Example sentences of "[be] having [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that they were only just recovering from making cuts last year , now they 're having to do the same again ; only this time there will be redundancies . |
| 2 | We do have occasions where we 're having to say the same thing er over and over again , because nothing very much has happened . |
| 3 | I 'd got some old but we broke all the old ones , so we 're having to use the best |
| 4 | The girls are having to use the public lavatory on the corner and they do n't like it . ’ |
| 5 | It is evident , however , that the police are overstretched and are having to fight the rising tide of car crime with insufficient officers and with one hand tied behind their backs . |
| 6 | It is not so much that those buyers who actually consume the Qm units are having to pay the higher price Pm for them , since the higher price represents the value to them of the marginal unit bought . |
| 7 | ‘ Rescuers are having to walk the last two or three miles carrying all their equipment . ’ |
| 8 | Hollywood filmmakers have become so slavishly dependent on old movies for their narratives that more and more new movies are having to assume the textural trappings of the past . |
| 9 | All these bits , it 's having to go the other erm I 'm so glad you asked us this evening because we do need some practice . |
| 10 | With adults , it 's having to relearn the basic skills we learnt as children . |
| 11 | Will he reflect on the fact that one of the most unpleasant duties of the Northumbria police is having to drag the mangled bodies of motorists from cars that have gone into ditches alongside the A1 while on their way to Scotland ? |