a variety of formats . |