Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [to-vb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our competition , sponsored by independent accountants Scott-Moncrieff Thomson & Shiells , readers had to make their own judgment on 12 elements of the Budget , ranging from income tax thresholds to VAT , excise duties and public borrowing . |
| 2 | In a field which is continually changing , the trainers have to keep their own interpreting skills up to date and their knowledge of the services in which they are training students to work and continually improve their understanding of the cognitive and linguistic processes which underpin those skills . |
| 3 | Recently , thanks to legislation from the EC , all drinkers have to state their alcoholic strength by volume ( ABV ) . |
| 4 | Dawn 's parents had to give their written permission for the transfer , which added to their anxieties about the situation . |
| 5 | In 1984 the OPEC member countries had to reduce their crude oil output to about one half of its potential capacity , and at the same time the price of oil per barrel fell below $30 . |
| 6 | George Pulman , QC , a member of the Bar Council 's working party on contingent fees , told a conference workshop on financing litigation that unlike other forms of contingency fee arrangement , lawyers would have no personal interest in the outcome of litigation and there would be no ‘ legal aid blackmail ’ — where cases are legally aided the normal ‘ costs follow the event ’ rule does not apply and defendants have to meet their own costs even when they win . |
| 7 | Young bands have to find their own team ( agent , manager , publicist and others ) to put around them and to believe in their music . |
| 8 | He raised the tension from episode to episode until the mill girls of the north and midlands had to buy their own copies rather than waiting to borrow one . |
| 9 | Again Corals had to reduce their early odds of 6-1 on Carvill 's Hill for the Gold Cup to 5-1 . |
| 10 | In his The Loves of Mars and Venus the dancers had to tell their own story in different ways . |
| 11 | Which you had , the government , the government or building firms had to guarantee you forty four hours ' payment f of wages , forty four hours guaranteed and you had to get that whether you were working or not . |
| 12 | Individuals have to search more intensively for the most favourably priced goods , and firms have to determine their new prices ( not easy when production costs are continually changing ) and then disseminate the information . |
| 13 | Industrialists have to market their new products without knowing what will happen in 30 years ' time , although accelerated weathering or ageing tests may give some idea . |
| 14 | Radio producers have to remind themselves each week that radio broadcasting is n't about selling records , but about entertaining an audience . |
| 15 | So low was Deems 's voice that his auditors had to give it close attention . |
| 16 | During the years of arms embargo , the South Africans had to develop their own arms industry . |
| 17 | First the newlyweds had to flee their hired Rolls-Royce when it went up in flames . |
| 18 | Also like police court trials , witnesses had to pay their own expenses , even though they sometimes had to travel long distances , especially when a trial was postponed several times . |
| 19 | Indeed in one practice I visited the patients held a Tupperware party to raise money to ‘ help ’ their practice — believing that fundholding meant that the practitioners had to raise their own funds . |
| 20 | She was so badly burned that surgeons had to amputate her left hand . |
| 21 | During the hunts , females are left on their own lot , and so to enable the whole group to re-form after the hunt , the two sexes have to co-ordinate their separate movements , staying within calling distance of each other . |
| 22 | My friends had to have their first sit-down in sight of the car . |
| 23 | Until now users had to find their own or third party drivers to use these chips , but Sunlink ISDN represents delivery of the original promise to have the drivers delivered as standard . |
| 24 | Rural crafts and industries had long provided extra income for smallholders and cottagers , but by Victorian times population and economic growth had created a large , landless labour force whose members had to earn their entire living from a single craft or a manual occupation . |
| 25 | At a recent Thames rodeo the ladies had to provide their own rescues in a heat as the rescue boats had packed up and gone for a brawl ! |
| 26 | Towards the end we read : ‘ Critics have to abandon their own grand , masterly narratives , and engage in the difficulties , limitations , contingencies , specificities , anecdotes and contradictions of raw materials experience . |
| 27 | The ensuing dilemma that arts educators find themselves in is no less than the struggle to transform reality into something which more fully reflects the astounding potential that both boys and girls have to construct their own lives ; to make their own mark . |
| 28 | There was nothing there — men had to make their own markers or monuments , and eventually they had to build an entire landscape of monuments . |
| 29 | They encountered no difficulties en route , although they had to traverse one of the most dangerous ambush points in all South Scotland , at Pease Dean , where the Lammermuirs came directly down to the coast in steep wooded slopes cut up by deep ravines , and round which travellers had to wend their narrow , devious way . |
| 30 | Most travellers had to make their own arrangements with coach , railway or shipping companies . |