Example sentences of "have [to-vb] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put it simply , in criticizing ideology , critical theory has to establish itself as not prone to the same failings as ideology . |
| 2 | Simply put , 88open either has to reinvent itself or hang it up . |
| 3 | A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct . |
| 4 | That 's very true and they have a the industry itself , you know , now has to pick itself up and say right we , you know , and it 's very easy to talk oneself into recession and January and February , normally fairly dull months anyway , we are now , on March the first , Saint David 's Day , at the brink of a season which could be one of the best seasons they ever have . |
| 5 | The left also has to draw itself out of the mire into which it has been plunged following the 1960s renaissance of Marxist ideas in the Labour movement . |
| 6 | But it is entitled to complain that it has to defend itself against attacks from an equally uneasy fusion of Daily Telegraph Toryism and free-market radicalism — so that it gets criticised both for going downmarket , and for not going far enough downmarket . |
| 7 | Without readers , no newspaper can survive ; with sufficient readers , and willing advertisers , the chances of survival are greater but the medium still has to prove itself . |
| 8 | The BG-BASE system has to prove itself by being actively promoted to its target users . |
| 9 | On Bosnia , while Britain has welcomed US involvement , it has had to keep itself from dismissing as laughable the feasibility of proposed US airdrops . |
| 10 | Dr Smith explained that MB Group , formerly Metal Box , had identified Caradon 18 months ago as a suitable means of expanding into building products but the company had had to reorganise itself and create a new management team to make the current deal possible . |
| 11 | The Butlins Empire has now had to market itself anew for the experienced package tourist ; a move from wooden chalets to brick-built country suites , from the Minehead Camp to Summerwest World . |
| 12 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 13 | Recent work on lesbian alcoholism has had to devote itself first to disproving deviancy models of this condition ( e.g. Anderson and Henderson 1985 ) . |
| 14 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 15 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 16 | The US , even more than Britain , has had to propel itself into international roles in order to create the illusion of being a united nation-state . |
| 17 | If the European Fighter Aircraft fails to go ahead , the Government will have to brace itself for a further jobs bombshell . |
| 18 | Most City analysts do not expect to see a dividend paid before 1992 and the less optimistic believe Lowndes will have to refinance itself again next year . |
| 19 | Faced with the gathering rush by users to downsize to open systems , Dun & Bradstreet Software is having to downsize itself , and will cut employment worldwide by about 13% , 400 people , by the end of next year . |
| 20 | To satisfy that humble demand the GMC , pace its president , would not have to set itself up as ‘ an investigation bureau to assess the scientific validity of new treatments before allowing doctors to use them . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Because of the financial strength of the company ’ , Hobor said , ‘ it does n't have to constrain itself during a downturn — in fact its philosophy has always been the opposite : when you 're in a downturn , that is when you should be investing in plant and equipment ’ . |
| 22 | The KGB would have to sort itself out . |
| 23 | Firstly the package did not have to sell itself as it does in self service shopping , since the salesman himself acted to promote the products . |
| 24 | Either it will spread , cancer-like , to destroy mankind , or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism . ’ |
| 25 | never having to justify itself |
| 26 | A band does n't have to concern itself with filling in PRS forms at their gigs until they are working in these larger venues . |
| 27 | Others , including Hobson and Brailsford , went further , arguing that any League would have to concern itself with economic and social , as well as purely diplomatic , matters if the deeper causes of war were to be addressed . |
| 28 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 29 | The Royal Family will have to adapt itself to new circumstances , and , in some ways , it will be approaching nearer to the people , because it will be sharing many of the problems which all of us have faced . ’ |
| 30 | But in practical terms , the organizational imperative to avoid appeal means modifying demands in the course of negotiations if there is any suggestion that the agency might have to defend itself in an appeal : ‘ we try to see ’ , said a senior officer , ‘ there are no grounds for reasonable objection . ’ |