Example sentences of "have compete [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He warns : ‘ Birmingham has to compete with outlying attractions . |
| 2 | Now London has to compete with New York and Tokyo . |
| 3 | Edinburgh has to compete with London ( 54 hours ) , the large provincial towns ( 56 hours ) , and Holland and Germany ( 60 hours ) " . |
| 4 | First , social policy expenditure has to compete with other public expenditure dedicated to the defence of the realm . |
| 5 | Gillit has to compete with fellow countrymen Rijkaard and Van Basten , plus Papin , Savicevic and Boban for one of the three permitted places open to non-Italians . |
| 6 | McEniff 's zeal for football has not subsided in later years , but it now has to compete with two other compelling passions , his family and his business . |
| 7 | But now that football has to compete with so many other attractions , good results and big names are demanded as the price of continued loyalty . |
| 8 | And the more success it has , the more self-esteem it gains , and the more confidence it has to compete against others , or even the environment . |
| 9 | It often has to compete against church bells or , increasingly , the chatter of the congregation . |
| 10 | Against this background , Scotch Whisky has to compete against strong and growing competition from an increasingly wide range of drinks products . |
| 11 | The 21-year-old , who has competed in the Luton and Brussels marathons , has been in constant training since October and is hoping to complete the course in under three hours . |
| 12 | The 28-year-old , whose interest in running began when he represented his school as a teenage athlete , has competed in three Potteries Marathons clocking up his best time of three hours and two minutes . |
| 13 | He has competed in the Middle East Challenge events for several years and for over two decades has raced both cars and off road vehicles . |
| 14 | Simon rowed in the last Olympics and has competed in 4 world championships . |
| 15 | Since Ormesby was formed , thanks to a handful of enthusiasts , he has competed in tournaments all over the country . |
| 16 | Hodgson shock SQUASH : Stephen Hodgson , York champion for the last three years , who has competed in nine successive finals , winning six of them , crashed to a shock defeat by Marcus Wood in the quarter-finals . |
| 17 | The American is Donny Odom , 24 , who has competed in his country 's national championships twice after spending four seasons maturing on tracks in southern California . |
| 18 | She has never had to compete with private collectors for company archives and hopes she never has to . |
| 19 | Within the spirits category , Scotch Whisky has had to compete with a wider range of heavily marketed white spirits . |
| 20 | Elsewhere socialist parties have had to compete in multiparty and proportional electoral systems and usually share power in government . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ It 's incredible when you consider that my team of part-time lads have had to compete against a side that is full-time . |
| 22 | Ancient dolphins might have competed for resources with seals , giant penguins , and other sea birds . |
| 23 | It was only a dispute over finance with the Olympic authorities which prevented the EEC from enacting a programme in which the athletes of every Member State would have competed in European Community uniforms , mounted the podium to the strains of Beethoven 's Ninth in place of their own anthems , and totted up a European total of medals . |
| 24 | Any BNFL output would have to compete on commercial grounds . |
| 25 | Bidders would be guaranteed a public subsidy , but would have to compete on price and quality . |
| 26 | UK pork and other meat will then have to compete with very cheap lamb |
| 27 | UK pork , and other meats , will then have to compete with very cheap lamb . |
| 28 | A High Street clothes shop , for example , may not only have to compete with another clothes retailer in that street , but also with the large department store in the town centre , plus mail order companies . |
| 29 | A ‘ corner ’ shop selling food and other everyday items may have to compete with both larger and smaller retailers — the supermarket or out-of-town hypermarket on the one hand , the local market stall on the other . |
| 30 | When the females were promiscuous , the sperm of each male would have to compete with those of other males , and the male producing the most sperm was most likely to generate offspring . |