Example sentences of "[noun] have [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next thing the retailer has to get right is the price of the goods he sells . |
| 2 | Out of his profits , the retailer has to pay all the costs involved in running the shop , that is , his overheads . |
| 3 | There are many functions that are common to 99% of all spreadsheet applications , in much the same sort of way that a word processor has to have certain abilities . |
| 4 | Or come and send for him , h he what has to be in the yard , the blacksmith has to look thirty to forty horses their blacksmith has to look round every one of them . |
| 5 | In T. H. White 's book , ten-year-old Maria has to learn similar lessons when she discovers a group of Lilliputians . |
| 6 | Of these , only the problem of knowledge source co-ordination has to date received significant attention in terms of implemented systems . |
| 7 | we 've worked out each of the Midlands clubs has to play sixteen Midlands Derbies |
| 8 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 9 | However , by the end of day 3 , the futures price has fallen to 1050 and the buyer has to pay 150 over to the seller . |
| 10 | If they have an arrow in the gold they are paid two shillings ( no decimalisation here ) , if they have a hit in the red , blue or black they receive one shilling , but if they have hit the outer white the bowman has to pay one shilling into the pool . |
| 11 | The user has to drill two holes in the sides of the centre recess to fit a particular machine . |
| 12 | Where the addressee is unknown and feed-back is indirect , as with much institutional writing , the writer has to supply contextual information unnecessary in speech or in letters . |
| 13 | This attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor Mum has to do all the washing , is really quite , quite misguided because it , it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons , and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 14 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 15 | Nucella has to bore all but the smallest mussels , but an adult dog-whelk can usually inject the narcotic between the opercular plates of a barnacle to relax the prey without boring ( Carriker , 1981 ) . |
| 16 | To justify its existence , a conglomerate 's headquarters has to add more value than an independent business unit could get from outside advisers and banks . |
| 17 | It also isolated how he has approached the tricky transfer to the screen : ‘ Theatre is the art of suggestion and not of statement … the cinema has to produce complete images . ’ |
| 18 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 19 | Each truck has to carry 26 of them , together weighing over a ton . |
| 20 | A licensing board has to hold quarterly meetings in January , March , June and October each year , the precise date to be fixed by the board at least eight weeks before the meeting . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , any account of the undergraduate curriculum has to address such issues , not because the questions must be asked , but because they have already been answered — in the institutional , professional and curricular structures that exist — and these answers must be examined . |
| 22 | Elitism has to mean more than this — even in its modern , broader sense — for it to be of analytical use , so modern elite theory has tended to argue for a plurality of elites which may interact or compete in a variety of ways . |
| 23 | Going to the bathroom these days is quite a heavy trip : the can becomes a kind of geyser , and Tod has to look lively with that bucket of his . |
| 24 | Every religion has to meet certain basic standards , but styles , designs and materials vary widely . |
| 25 | When you shorten distances between elements in a line of jumps , the horse simply has to bring its hocks under more than it is currently doing … while doing so the horse has to shift more weight from its forehand to its quarters , which are thus lowered and ‘ engaged ’ . |
| 26 | The horse has to succeed most of the time to retain its self-esteem and to increase it . |
| 27 | The current opposition has to capture 94 seats to secure an overall majority — and Peterborough is the 95th . |
| 28 | Mummy has to get those . |
| 29 | Labour has to attract middle-class Britain . |
| 30 | There being no applicable statute to regulate the position , the revenue has to maintain this position at common law . |