Example sentences of "[pron] has [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time .
2 ‘ Basically , someone has to take a stand now otherwise all the single-teacher schools in the Borders could go in a very short time , ’ declared the association chairman , Annmarie Crowe , of St Abbs , yesterday .
3 If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise .
4 Nobody has to answer a telephone , so , alright .
5 Right , now we 're are n't we , we 're , because the next time that that handset is used , the black button in other words is dislodged , and lodged , by the way , it will send a signal to the computer saying ‘ Right , it 's your turn to carry out the camp on if you want to , again you 've got the choice , you do n't have to , nobody has to answer a camp on .
6 Somebody has to earn a living in this family .
7 Somebody has to have a sense of the history of things . ’
8 She packs me bag upon me back which has to last a week .
9 It could be a roadmaker who has to fill a depression in order to continue with the road .
10 Think of the man who has to hang a kitchen cabinet in a frame house .
11 Perhaps it 's enough to be Scarlet , who has to see a therapist and dreams only of early retirement and death .
12 They are bondagers , women hired by a male farm worker or ‘ hind ’ who has to provide a woman to work with him before he will be hired by a farmer .
13 In The Favour , The Watch And The Very Big Fish Bob Hoskins plays a Paris photographer of religious themes who has to find a model for Christ on the cross and comes up with Jeff Goldblum , an ex-convict and former lover of an actress ( Natasha Richardson ) , who he meets at a pornographic dubbing studio .
14 Nowadays the holding of dances , raffles , and pub talks along with the fixture has pushed up the sums enormously , although if inflation and house prices are taken into account even £50,000 or over is hardly a fortune for a man who has to find a job and keep a family .
15 ‘ But one of you has to make a start , Amy .
16 Not like her , Maggie , she has to put a lot of effort into looking nice .
17 She retains a liveliness of mind which is quite extraordinary under the circumstances and she still displays a keen sense of humour and a warmth of contact despite the fact that she has to use a machine .
18 She 's now able to walk around the house although outside she has to use a wheelchair .
19 As part of the course , she has to choose a subject of her own about which to write a paper ; one of her difficulties is to know how to form her own views , not just copy already received opinions .
20 Liz is said to have commented : ‘ I 'm sorry Raquel is so hard up she has to do a film that rips off my life .
21 She has to do a lot of standing . ’
22 She has to take a taxi everywhere .
23 What this means is she has to find a job fast .
24 But I hope he 'll be able to make her understand that she ca n't ever have me , and that she has to make a life for herself away from me . ’
25 In a new age of philistinism , when everything has to wear a price tag , the beauty and wonder of the world of nature have low value in the market place .
26 Everything has to have a till receipt .
27 The difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher , and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university .
28 Really it 's a problem of time and resources erm the difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university .
29 So one has to use a quantum theory of gravity to discuss the very early stages of the universe .
30 One has to use a quantum theory of gravity to understand how the universe began .
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