Example sentences of "[noun] have had [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young director working with all-male crews , Karen has had to confront a high level of overt sexism , something the grant-aided sector does n't necessarily prepare you for . |
| 2 | For example , in Conservative Ealing , tenants have had to face a 100 per cent . |
| 3 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 4 | Miss Danziger was not an ugly woman but the Colonel had had to take a long hard look to discover her good features : her bone structure ; strong fair hair streaked with less fair strands ; her pale complexion , unpainted . |
| 5 | So the reality is that , in the last seven months , the Taylors have had to make a radical reassessment of family expectations . |
| 6 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |
| 7 | See our problem page maybe one of our NCT mums has had to handle a similar problem . |
| 8 | Basil had had to choose a minor language as part of his Classical Philology course . |
| 9 | Over here the ball turns and our batsmen have had to learn a new technique in five weeks . |
| 10 | Local authorities have had to implement a controversial Act , involving a considerable increase of responsibility for them , at a time when the creation of the new social services departments preoccupied the child care and social work staff . |
| 11 | However , there has been little in the way of tangible action in the post-war period to promote cycling in Britain , so that the rider has had to endure a steady worsening of the travel environment as traffic has become heavier , journeys more circuitous , accidents more pervasive and the relative attractiveness of the bike lowered by comparison with the seductive advantages of the car . |
| 12 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |