Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have [to-vb] a " in BNC.

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1 Safety rule regulations have to have a hat on your head .
2 What this hypothetical committee chairman has to offer a president is self-evident , but what favours can the latter trade in return for the chairman 's support ?
3 When emergency procedures are used to take a child into care , the Social Work Department has to obtain a Place of Safety order signed by a Sheriff or a Justice of the Peace .
4 Bird brains A Welsh rugby team had to play a Spanish soccer team during a tour , after a language mix-up in arranging the game .
5 Councillors arriving for Leominster 's Planning Committee meeting had to walk a silent gauntlet of children and parents to get to the council chamber .
6 The adherents to the Peace Alliance had to undergo a serious reorientation in their political attitudes .
7 The bright gold and green foliage which makes the crowning glory of the winter border has to become a backdrop for the summer garden .
8 Debra Busuttil will never have another baby because after labour was induced for the dead child doctors had to perform a life-saving hysterectomy .
9 When there were tragic cases of dangerous dogs assaulting young children , the Home Secretary had to produce a Bill overnight .
10 Led by Alberta Premier Donald Getty , the western provinces demanded that any constitutional reform package had to include a Senate which was wholly elected and which included an equal number of representatives from each province regardless of its size .
11 In general , an aggro leader has to show a distinct sense of fearlessness — he has to be a ‘ hard case ’ .
12 On his way back to the Incident Room Wycliffe had to weave a way through milling crowds who had deserted the beaches and taken to window shopping .
13 Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment .
14 Indeed , in order to develop properly , brine shrimp eggs have to undergo a period of desiccation .
15 The station buildings had to incorporate a variety of waiting-rooms for the classes , races , and sexes , restaurants and toilets equally diverse , as well as resting-rooms and bathrooms for Europeans .
16 For the deaf , welfare officers had to provide a communication and translation service where necessary .
17 And as I say you used to have to erm children used to hav well the elder children had to give a turn with the mangling .
18 The indicators of success in a compliance system , however , are vague because compliance itself is a vague and open-ended concept ( ch. 6 ) , and the enforcement agent has to fulfil a variety of roles demanding a wide range of skills and knowledge .
19 If we consider a machine with clockwise blade rotation , the tail rotor has to apply a push to the right side of the tail to cancel the torque reaction .
20 In actual competition , taekwondo exponents have to wear a specific , padded body armour , which is a sleeveless jacket fastened at the back with cord ties .
21 The underthread for the lockstitch is provided by the bobbin , and the needle thread has to perform a loop to go around the bobbin which is held in a bobbin case under a slide plate .
22 In university libraries the organization of staff for book provision has to resolve a major difficulty — the respective roles of university departments vis-à-vis the library staff .
23 It was not possible to vary this , because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism .
24 Half had been discharged quite recently from an acute psychiatric admission ward — hostels provide a cheap and available alternative to a permanent home and avoid the mental health teams having to plan a more satisfactory discharge .
25 During training Catherine had to acquire a few hair-raising skill such as flying upside down and rescuing the aircraft from a stall .
26 Additionally , each Health Authority had to identify a local person with responsibility for implementing management development strategies .
27 Every three hours the Met Assistant had to plot a chart — that is , working from the coded symbols sent on the teleprinter , draw up on a large blank map of Great Britain the weather at that time over the whole country .
28 ‘ Every month the city verderers have to deliver a fat buck for the Dean 's kitchen ; in thanksgiving the Dean and Chapter perform this dance . ’
29 Hire purchase , credit sale and conditional sale advertising had to give a comprehensive picture of costs ( if it mentioned any financial terms ) , and any interest rate it quoted had to approximate to a true annual rate of interest , but the formula used was different from the one in the Moneylenders Acts .
30 Bassetlaw 's community care services have to reach a scattered , mainly rural population
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