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

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1 Local registry offices will also supply copies of certificates if the event was recorded in their district , but they do not provide facilities for consulting indexes and so the genealogist has to have fairly precise information before a successful search for a certificate can be made .
2 By comparison , on Gibson 's Flying V guitar , the bridge pickup has to sit rather high because of the effect the tune-o-matic bridge has in raising the height of the strings above the body , which I 've always thought looked and felt a little clumsy .
3 The wedding industry has to get as much cash as possible out of the remaining couples who choose to tie the knot with the blessing of God and every florist in Britain .
4 In 1984 in an interview with the Giornale dell'Arte Bonito Oliva observed that ‘ A critic has to have extremely rapid reactions ; his role is to grasp ideas and project them into the future ’ .
5 Mr Cormack foresees school-leavers having to fight even harder for a place here .
6 The new , expensive , equipment required secure and sound cover , thus the Club had to build suitably good sheds ; these are by the 3rd fairway .
7 Despite the traditional virtues of the local oak trees , English shipbuilders had to import so much of their material , from ropes to masts , that English sailing ships were never quite as good as the best European ships .
8 With real low bass , speakers have to work very hard to produce enough of the relevant frequency to make the signal audible .
9 But Grundig had to provide quite separate sound heads , and individual capstans to drive the tape .
10 And then went and bought another fresh chicken had to pay even more money for it .
11 It may seem easier if you remember that all parents have to do just this when they change a baby 's nappies , wipe the baby 's bottom , and ensure it is clean and dry .
12 How much time might a teacher have to spend religiously chasing-up ways of making small-scale economies ?
13 The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed .
14 In Pakistan in 1983–4 he took over again when Willis had to return home sick and gained two creditable draws , after which he was officially appointed to lead England against the West Indies in 1984 , at the age of 27 .
15 On the one hand , the sampling process had to generate as many categories of user as possible and so account for the variations found in the known sample relating to age , sex , class , township , and so on .
16 Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made .
17 Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to what was the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made .
18 Under the new scheme this group of claimants gain a weekly benefit valued at £27.40 but from this the claimant has to pay both 20 per cent of his or her rates bill and , similarly , 20 per cent of the water rates bill .
19 Apart from anything else , agencies had to make absolutely sure they had the applicant 's correct name and address , mistakes in which , claimed Simon Moulton , Assistant Data Protection Registrar , accounted for more than 100,000 people being refused credit every year .
20 This type of administrative regulation , when combined with a decline of one-quarter in current expenditure to the cities between 1981–2 and 1985–6 , and the imposition of an administratively difficult and possibly inequitable poll tax , makes the financial environment within which the older urban cores have to operate singularly unfortunate .
21 MILLIONS of Britons have to pay too much for private medical cover , insurers claimed yesterday .
22 Producers have to operate efficiently due to the pressure of potential ‘ hit and run entry ’ into the market .
23 In the defenders ' trials , Dennis Conner 's Stars & Stripes has to win only one more race against America to be sure of a place in the final later this month .
24 TO MAINTAIN PROFITABILITY in the face of growing international competition Chlor-Chemicals has to become increasingly market-driven .
25 They cover a lot of ground so the designated flight area has to include very generous margins of up to an extra 50% over the line lengths and , most important , this area has to be clear of all spectators and especially other kites .
26 Why do people have to become more difficult ?
27 Thus , while land-drainage departments promote agricultural intensification , other departments in the same water authority have to spend more public money in expensive plant to treat the water , in order to comply with EEC regulations on nitrate levels .
28 But some people have to wait much longer for operations in some places than in others and the system can be insensitive to individual needs .
29 ‘ But it does mean that some people have to wait as much as three hours .
30 ‘ Some people have to get wildly angry before they let themselves feel anything . ’
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