Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Christian has to learn the old hymns and to appreciate them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The user has to judge the exact moment to stop . |
| 4 | Any major player in this field has to take the imminent MPEG standard very seriously . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The boxer : the end of the round , the bell went , his seconds had put down his stool , he was there to sit , and his opponent had to walk the whole way back to his own corner . |
| 10 | He added that in order to find a reasonable solution to the situation ETA had to recognize the Basque parliament as representing the will of the Basque people and accept certain conditions attached to possible peace talks . |
| 11 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 12 | The poll tax or community charge had to meet the remaining quarter . |
| 13 | Man 's mind yearns for a rural existence — where 99.999% of his evolution occurred — but for many of us , mind and body have to take the daily buffets of urban , industrial civilization . |
| 14 | It is not self-evident that all clarifications or developments of the laws of war have to take the familiar form of multilateral conventions . |
| 15 | This court has to balance the competing interests of the freedom of the press to provide information , to comment , criticise , offend , shock or disturb , against the right of a governmental corporation to be protected against the false , or seriously inaccurate , or unjust accounts of its activities . |
| 16 | A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites . |
| 17 | Because she had to drive the RFFS vehicle , the crash crew person had to don the protective clothing after arriving at the scene . |
| 18 | This method of grinding grain had to await the human skill to fabricate tools from two materials because three wooden parts were essential to the rotary mill : the rynd which bridged the eye of the runner stone and enabled it to be hung on top of the wooden spindle , and the handle , used for turning the running stone . |
| 19 | Without influential subjects serving about the pope , the king had to enlist the utmost support which he could muster among the cardinals in order to shape the papal response to his demands . |
| 20 | Academic researchers working in higher education have to convince the relevant committees in their institution that the work is important enough for scarce resources to be devoted to it . |
| 21 | That court has , on more than one occasion , held that a decision of the English courts has violated a litigant 's rights under article 10 and this on occasion has led to Parliament having to change the substantive law . |
| 22 | Thus the Commission has to determine the relevant geographic market . |
| 23 | The restaurant manager has to know the estimated number of guests to be expected in the restaurant and in order to prepare the meals the chef needs to be informed of any special requirements . |
| 24 | While this may be a reasonable stance for finance academics to adopt , even though the problems in analysing cash flows and given probabilities have been shown to be far from trivial , the practising manager has to recognize the limited scope of the ‘ investment problem ’ addressed by the current theory of finance . |
| 25 | If a band do n't write their own songs , the manager has to find the right songwriters . |
| 26 | Now consider the effect of applying a load torque equal to the pull-out value , so that the motor has to produce the maximum available torque . |
| 27 | The woman has to set the enticing fruit , the desire to have knowledge like God himself , against God 's plain command . |
| 28 | The rev counter has to approach the red line before the engine becomes noticeable . |
| 29 | try " filling in the blank " and " choosing the right form " exercises , e.g. in which the student has to choose the right plural endings for different noun classes . |
| 30 | So we come to the second implication , which is that the student has to understand the practical aspects of the life of reason . |