Example sentences of "[prep] having [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The 39-year-old Scot , despite having to contend with hay fever and a heavy cold , kept Ian Woosnam , Paul Broadhurst and Johan Rystrom at bay to move up to sixth place in the Ryder Cup points list .
2 Oxford , after the War and after national service and in spite of the minor irritation of having to carry into Hall private rations of butter and sugar , was a place of freedom .
3 There are also connotations , however , of freedom from fear , freedom from the boredom of having to deal with work for which the learner has no motivation , freedom to move from activity to activity as desired .
4 Somehow the sight of this touched Ianthe , who had never herself been in the position of having to wait till pay-day .
5 ‘ And the trapping of having to go on radio stations and saying , ‘ Hi , how are ya doin' ? ’ and all that sort of press … ’ moans Ian .
6 Shaw was facing the prospect of having to retire from football , after he suffered a serious cruciate injury in only his second game for Conference side Runcorn at the beginning of last season .
7 Shaw was facing the prospect of having to retire from football , after he suffered a serious cruciate injury in only his second game for Conference side Runcorn at the beginning of last season .
8 I also welcome Amendment twenty-seven which sets out plans for the appointment by the Secretary of State for members of authorities which will have sanction of having to come before Parliament before accepted and I think that again is extremely important .
9 In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing .
10 Their low cost means that a secretary can have a computer to herself instead of having to compete for time with many other users from other departments in the company .
11 She could n't imagine what it would be like having to get into bed with the elegant stranger who turned to speak to her now and then .
12 The organization fostered and developed such myths because they were then freed from having to take on board the understandings and implications of carrying out the work .
13 My Lord , the number will be a great many , primary schools teachers are of course spe er generalists not specialists and a primary school teacher with only religious education as a specialism would be disadvantaged quite seriously in having to cope with teaching maths and English and science and history , geography , art and music and so on .
14 The four first-year women at B subverted this by swapping lab books ; Marie said , ‘ We 're not meant to , but we do ’ — as if there were some shame attached to having to ask for help .
15 ‘ Actually , I thought it was almost funnier that time , ’ Edward said , freezing his face , as he was used to having to do in court .
16 They were objecting to having to travel by bus everyday to their laboratories and classrooms located on another site .
17 The ‘ skill mix ’ of the workforce may have a bearing on the conduct of the strike , since skilled workers tend to have a more harmonious relationship with the employer , and their relatively favoured position in the labour market usually enables them to achieve their demands without having to resort to violence .
18 The winches could then be run instantly without having to wait for steam to be available .
19 Subsidiary companies included in a valid group income election can pay dividends up to their holding company without having to account for ACT ( s 247(1) ( 2 ) ) .
20 In that case the exercise of a statutory power to make rules concerning indemnity for losses arising from liability for professional negligence was held to empower the Law Society to take out a master insurance policy and to require solicitors to pay the premiums without having to account for commission received from the brokers .
21 It also suits the fans likewise , who quite like to pop off to the cricket after lunch , and who also might like to travel to away league matches without having to leave before dawn to see the first ball bowled .
22 Thus by the use of cheques , credit cards , standing orders , etc. , money can be transferred from one person or institution to another without having to rely on cash .
23 For we can hardly use language to throw light upon the basis from which language itself derives its meaning , without having to rely on allusion and metaphor .
24 If they had displayed a disclaimer ( sufficiently bold , precise and compelling ) they would have avoided commission of the offence even without having to rely upon section 24 ( see paragraph 16–11 ) .
25 I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college .
26 What I what I 'd really hope for is to be able to do it without having to go to college and just do it by experience but that 's I 'd have to be awful awful good .
27 In this co-operative situation , the students often help each other solve simple problems about terminal operation etc without having to ask for advice from a teacher .
28 We have arranged credit facilities with another travel agent Gray Dawes , as well as Key Travel , which enables Christian Aid to book tickets without having to pay in advance .
29 Costless mobility implies that there are no work problems , i.e. that households can move without having to obtain alternative jobs or without having to worry about transport costs to their place of work .
30 The development tools allow programmers to concentrate their efforts on the finer points of the program without having to worry about compatibility problems .
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