Example sentences of "[noun] have to find a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To get on to the housing ladder , the first-time buyer has to find a deposit of 5% or more of the property price , and with a typical housing price/income ratio of three times , this can represent 15% or more of annual income .
2 Labour has to find a defence and foreign policy that rejects the Conservatives ' Great Power illusions .
3 Third market companies had to find a member firm to sponsor them who would ensure not only the suitability of the company for trading , but also that the company 's decisions were communicated to the shareholders , and that there was an effective and orderly market in the shares .
4 Unable to pump in compressed air to equalise the water pressure — the air pressure required would have exceeded legal limits — Fairclough and Thames had to find a machine that could operate under such conditions .
5 With the Corsair now in the UK , Lindsey had to find an operating base for it .
6 The Men are vex 'd to find a Nymph so wise :
7 Heseltine had to find a subsidy to stop the coal revolt by Tory backbenchers a short-term subsidy to the coal industry .
8 With Alan Kernaghan suspended , and newcomer Jon Gittens not eligible , Lawrence has to find an answer to the centre half problem .
9 In some ways , therefore , France had to find a way of forcing the other five members into line behind his conception of an intergovernmental association of European states that would ultimately expand far beyond the Six , to what de Gaulle described as a Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals .
10 Baxter had to find a way to stop the piglets getting out to bully their mother and steal milk from others with younger litters .
11 The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre .
12 When he was then slow in announcing a name , Churchill enjoyed himself with the mot that ‘ Baldwin has to find a man of inferior ability to himself , and this Herculean task requires time for its accomplishment . ’
13 It ‘ s mainly the press having to find a story or supporters letting their bias colour their judgement .
14 ‘ Andrex refused to pay the import duty so the container company had to find a way of dumping 190,000 unwanted plastic dogs . ’
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