Example sentences of "[prep] have [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite having to take a drop in salary of about two-thirds , Cottle accepted . |
| 2 | The same hand tapped Charlie on the shoulder a moment later , and off he ran , faster than he had ever run before , despite having to carry a rifle in one hand and a pack on his back . |
| 3 | Instead of having to cancel a trip to the Blue Mountains , she 'd had to put off a trip to the Blue Danube . |
| 4 | Perhaps he is a merry , convivial sort of fellow in private life , who likes nothing more than to crack a bottle of wine with his friends when there is no possibility of having to drive a motor-car afterwards . |
| 5 | For the adherents of the new theory are faced with the prospect of having to abandon a theory that they feel to be right in the face of evidence which , at that stage , they are unable to reconcile with the new theory — when in fact in a decade or two they might well be able to do so . |
| 6 | The beauty of having to describe a shape . |
| 7 | The breathless warning she would have uttered earlier would at least have had the ring of sincerity , but now she was only too conscious of having to play a part . |
| 8 | Do n't be ashamed of having to re-write a sentence or paragraph several times to make your meaning still clearer . |
| 9 | With neutral Hampden Park ruled out due to renovation work , Rangers manager Walter Smith and Celtic No.2 Joe Jordan were involved in the bizarre situation of having to toss a coin to determine the semi-final venue . |
| 10 | Some parents have even had the anguish of having to commit a child to a mental hospital for its own safety . |
| 11 | He did n't measure up to Jones , the affair lacked the romance of having to follow a man around the world — perhaps even the bitter-sweet romance of uncertainty . ’ |
| 12 | He seemed to think that he had an idiot for an accuser , but his solicitor was not so happy ; he did n't seem to like the idea of having to address a witness through an intermediary . |
| 13 | Secondary schools seem to find the prospect of having to produce a report most threatening ( least , primary ) , with the greatest degree of uncertainty as to the stage reached in presentation : a quarter of secondary school teachers were unsure whether their school report had yet been submitted to the LEA whilst only 5 per cent of middle school teachers and no primary school teachers were unsure about this . |
| 14 | Once we have mastered a keyboard , most of us flinch at the idea of having to write a lot of stuff out in longhand , but there are still poor benighted souls that find the keyboard impossible to master , and for their benefit , Microsoft Corp , Apple Computer Inc Lotus Development Corp , General Magic Inc , Go Corp and Slate Corp came together at Comdex to announce Jot 1.0 , a standard that they hope will enhance the use of pen-based computers . |
| 15 | Gavin now faces the prospect of having to have a metal plate inserted in his head . |
| 16 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 17 | Hence , to issue new shares at a substantial discount to the market price and then underwrite it would appear to be a case of double indemnity in which the primary insurer is assured of a very small probability of having to make a compensation payment . |
| 18 | Examining the twentieth century was like having to apply a quota to allow the underprivileged into college . |
| 19 | You have no idea what it is like to have to bear a child . |
| 20 | Last autumn they reported an improved figure , after moving the apparatus to Goesgen , of 1.05 + 0.02 , in other words , a result consistent with there being no oscillations ( CERN Courier , vol 22 , p 371 ) — In its latest work the team has been able to dispense with having to make a comparison with the expected antineutrino spectrum , thereby removing one source of uncertainty . |
| 21 | A stressful situation , such as having to catch a train or make a speech , might make a normal person 's stomach churn a little , but in the IBS sufferer it can provoke a violent attack of diarrhoea . |
| 22 | But mostly I remember the fishing and if it had n't been for having to carry a gas mask , go without sweets and put up with loud bangs in the middle of the night , I would hardly have known a war was going on . |
| 23 | Glendenen probably remembers the match best for having to face a 14-ball opening over from Essex 's former Hampshire paceman Steve Andrew , who currently has a fractured shoulder . |
| 24 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But if your private affairs were open and above board you would n't be worrying about having to conceal a phone caller 's identity — which is what you are doing . ’ |
| 26 | The level of incompetence , humiliation and overcrowding is remarkably low — at one point Hurt throws a wobbly about having to share a room for one day with one other person . |
| 27 | I make feeble excuses about having to write a column . |
| 28 | Of course , a party may be excused from having to produce a document on the grounds that this would violate the law of the place where the document is kept . |
| 29 | Marginally quick-tempered , he sees little sense in having to field a barrage of questions when he might feel that his score tells its own story . |
| 30 | She was delighted with her bottle of champagne and admits to having to hazard a guess at a couple of the ‘ young managers ’ . |