Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This speech is magnificently done as Antony has to obey certain rules which he does , but still convinces them that the conspiracy was wrong . |
| 2 | Well , what you need , Joe , is to follow my fitness regime — the one designed for people who , in their heart of hearts , with their cigarettes already lit , wish they had more than just two hands to eat with , but because they are also cursed with a love for sport have to get fit the best they can . |
| 3 | Now that both the Secretary of State for Defence and the Prime Minister have comprehensively rubbished those assurances , will the Secretary of State for Scotland have to eat humble pie again or will he stand up for Scotland and make this a resignation issue ? |
| 4 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 5 | At its height the ‘ feudal ’ system meant that Sussex could muster over 300 fully equipped mounted men , 84½ of whom were the responsibility of the Earls of Arundel and another 60 of the de Warennes ; the bishop of Chichester had to find four . |
| 6 | Do the assumptions of heads have to attach less weight than might be reasonable to , for instance , a colleague 's attitude of reluctance ? |
| 7 | All later forms of religion have to handle this problem , and do so even though they use different means . |
| 8 | As on Tiree , we have a banking monopoly on Barra So Donald John and his three members of staff have to tread that tricky path between fair play and the demands of commercialism . |
| 9 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
| 10 | But a complete justification of authority has to do more than to provide valid reasons for its acceptance . |
| 11 | I believe that there are many examples of people having to pay large sums to solicitors who are not experienced in immigration matters to deal with such matters . |
| 12 | A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship . |
| 13 | Clearly it is felt that the Secretary of State has to approve external qualifications taken by pupils in maintained schools . |
| 14 | Thus , the Secretary of State has to show reasonable grounds for believing ( in this broadened sense ) that the local authority was acting unreasonably . |
| 15 | Since this effectively precludes the existence of internal organisation as a source of elite power , this line of explanation has to find other such sources and other unifying characteristics . |
| 16 | We residents and poll tax payers of Everton have to endure little or no street lighting at all . |
| 17 | The purchaser of records had to send three wrappers for each record , so he had first to acquire them . |
| 18 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 19 | The city of Rome had to appear worthy of its position . |
| 20 | But the secret agents of SMERSH have to remain secret , so they use a code letter instead of numbers . |
| 21 | Many people with AIDS have to spend long periods of time in hospital unless there is someone at home who can help and look after them . |
| 22 | The one stumbling block is that people who come to the bank for loans have to pay half the consultant 's fee — which could come to several hundred pounds . |
| 23 | The East and West African cables for example had to cross Portuguese territory , as did the South America cable which used the island of Madeira as a way-station . |
| 24 | One of the buildings totally flattened was the new home of the deaf in the town , so for the second time within the space of one year , the deaf in Exeter had to find new club premises . |
| 25 | I thought that was terrific , but the sergeant in charge had to take 5 months over paperwork to get them into court . |
| 26 | In late May , police in Oregon had to reinforce back-road patrols after gunfire erupted in disputes over mushroom grounds . |
| 27 | But some of the rules , about not having visitors , meant that all my visitors that came from London had to walk round town . |
| 28 | If risk-averse hedgers are going to transfer risks effectively to risk-averse speculators , speculators will on average have to hold long futures positions . |
| 29 | Essentially , what had to happen was that a group of adolescent males without females had to obtain some , without allowing their group to dissolve in internecine strife over who would become the owner of the newly acquired females . |
| 30 | ‘ Every player in the UK industry without exception has to source high value components on the international market , ’ says Elonex m.d . |