Example sentences of "[noun] have [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When there are limits on borrowing , a company or household in financial distress has to survive on cash flow . |
| 2 | The major divisions went to the nobility , of course , but a Frankish soldier had to fight on command , in the hope that a successful battle or campaign would realise some spoil for himself . |
| 3 | Lucy had to stand on tiptoe to use it , but when she did it gave her a partial view of the clientele at their tables . |
| 4 | All erm library books and school books have to go on top here if there 's no space to put them . |
| 5 | ‘ The committee has to go on record and declare that a drastic reduction in these resources will place the parish structure of the Kirk in jeopardy and seriously damage its mission to the people of Scotland . ’ |
| 6 | Because retirement creates dependency , and dependency is undesirable , retirement is unlikely to be chosen voluntarily ; therefore the study of retirement has to focus on labour demand from employers , not labour supply from workers . |
| 7 | To put this carefully engineered plasmid into the virus the NIH team had to rely on chance . |
| 8 | Disqualified persons had to rely on secrecy . |
| 9 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 10 | Whatever the method chosen , these invitations were issued only for the more important — i.e. expensive — funerals ; those of lesser rank had to rely on word of mouth . |
| 11 | He feels the amount of money a lot of young people have to spend on drink is one cause , while on the other hand , unemployment and social deprivation are factors for others . |
| 12 | A spokesman from Cambridge University commented ‘ while the University 's buildings are in reasonable condition for their age , the maintenance staff have to work on emergency work and are not able to put time into other things . ’ |
| 13 | There were two GIs in charge — the driver and a sentry guard — and Eric had to sit on top of a pile of waterproof mailbags . |
| 14 | At the Restoration of Charles II , the church which had been used by the Bedford Congregation was returned to the Church of England and its members had to meet on village greens and in barns . |
| 15 | The observed data on income , wealth , etc. , do not correspond accurately to the theoretical constructs ; the empirical procedures have to rely on proxy measures ; assumptions have to be made about the extent to which people benefit from different public programmes and about incidence . |
| 16 | Older lone women are more likely than lone men to have to rely on income support and widows are much more likely than widowers to do so . |
| 17 | Within hours Bull told Detective Superintendent Malcolm Hargreaves the hunt had to concentrate on north Wales . |
| 18 | Slim Plan is not a bit like that — for more inside information , read what Cookery Editor Moyra Fraser has to say on page 7 . |
| 19 | Many towns had to rely on immigration from the country to maintain even a reduced level of population , and the easing of pressure of population on the land in the country reduced the urge on men to move , although as we have seen in our examination of rural society men did continue to leave the land to escape the burdens of serfdom ( 70 ; 104 , pp.206–10 ; Ch.4 ) . |
| 20 | And maybe that is part of real life , maybe that is a fact of life that women have to take on board , but perhaps men have to take it on board a bit more as well . |
| 21 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 22 | Times are hard for Alan Soden and his family — he ca n't get a job and his family have to live on state benifits . |