Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [to-vb] an [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 | In this case , the move of premises meant that the employee had to travel an extra 40 miles each day . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the students of Paris saw to it that the French President had to beat an undignified and premature retreat from Bucharest . |
| 4 | For instance , we will invest £30 million to ensure that within 12 months , no child has to use an outside lavatory . |
| 5 | One Head Girl had to reprimand an avid garlic eater . |
| 6 | At this critical moment my father had to escort an Abyssinian Mission , headed by Ras Kassa , to England to attend King George V 's coronation . |
| 7 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 8 | A church has to have an intangible atmosphere , a kind of presence which you are aware of . ’ |
| 9 | Anyone who ‘ uses ’ copyright music has to buy an annual licence from the PRS These ‘ music users ’ include everyone from radio and television stations , clubs , pubs , restaurants , shops , concert halls , dance halls and any other place where there is either live or recorded music audible to the public . |
| 10 | So long as frontier zones of the empire remained insecure , the tsar had to eschew an ambitious foreign policy . |
| 11 | Each infantry battalion and armoured regiment had to have an operational ‘ peg ’ , but much of the sting was taken out of the Sandys Reformation , as far as the Army was concerned , by many of its regiments having 2nd and 3rd battalions , which could be amalgamated with 1st battalions as National Servicemen ran out , thus preserving regimental traditions . |
| 12 | Under The National Investment Programme for Schools and Colleges , each school has to invest an imaginary £10,000 — left to them by an ex-pupil . |
| 13 | Any legal system has to have an ideological base which represents an ideological alliance between the ruling class and other classes and class fractions . |
| 14 | This was noted as long ago as 1975 ( Hughes ) when it was pointed out that the administrator had to present an acceptable change , " for today only acceptable schemes are operable . |
| 15 | Walls and other vertical surfaces should be jetted from above , impact point downwards if possible , even if the operator has to seek an elevated position . |
| 16 | WOMEN face having to work an extra five years under retirement age plans put to the Government yesterday . |
| 17 | It is a defeat for the regime to have to warn an entire city population to stay away from the Tiananmen Square |
| 18 | It is a defeat for the regime to have to warn an entire city population to stay away from Tiananmen Square . |