Example sentences of "[verb] have [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think a common assessment policy if it is to come has to include the private sector at least in so far as the public sector is funded by private money . |
| 2 | In his only digression from prepared remarks , Francisco Rodriguez said : ‘ The government today has had to control a new attempt at subversion frustrated by the will of our people and of our armed forces to wage struggle . ’ |
| 3 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |
| 4 | There is a trick in making privatisations a success , something that the UK government has had to learn the hard way , and it seems that the Turks have yet to learn it : Reuter reports from Istanbul that the public offer of 20% of the shares in Netas Northern Electric Telekomunikasyon AS was undersubscribed , suggesting that the reason was that the maximum for which any one buyer could subscribe was 5,000 shares , costing the equivalent of $4,450 , which is thought to have put off institutional and foreign buyers . |
| 5 | With the exceptions of Teddy Taylor and John Biffen , of whom more in a moment , each one , because of the strength of his views , has had to eschew a ministerial career , although each would without doubt have made a distinguished holder of office . |
| 6 | Mark , 28 , of Redcar , a former Darlington and Stockton Times reporter part of The Northern Echo group of newspapers has had to master the intricate stereo sound desk . |
| 7 | In addition , she has had to face the emotional stress of the last 15 months . |
| 8 | ‘ My children are shunned at school and every member of my family has had to become an accomplished liar , ’ he said . |
| 9 | As a young director working with all-male crews , Karen has had to confront a high level of overt sexism , something the grant-aided sector does n't necessarily prepare you for . |
| 10 | However , there has been little in the way of tangible action in the post-war period to promote cycling in Britain , so that the rider has had to endure a steady worsening of the travel environment as traffic has become heavier , journeys more circuitous , accidents more pervasive and the relative attractiveness of the bike lowered by comparison with the seductive advantages of the car . |
| 11 | See our problem page maybe one of our NCT mums has had to handle a similar problem . |
| 12 | But in real life she has had to make the difficult transition from child to adult star . |
| 13 | Those who delight in complexities and wish to pursue the matter further will find a number of adequate textbooks and sources of information which will be pointed out with fiendish delight by any qualified librarian , since he has had to run the whole gamut in preparing for his examinations . |
| 14 | He has had to find an alternative group in Europe which will be able to hold its own against the formidable record of Eliot Gardiner 's English Baroque Soloists , and has chosen well with the Hungarian ‘ authentic ’ orchestra Capella Savaria . |
| 15 | Differentiated curricula and the social structure are matched on very firm foundations : by building on these foundations comprehensive reorganization has had to accept the antecedent structures which contradict its stated ideal . [ … ] |
| 16 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 17 | Now Mrs Thatcher has gone and her successor , John Major , has had to launch the biggest gamble of his political career by entering an election race with his party trailing in the polls . |
| 18 | But the 40-year-old left-arm spinner from the wine-producing region of Stellenbosch outside Cape Town , has had to fight the deep prejudices of his fellow Cape coloureds , rather than whites , to achieve his ambitions . |
| 19 | In this case , part of that job involved having to assess the claimed ‘ innocence ’ of Washington . |
| 20 | She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once . |
| 21 | But 5 year old Amy Harding would have found the trauma of having a surgical collar even worse if she 'd had to make the long trip to Gloucester . |
| 22 | It would have been a different story if they 'd had to find the key money for the flat themselves . |
| 23 | Fertiliser use is apparently very limited because of cost in spite of such grants and the RP seemed to have to peddle a narrow course between not stimulating significant agricultural change but allowing enough development to support a viable local economy . |
| 24 | I do not expect to have to remind a senior staff nurse that she should have more consideration for my dining-room staff ! ’ |
| 25 | To avoid having to remember the current state of the display , the attributes may be set explicitly by prefixing the control byte by a parameter count of 50 ( the character " 2 " ) and 43 ( " + " ) for " on " a 45 ( " - " ) for " off " . |
| 26 | They can not win , for the aim of the stressed work-force is to avoid having to embrace the discomfiting uncertainty by construing itself as victimized and manipulated . |
| 27 | The surprise decision to concentrate the main allied armoured thrust to the west of Kuwait was in part motivated by the desire to avoid having to make a frontal assault upon the extensive Iraqi fortifications on the Kuwaiti-Saudi Arabian border . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're going to have to describe the Mattli collection to me . |
| 29 | ‘ Look at the amount of playing and training the top rugby players do , ’ points out Barclay , who reckons that Scotland 's cricketers are now going to have to put the same amount of time and effort into their game to get to the top level . |
| 30 | Some of them are going to have to puzzle a little bit hard . |