Example sentences of "[verb] have [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Who do you think has to deal with the tradesmen and tell them there will be no money to pay their accounts this month — even though there was none last month , and it is highly likely there will be none next month either ?
2 In recent years the DST has had to cope with a conflicting number of loyalties amongst those political refugees France has allowed to enter its country , especially from the Middle East .
3 It has had to cope with a double whammy of recession coupled with turbuence in the Lloyd 's insurance market which accounts for 50% of its business .
4 ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’
5 Mr William Farley , who acquired a slew of manufacturing companies with junk-bond financing arranged by Drexel , has had to resort to a bridging loan from banks to finance his acquisition of West Point-Pepperell , a textile giant .
6 In the 15th century there is a dearth of Florentine musical examples of the laude , and Wilson has had to resort to a discussion of the music found in lauda sources from the Veneto .
7 David DuBon has had to battle with a notoriously difficult subject , and is not afraid to state the plain facts , such as : ‘ it is no longer possible to determine whether its present form is that of the original piece ’ ( Vol .
8 This is not to say that the National Executive Committee of the ruling party allows Nyerere total control of the party and therefore of government policy ; in fact there have always been a number of important policy issues which Nyerere has had to argue through the NEC and which he has not always won .
9 Thus socialism , as the idea of a future form of society , has had to contend with a strong reassertion of individualism and private enterprise , and of civil and political rights against the possibility of autocratic rule ; and a transition to a socialist society now appears a far more complex and uncertain process .
10 The area of special needs in further education/training has had to contend with the fact that it is but a very small part of a very much larger whole , and that the FE college and the training schemes are subject to the vagaries and constraints of the external environment .
11 ‘ Since fall 1980 each American academic exchange delegation to visit Peking has had to sit through a lengthy recounting of the research improprieties I am alleged to have committed , ’ Mosher said , in a statement last week .
12 Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) .
13 Because it is not one of the more imposing buildings for which public funds are more readily available , it has had to rely on the care and attention of those who live around it and they are among the poorer people of the city .
14 The time and dedication demanded do not seem to put people off : the course is so popular that it has had to shift from a country house to a conference centre on an industrial estate in the Midlands .
15 Sarah will no doubt be keen to take the part , but Lloyd Webber has revealed that Roger Moore is not the only actor he has had to talk into a role .
16 Sheffield Wednesday midfielder John Sheridan has had to withdraw from the Republic squad , following the thigh injury picked up in the FA Cup final replay defeat against Arsenal on Thursday at Wembley .
17 IBM Corp has had to call in the headhunters again to find itself a new chief financial officer : it has tapped Russell Reynolds Associates , and the executive search firm says that it was actually hired by IBM prior to appointment of Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive .
18 From the dawn of consciousness until August 6 1945 , man had to live with the prospect of his death as an individual ; since the day when the first atomic bomb outshone the sun over Hiroshima , he has had to live with the prospect of his extinction as a species . ’
19 He says it 's meant his elderly mother has had to live in a house that 's dangerous , barely habitable and will cost eighty thousand pounds to repair .
20 Platt has had to wait in the wings because he is one of four foreign players fighting for the permitted three places .
21 He 's had a bad time lately as Madame Verveine has had to go into the nursing-home again .
22 Within the spirits category , Scotch Whisky has had to compete with a wider range of heavily marketed white spirits .
23 Anyone who has had to work through the shock of bereavement will identify with the emotional upheaval involved .
24 As part of a reassessment of its priorities , SERC has had to look at the balance of its forward planning , in particular to ensure that the funding of grants can recover from necessary short-term stringencies .
25 The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small .
26 Ever since it was formed in a merger 55 years ago , ICI 's portfolio has had to change with the times .
27 If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years !
28 He has had to come to the House with the Bill because he was unable to deliver .
29 The man in charge of Gloucestershire 's schools has had to prepare for the worst — though he hopes a compromise will be reached :
30 If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming .
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