Example sentences of "[adv] have [to-vb] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 The price of cobalt soared and the industry suddenly had to pour much time and money into redesigning the magnets in loudspeakers , using less expensive ceramic materials instead of cobalt .
2 Morgan noted : ‘ We basically have to peak three times in the period : Hong Kong at the end of this month , Melrose [ where the Scots play under the guise of the Co-optimists ] , and the World Sevens .
3 AT&T complains that US carriers wanting to enter the UK market not only have to invest substantial time and money in building their own networks , but also have no alternative but to negotiate with British Telecom for local access to customers .
4 but you , I do n't know which we , you just have to say next time you see her oh which reading test do you use and you can work out , how , what , you know , I 've got a reading test somewhere I 'll see if I can find it for you , just show you
5 Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 .
6 Staff and councillors at the town hall have praised the generous efforts of the milkmen who will inevitably have to spend extra time picking up the gifts .
7 Nevertheless every choreographer creating this kind of romantic ballet today has to spend much time creating the proper gestures to replace the words , which in such ballets are never spoken but must be understood .
8 And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time .
9 He still talks mistily about Cowdray , and Guards and the parties , and the hospitality , and the women you did n't have to date twenty-two times before laying them . ’
10 I was very pleased er when I came to put the book together to find that er most of er most of the actual walks corresponded with what was on the paper , which was nice , so I did n't have to waste much time .
11 Your business English learners wo n't have to waste any time puzzling out what the Oxford Dictionary of Business English has to offer ; the innovative design provides the maximum amount of information in the easiest format possible .
12 Isabel did n't have to wonder this time if he was going to kiss her .
13 So instead of ringing each other up on the telephone we spoke to each other over the C.B. as you do n't have to pay each time you speak as when you speak on a C.B. your words travel with Radio waves and when you speak on a telephone your words travel down wires .
14 Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning .
15 But pushing down on the legs stops them from straightening ; the legs will then have to work five times harder in order to compensate .
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