Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is such a cohesive , well-oiled unit that the band rarely has to call for outside assistance . |
| 2 | Individual property owners in cities have long had to conform to legal controls , but planning as a more widespread activity dates only from the mid-twentieth century ( Hall 1982 ) . |
| 3 | It 's bad enough having to rely on old daddy Reagan and Maggie Thatcher . |
| 4 | The CNAA was constantly having to negotiate on uncertain frontiers , and interpret and define forms of higher education for which there were no clear precedents or guidelines . |
| 5 | Second , the axial spin rate of the Earth 4600 Ma ago can be estimated using the principle of conservation of angular momentum by giving the Earth all the present angular momentum of the Moon plus the orbital angular momentum of the Earth and the Moon around their centre of mass : the Earth spins nowhere near fast enough to have spun off lunar material and no very plausible means have been suggested whereby the Earth-Moon system could since have lost the necessarily copious amount of angular momentum . |
| 6 | There were , therefore , problems that Developments sought to solve , and in doing so had to contend with entrenched positions . |
| 7 | Thus , schools not only have to deal with financial delegation but they have to be very aware of market forces . |
| 8 | ‘ You only have to look at unmanned stations like Thornaby , Stockton and Seaham to imagine the scale of the problem . |
| 9 | Darlington Civic Theatre YOU only have to look at young Roald Dahl booklovers , eager to see the stage play , to wonder at the gap in theatre material for such a ready audience . |
| 10 | Second , and more important , they were mass-produced out of durable materials and so have survived in large numbers . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , it is often the most deprived areas or people who are least able to help themselves , and in many rural areas the decline in rural transport and rural services outlined above has led to real rural deprivation . |
| 12 | Since then , Bonar 's African operations — hit hard by political upheavals and devaluation — have largely had to survive on local earnings , with little or no investment from their Scottish parent . |
| 13 | Some things were made from almost pure platinum , others showed small proportions of gold that could easily have arisen from imperfect sorting . |
| 14 | Police say the fires could easily have spread to nearby houses . |
| 15 | The so-called Stalker affair re-emerged throughout January 1990 following the collapse on Jan. 18 of fraud charges against Kevin Taylor , a Manchester businessman and alleged criminal with whom John Stalker , the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester , was said to have associated and thus to have engaged in discreditable conduct . |
| 16 | This use seems generally to have grown in recent years . |
| 17 | Now individuals and community groups had the facts at their fingertips to refute the placatory statements of the developers and corporate businessmen , and no longer had to rely on instinctive judgements to support their case . |
| 18 | The growth of the inter-bank market ( see below ) has meant that banks no longer have to rely on attracting deposits to cover their lending . |
| 19 | It begins with Banking and Finance , Advertising and the Promotion Industry and Marketing , and booksellers no longer have to apologise for ancient and/or American ESP special English titles . |
| 20 | Most of the discussions above have centred upon specific factors particular to Britain . |
| 21 | THE LOCAL environment of the Arabian peninsula makes large-scale agricultural exploitation difficult , so the inhabitants have always had to capitalise on foreign demand for available resources . |
| 22 | Although the housing scheme is the size of a town , the working class people who were placed in them were never afforded the amenities or investment of a town and from the beginning until present , have always had to fight for decent schools , transport , shops , housing , play , entertainment and recreation facilities , all the basic infrastructure needed to build a community and which the people in the inner city and middle class parts of the city take for granted . |
| 23 | Many older Shetlanders lay great stress on a boom and bust theory of history : according to this theory Shetland and Dunrossness have experienced booms in the past , but they have always had to revert to traditional lifestyles and industries when they pass . |
| 24 | That may even have been an underestimate since the count was made mainly in the dry , lowland areas whereas numbers of elephants may still have existed in undeveloped parts of the central mountain massif . |
| 25 | His description of the Roman military camp ( 6.27–42 ) is almost certainly derived from a book , and even the description of a Roman levy on the Capitol ( 6.19–21 ) seems to be taken from a written account , since , as Professor Brunt has lately shown in detail , it can hardly have corresponded to contemporary practice ( Italian Manpower 225 B.C.–A.D. 14 ( 1971 ) , 625–34 ) . |
| 26 | The implication is that it is somehow self-evident that anything so wonderful as this could not possibly have evolved by natural selection . |
| 27 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 28 | One aspect of this has been the Care in the Community programme , which has seen the closure of many long-stay institutions and which has resulted in large numbers of disabled people re-entering the social arena , but still having to struggle for basic rights of access . |
| 29 | For instance , shipping conferences or consortia are not intrinsically anticompetitive , but would only get EC clearance if member firms still had to compete with independent lines on any given route and if the cost savings and other spin-offs from collaboration were passed on to clients and consumers . |
| 30 | Her feet felt weird — more than they ever had dabbling in ice-melt . |