Example sentences of "[verb] had [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At his two shops in Reigate , Surrey , and Beckenham , Kent , he has had to replace full-time staff with part-timers and made a manageress redundant last year .
2 since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government .
3 Since she was abandoned by her husband — under Ugandan Native Law a man can freely acquire other wives — Mrs Kizza has had to support nine children with nothing more than the 1,500/ ( £1 ) a week she earns from serving in a bookshop .
4 18 Quartet in B flat K.172 , showing the end of first movement where Mozart has had to cancel one bar and cram the rewritten version onto handwritten staves at the end of the page .
5 A vicar has had to cancel twenty weddings because his church roof is in danger of collapse .
6 Each year popular ales have sold out early and Camra has had to order more beer every year .
7 Now , the other two subjects I 'm really only dealing because the people responsible are , are not here in the flesh this afternoon but Alyd the provincial advocate and I I think of Bill that 's also gone too , er yes he he has , he has had to leave this afternoon .
8 In the past three weeks , Mr Rocard has had to withdraw three bills , at least temporarily , for fear of defeat .
9 LIKE most companies , Courtaulds has had to combat difficult trading conditions over the past 12 months .
10 Group Services has had to reflect these changes resulting in a cutback on staff numbers with the loss of many valued colleagues .
11 Royal Dutch Post Horn Lager , brewed by the United Dutch Brewery , has had to take similar action , recalling 200,000 of its 25ml bottles in Britain after reports of glass in some batches .
12 Unfortunately , Central News has had to take second place to Project Video ( which we are shooting at the moment ) but we are aiming for October 1989 publication for Central News 1 ( video and book ) and January 1990 for Central News 2 ( video and book ) .
13 ‘ Faber would not be for sale even at the right price , ’ commented Matthew Evans a touch wearily — this being by no means the first time he has had to deny such rumours .
14 The catch is that the Department of Energy has had to offer financial terms for the SSEB and the CEGB to persuade them to take on the responsibility .
15 But the report also confirmed that most of the UK 's manufacturing base has had to face rising costs for overseas raw materials as a result of the devaluation of sterling .
16 Working as a single woman artist in France , JACQUELINE BLACK has had to overcome many hurdles .
17 For the coming year , though , Mr Dinkins , despite a hefty rise in money terms , has had to bring projected real-terms spending down .
18 Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain .
19 Thomas has had to endure three months of misery , the worst of his career , after the collapse of a £3 million move to Blackburn Rovers which would have set up the Crystal Palace midfielder for life .
20 Because of that , the CITB has had to introduce various schemes using its own investment to tide it over what it believed at the outset would be a short recession , but which has now become a very deep and long recession .
21 Fault-tolerant Unix specialist Sequoia Systems Inc is sinking deeper into the mire and has had to fire 60 people in all parts of the company to cut cost while it looks for new funds to finance its operations .
22 Every county has had to seek additional funding to support placement costs for children who do not have a mental handicap .
23 So the lighting industry has had to seek additional phosphors to provide the demanding colour rendering of such installations .
24 Meanwhile , Colorado Springs , Colorado-based Cray Computer Corp has had to have another rethink on its strategy for its delayed and now down-sized Cray-3 supercomputer .
25 It is nearing bankruptcy and has had to make 720 employees redundant , which is a sorry state of affairs .
26 It has been suggested that where a tenant has had to make substantial alterations the court may force the landlord to make a contribution , but this is not to be relied upon .
27 The Institute itself has , of course , suffered financially from the impact of the recession and has had to make painful economies and cut out some activities .
28 Sir Lewis Robertson has had to make tough decisions to revive Stakis ' fortunes .
29 Manager Trevor Francis has had to drop gifted teenager Chris Bart-Williams to make way for Sheridan 's comeback from a knee operation .
30 She has recently completed the Science Foundation Course of the Open University , but has had to postpone further study in the sciences for the time being because changes in Modern Language teaching at the Sixth Form College where she works have consumed so much of her time and energy .
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