Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In T. H. White 's book , ten-year-old Maria has to learn similar lessons when she discovers a group of Lilliputians . |
| 2 | The book caused Robert Blatchford , editor of the socialist newspaper The Clarion , to write to Mr Carpenter in some concern : economic change had to come first , said Mr Blatchford , and it would therefore be better not to mention sex until after socialism had been achieved . |
| 3 | During a further feast , each cadet had to announce some details of the inner nature of his disguised nourishment . |
| 4 | Each truck has to carry 26 of them , together weighing over a ton . |
| 5 | But ultimately the ordinary allied soldier had to find some reward for his exertions . |
| 6 | Each lineage had to provide suitable young men to act as " husbands " ( enangan ) in the tali-tying ceremonials of their enangar which were grand collective affairs held every ten years or so for all the immature girls of the group . |
| 7 | But under the general principle of rich nations having to pay poor ones to build their economies and stem their pollution it fits well enough . |
| 8 | If either or both these facilities close , the village shop may well be left to cater for only the poor , the old and the immobile , and since the shop on its low turnover has to charge high prices , these people are doubly disadvantaged ( Harman , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 10 | Finally many people of this caste had to find other non-traditional occupations . |
| 11 | ‘ It is unfair for some clubs to have to play three or four times a week during May to complete their lists . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd always suspected big-wave riders had to have more cojones than the average human being , and there was at least one of that species who seemed to bear out my hypothesis . |
| 13 | The selective use of vous and tu forms in dialogues involving different characters suggests that the French translator had to make conscious decisions about the nature of the relationships among different characters in the story and about the social standing of these characters as reflected in their adoption of certain conventions to do with approved/non-approved expression of familiarity and/or deference . |
| 14 | They range from the UK equivalent of plea bargaining to the curiosity that while Boesky , a confessed criminal , can arrange special deals with the prosecution , those charged with lesser offences have to spend three years keeping lawyers in clover while waiting for their turn at justice . |
| 15 | One that forces you to listen to what this 18-year-old has to say next . |
| 16 | The time-pressure may cause serious problems , particularly in small departments where a few engineers have to handle all problems related to product technology . |
| 17 | This lid has to fulfil several other functions . |
| 18 | What plans does my right hon. Friend have to continue air-sea rescue from Portland in my constituency ? |
| 19 | Poor old Ralph has to pay those . |
| 20 | The Labour party must be desperate to get into power if even such venerable leaders as the right hon. Gentleman have to make these obeisances in the direction of Brussels . |
| 21 | Until the Japanese arrived in the 1980s , American and British suppliers had to meet lower standards than the Japanese demand . |
| 22 | So there would b take away this anomaly of old people having to use three buses to get from one end of the town to the other , which means , in actual fact , that each bus they went on to , they paid this ten pence , which if there 's three , if they do not turn it twice a week , twice a day , that 's sixty pence . |
| 23 | The brain behind this operation had to know this . |
| 24 | An official Israeli statement on Feb. 9 emphasized that the Lebanese army had to prevent any further attacks emanating from this area if Israeli reprisals were to be avoided . |
| 25 | As for Matthew , the old man had to admit that , despite his anger at the boy for having deserted him , he still felt a murmuring of affection towards him . |
| 26 | Have to read this letter have to read this afterwards see what it says . |
| 27 | It will mean the replacement of Low Goosepool bridge which , because of its restricted headroom , meant high vehicles had to take lengthy detours . |
| 28 | It 's a question of who decides at this point in time with the government that 's making the decision that the workers in this country have to accept lower standards in almost anything not just wages and terms of conditions , now safety standards . |
| 29 | Unlike stone , flint or ceramics , the raw material has to undergo drastic changes before it is made into the finished artefact . |
| 30 | Social justice has to recompense genetic injustice . |