Example sentences of "having [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh it 's not my type mm Penny 's having to wait a long while for her birthday is n't she ? , |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Such a consideration raises the prospect of having to run a surplus budget at the same time as cutting taxes . |
| 15 | For many , the sense of having to adopt a preferred version of practice accentuated the dilemmas which are always part of everyday teaching . |
| 16 | It has been clear from the beginning that there are problems here for teachers having to assess a whole range of attainment targets across the curriculum . |
| 17 | No. 3 was directly opposite the palace , only a minute away , but he was stopped twice by tourists whose thick German accents he could n't begin to understand , and then by having to settle a violent argument between two drivers who had managed to crash while manoeuvring their cars out of their parking spaces . |
| 18 | The only aspect of the lessons which I can really remember was having to learn a substantial number of Euclid 's theorems on geometry . |
| 19 | Because Windows applications share common operational techniques , you can move easily between applications without having to learn a different set of commands for each . |
| 20 | The adolescent is emerging from the small and comparatively cushioned world to which he has belonged and is having to face a great deal of pressure from many different relationships . |
| 21 | ‘ But for SeaCat the Northern Ireland public would still be travelling in mundane vessels and having to pay a hefty price for the privilege . ’ |
| 22 | He remembers competing at the national championships at Cleethorpes in 1923 , when the water lay only three foot deep above a foot of solid mud , and having to touch a mud-smeared wall at each end . |
| 23 | The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time . |
| 24 | Thus the desperate position which tended to be the teacher 's in the days of the Dalton Plan , with no help available , almost no bibliographic service for the location of likely materials , and the consequent necessity of having to produce a daily flood of work-sheets and data sheets , is no longer the case in schools sensibly organized . |
| 25 | My grown-up children are on their way to see me , and in order to do so are having to travel a two-hour journey on the motorway . |
| 26 | The surprise decision to concentrate the main allied armoured thrust to the west of Kuwait was in part motivated by the desire to avoid having to make a frontal assault upon the extensive Iraqi fortifications on the Kuwaiti-Saudi Arabian border . |
| 27 | You 're having to make a conscious effort to be detached , are n't you ? |