Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts have to draw a line somewhere when it comes to obviousness although it is difficult to lay down hard and fast rules . |
| 2 | The bikes had to survive a six-week tour in total wilderness , with fifty kilograms of camping gear , and they must not break . |
| 3 | But even the French navy had to divide itself between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coasts and the Russians had to maintain a small separate fleet in the Black Sea . |
| 4 | The drivers had to negotiate a testing two-mile course on the Princess Royal 's Gatcombe Park estate . |
| 5 | Moderate land reform was a cau cautious approach in in that how that the communists had to maintain a fragile balanc balance between the two fundamental aims of the maintenance of support and the increase of production . |
| 6 | He said the Conservatives had to win a reputation for being ‘ a listening party ’ , showing a willingness , where necessary , ‘ to reappraise ’ . |
| 7 | Now the Conservatives have to find a new candidate . |
| 8 | To qualify as a true Prisoner 's Dilemma , remember , the payoffs have to follow a particular rank order . |
| 9 | The plants had to establish a nutrient cycle that would allow the nitrogen content of the sand to increase . |
| 10 | The mines in the Dailly coalfield were notorious for gas and there was a joke in the county 's other mining areas that there was so much gas underground at Dailly that the farmers had to use a Davy safety lamp when ploughing the fields . |
| 11 | At each point shown by a diamond on the diagram , the farmers have to make a decision on what to do with their money . |
| 12 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 13 | The plaintiffs argued that the auditors had to use a basis of valuation which was capable of producing a figure which represented the fair selling value of the shares , and that if that basis were challenged , the court could decide whether the basis was such a basis . |
| 14 | At this time the villagers had to work a number of days for the Bishop and among their duties , they had to send one man from each household to pick the grapes from his vines . |
| 15 | ‘ The players have to take a heap of responsibility for what has happened at Celtic Park , ’ he said , ‘ but the squad is also made up of footballers who want to play in the manner Liam Brady has adopted as his philosophy on the game . |
| 16 | Because of that the reactors had to undergo a licensing procedure from Nuclear , Now that survey , which they have been carrying out for a number of months now , almost certainly would require that a number of major improvements be made to those reactors , and they just have n't got the money to do that at the moment . |
| 17 | So the platers had to use a manual override to get any production at all . |
| 18 | The champions have to overturn a daunting 3-0 deficit at Elland Road tomorrow night if they are to get past Stuttgart and make it into the European Cup second round . |
| 19 | At this point the children have to make a decision . |
| 20 | The children have to make a decision about using the magic , they have to think when would be a good time to use it and when would be harmful . |
| 21 | The Quakers had to withstand a barrage of early pressure , with both Biggins and Stein causing problems in the visitors ' defence . |
| 22 | A banquet is needed ; the cooks have to prepare a menu and the food . |
| 23 | The railways had to accommodate a wide variety of produce under different conditions and at different times of the year . |
| 24 | Out of the gentlemen who came into farming at that time [ before mechanization ] only about one in twenty could make it go : the others had to have a skilled man to manage the farm for 'em . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , in what most people would regard as an obvious case of rape , the victims had to suffer a traumatic experience in court and have their humiliating experiences reported to millions . |