Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone , somewhere has got to be joking ! |
| 2 | But a blank run of five games since has contributed to City 's disappointing fall to mid-table , out of the title race and unable to spend on team strengthening . |
| 3 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 4 | The whole character of the game has been changed by a goal which er suddenly has brought to life in a way which we did n't see at all for the first half . |
| 5 | Lennie Lawrence , like Malcolm Crosby , has been a breath of fresh air to North-East football , which for too long has clung to the misguided belief that only the big name managers ( Big Lawrie , Big Jack and co. ) can bring big time success . |
| 6 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 7 | Thus , for example , Eusebius , Bishop of Caesarea , one of the leading theological figures of his day and a close personal associate of the Emperor , says : ‘ He grows strong in his model of monarchic rule , which the ruler of All has given to the race of man alone of those on earth ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ The man who is looking for a breed to put shape into his lambs only has to talk to butchers who deal in this type of Texel-sired carcass and look at the successes achieved in carcass competitions . |
| 9 | The predictions of the effective theory of fluid mechanics are not exact — one only has to listen to the weather forecast to realize that — but they are good enough for the design of ships or oil pipelines . |
| 10 | Hereford and Worcester has already voted for a similar ban , Northamptonshire 's decision only has to go to the full council , and Gloucestershire votes next week . |
| 11 | At the same time one only has to turn to earlier and outstanding performances by Brendel ( Philips ) and Zimerman ( DG ) to hear how true greatness is possible without resort to so much self-conscious sifting and analysis . |
| 12 | If the landlord of an Assured Shorthold Tenant wants possession of the premises he only has to prove to the Court the following three things : |
| 13 | Individual property owners in cities have long had to conform to legal controls , but planning as a more widespread activity dates only from the mid-twentieth century ( Hall 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 15 | I very much doubt whether Wolfgang will find there all those things which he has imagined and the great advantages which several people may perhaps have described to him . |
| 16 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 17 | It is my one great regret about this whole sorry business that at this crucial time in the Government 's fortunes , when I should so much have liked to be seen as a tower of strength , I am perceived by some as a point of weakness . |
| 18 | M. Forster ’ ; he would very much have preferred to be thought the author of dull , upper-class novels , like those of Maurice Baring . ) |
| 19 | Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices . |
| 20 | Even if this outcome had not occurred , and by some miracle the world economy had continued to grow after 1918 , it is not possible that States would merely have accommodated to the requirements of growing world trade . |
| 21 | Kirkman and Hendy , the Earl of Camden 's agents , may merely have responded to the College 's advertisement , but another explanation for their involvement seems possible . |
| 22 | The relative lack of resonance of the boycott can only have indicated to Hitler that he had been right to keep a fairly low public profile on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 23 | I ca n't play that sort of trick on him — besides , I 'd only have to agree to another date . ’ |
| 24 | The names would only have sounded to them like unfamiliar ritual incantations . |
| 25 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
| 26 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 27 | Your investigators now will not only have to keep to the law but they will have to obey regulations as well , or only occasionally and with their eye very much over their shoulder slide past them . |
| 28 | Nor , if Cnut and his advisers sought models for his kingship , need they only have looked to the English past : there was also the European present . |
| 29 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 30 | Here there may arise a conflict between two principles , one that the court will not imply a term unless it is one which reasonable men would obviously have agreed to if their minds had been directed to the point , the other that a contract should if possible be interpreted in such a way as to achieve fairness between the parties … mistake is a much more difficult problem … [ than fraud or partiality ] . |