Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For competition to be fair and meaningful , either everybody has to be drug-free , or everybody has to be on drugs — which do we want ? |
| 2 | But the next day Mr Clarke insisted that nothing had in fact changed from the NHS White Paper because it had not talked of cash limits , only of firm budgets . |
| 3 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 4 | I think that everyone had to be rescued by a motor boat as we drifted helplessly around , vainly splashing at the water with these pieces of wood . |
| 5 | This I now of course understand , that everyone has to be careful of any drug smugglers . |
| 6 | I WAS glad to see that someone has at last taken a stand on the cheap labour schemes connected with the TEC system . |
| 7 | The government was quite content , in essence , to use inflation as a weapon of war : somebody had to bear the costs , and apart from those assessed for the new Income Tax of 1799 , that somebody had to be the consumer . |
| 8 | This example illustrates well that one has to be aware of the range of possible treatments and restorations to which even perfectly genuine objects could have been subjected . |
| 9 | Actually some groups in current Western society wear what could almost be termed a uniform , in that it serves to give them a distinct identity , for example skinheads , hippies , and the tinted , spiked hair brigade ; in fact these non-verbal cues can influence interaction to such an extent that one has to be careful to avoid stereotyping , sometimes quite erroneously . |
| 10 | What this case clearly shows is that one has to be very careful in assuming that in restraint of trade cases a phrase ascribed a meaning in one case will also be ascribed the same meaning in another . |
| 11 | Again it is possible to make categorical assertions in English without giving any indication of the evidence that one has for making them or of one 's attitude towards what one is saying : there are languages that can not do this . ’ |
| 12 | He paused before smiling at her and saying , ‘ Is n't it amazing the choice that one has in tobacco . ’ |
| 13 | As to the others , it really depends rather crucially on the game that one has in mind . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's rather old , so one has to be frightfully careful , but I know you will be . |
| 15 | Did n't you say that he 'd expect you to tidy your bedroom every day before you went to school and at night before you went to bed , that everything had to be perfectly in place ? |
| 16 | Burton 's Welsh and hungry and visceral sense that everything had to be grabbed or it would be lost forever would be reinforced at this critical stage in his life by the fatalistically hedonistic mood which infected so many . |
| 17 | It became a rule of the ‘ Carry On ’ outfit that everything had to be filmed within spitting distance of Pinewood — and there were real sergeants to carry on the business of teaching them what life in the Army was like . |
| 18 | I 'm such a picky person that everything has to be perfect . ’ |
| 19 | Orwell 's simplicity was much like that parent-figure : it can suddenly look more complicated , and more assumed , than one had at first supposed . |
| 20 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 21 | Whilst women 's role as mothers was of paramount importance to society — particularly after the exile when maternity , for various pragmatic reasons , became the means of transmitting and establishing in biological terms , as it were , religious and ethnic identity — it would seem logical , given our culture — nature opposition and the fact that culture seeks to control and impose upon whatever has been construed as natural , that something had to be done in cultural terms about the natural function of childbirth . |
| 22 | A public consensus began to form , especially in rural areas , that something had to be done to force the Westminster government to act against the killing and crime . |
| 23 | It was in 1972 , when I was twenty-five , that I decided that something had to be done . |
| 24 | There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was , but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible . |
| 25 | John Feaver , LTA Director of Events and Tournaments , said , ‘ Our experiences last year convinced us that something had to be done and we hope that this system will really help the enthusiastic spectator . ’ |
| 26 | On the one hand , business leaders agreed that something had to be done to the health-care system because the cost of covering their workers was eroding their profits . |
| 27 | Most people acknowledged that something had to be done , but Congress continued to drag its heels . |
| 28 | At the end of the war the Buckinghams decided that something had to be done ; not Mrs Buckingham , who was still repining , but Harriet 's vast web of paternal relations . |
| 29 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 30 | He told police many people hated working in the hangar and the thought had just come into his head that something had to be done . |