Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve this end , Sir Edward had to overcome the parochial instincts of many teachers who felt , with some justification , that no Whitehall mandarin or local authority bureaucrat could possibly understand the problems or needs of the particular children they were teaching . |
| 2 | Scottish universities now take many students from the Republic of Ireland and Scotland has to pay the full tuition fees for all those students . |
| 3 | As well as his usual diet , Alan had to consume the following each day : |
| 4 | In the case of public transport Mackintosh ( 1987 ) shows very clearly for London Transport in the early 1980s that politicians from the GLC had to challenge the market-based arguments of the bureaucrats in order to increase subsidy to keep fares down and maintain services . |
| 5 | The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target . |
| 6 | The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target . |
| 7 | In his last adventure Pete had to rescue the beautiful Princess Petal from the evil clutches of the monster Terradawn.And with your help he managed to do it . |
| 8 | After the Stafford Forest Eyre of 1286 the Bishop of Coventry had to pay the enormous fine of £1,000 to recover his ‘ free chase ’ within the royal forest of Cannock . |
| 9 | To demonstrate the possibility of the earth 's rotation , Oresme had to counter the common objections . |
| 10 | and Mr had to see the different people being , acting like a magistrate while he was there as he was district commissioner . |
| 11 | It is a pity Martin had to teach the basic skidding skiing progression . |
| 12 | Somehow Mr Lee has to carry the old guard with him , not least because the mainlanders dominate the legislature as well as the National Assembly . |
| 13 | Lamb and Botham had to swallow the very bitter pill of being dropped . |
| 14 | Just as Jesus had to bear the unwelcome truth ( 7:7 ) so will the Spirit ( 16:8 ) . |
| 15 | Posidonius had to interpret the strong belief in the other world which we know from independent evidence to have existed among the Celts of his time . |
| 16 | To protect its younger members the TUC had to sacrifice the economic freedom of working pensioners , while through Beveridge 's rationalizing , the state retained a flexible reserve army of labour in the younger elderly . |
| 17 | Losses would be double if Grimethorpe had to bear the full cost . |
| 18 | On their way up to their office in the attic , therefore , Ian and Theodora had to pass the open doors of the offices of the Dean and the Archdeacon on the ground floor , and that of Canon Wheeler on the first . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman seems to be totally ignorant of and unable to adjust to President Yeltsin 's announcement in which he made it absolutely clear that our determination to maintain a minimum deterrent is no obstruction to the determination that he and President Bush have to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the super-powers . |
| 20 | He looked exhausted , and Juliet had to subdue the sudden urge she felt to stroke his drawn face . |
| 21 | For a recent commission Edward Hopkins had to match the Gothic influences of church architecture with a restricted church budget , and produced a table of contemporary simplicity |
| 22 | Les Wheeler , his wife Shirley and twin daughters Ceri and Amey from Pillowell in the Forest of Dean had to endure the full razzmatazz of the pools publicity machine before they found out exactly how much they 'd won . |
| 23 | Unable to ‘ hit the bottle ’ , Gary had to take the official doctor home with him before he could provide the required sample . |
| 24 | Zimbabwe has to juggle the conflicting demands of democracy and livelihood for its peasants with the foreign-exchange addiction of its ‘ modern ’ economy . |
| 25 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |