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

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1 Considerations of finance are important in relation to that , because I do not believe that British Rail has to build an underground station in order to achieve its purpose .
2 The new Christian has to learn the old hymns and to appreciate them .
3 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 .
4 But I 'm not blaming the journalists , they 're under a lot of pressure ; the CBS or the BBC correspondent has to do the one report for the day .
5 The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data .
6 In order to breathe during this operation , the young waxbill has to adopt a particular posture ; young whydahs and indigo birds adopt this too .
7 Mica is an ionically bonded mineral in which , because of the arithmetic of the electrical charges in the molecule , every so often there is a layer of metal atoms in the crystal in which each atom has to share a single electron 's worth of charge with several near neighbours , so that this layer in the crystal is a weak one .
8 First , while parliament has to vote the annual Estimates , the party system in the House of Commons is such that it is virtually unknown for Parliament to amend the Estimates put to it by the government .
9 The user has to judge the exact moment to stop .
10 On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers .
11 Any major player in this field has to take the imminent MPEG standard very seriously .
12 The flash has to have a manual override to be useful , as it will serve only to tell the operator when a photograph has been taken .
13 To receive protection under the 1976 Act , an agricultural employee has to achieve the legal status of ‘ qualifying worker ’ , which requires that the person has worked at least 91 out of the preceding 104 weeks whole-time in agriculture .
14 Though not used by homoeopathic pharmacies in this country for potencies below the 1M , it is used commercially in Belgium for all potencies , and is also used when a practitioner has to make a specific potency for a particular patient , such as a potency of chloroform for a case of chloroform allergy .
15 In October , they issued a new set of tariffs which provide that a car owner who suffers a loss has to make a larger contribution and introduce the principle and concept of a premium reduction for certain security devices .
16 He did not know where , and did not particularly care , except that it meant that the Establishment was on Amber Black , and every car had to have the magic mirror wand shoved underneath the chassis .
17 It is true that even during the final talks in Moscow the American delegation had to keep a wary eye on those at home who argued against the surrender of the advantages which they expected the United States to derive from further tests above ground .
18 In this case , the move of premises meant that the employee had to travel an extra 40 miles each day .
19 Unfortunately , the students of Paris saw to it that the French President had to beat an undignified and premature retreat from Bucharest .
20 Another effect of the development of the hard woody stem is that , as soon as they are established , climbers drop the tendency to put up new growth from ground level ( as ramblers do ) and so pruning has to follow a different principle ( see pages 54–72 ) .
21 Management has to create a workable structure for collaboration , taking into account the objectives of all the various interest groups or ‘ stakeholders ’ in the organisation .
22 At present , the Institute 's application procedures and strict supervision requirements mean that senior management has to offer a substantial amount of time and commitment .
23 So the law has to play a little con-trick .
24 ‘ If the law has to have a proper effect then landlords and breweries should know that to serve young people like this , they are in danger of losing their licences . ’
25 At the outset , the employee inventor seeking statutory compensation has to establish the true source of the benefit derived by his employer from the invention .
26 For instance , we will invest £30 million to ensure that within 12 months , no child has to use an outside lavatory .
27 Even inset boards , where a child has to match a certain shape , e.g. a lorry to its silhouette , are difficult for the beginner who does n't always realise that he is trying to put it in upside-down .
28 When it was shown to publishers , however , it was rejected as ‘ too difficult ’ , and indeed its young hero has to resolve the different claims of loyalty to an oath and his friends or his duty to his country as represented by the autocratic but not tyrannous government .
29 At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes .
30 Bohr therefore supposed that the electron had to occupy a circular orbit whose angular momentum took one of the discrete values
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