Example sentences of "have [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action .
2 One is driven to the conclusion that here , too , the charge has most to do with symbolism .
3 By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability .
4 A shrewd theologue said that personality has all to do with function .
5 It is a faith that believes it has only to ask in order to receive : e.g. in the cure of the leper ( Mark 1:40–5 ) .
6 As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’
7 If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land .
8 The inbuilt bias towards the big clubs has undoubtedly fuelled inflation in the transfer market ; one has only to look at Manchester United , who raked in nearly £1m from television last season .
9 One has only to travel by train from the north-east of England to see the land which has been set aside , squeezed between the railway lines , to realise what the farmers are doing .
10 On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation .
11 One has always to bear in mind that for very many people in early-modern England — in the towns as much as in the countryside — the home was also the place of work .
12 In one case , which has still to come to trial , it is not clear which hat the salesman was wearing when he made his deals : his own or the life company 's .
13 THOSE who feel Lord Arran has little to say about agriculture must now change their opinion of the Minister who has also to look after health matters in the province .
14 The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave .
15 I have had regular and extensive contact and dealings with the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service as an ordinary Member who has regularly to deal with immigration matters .
16 If a strip of the tissue that has yet to segment into somites is cut out of a chick embryo , turned through 180 degrees and replaced , the somite formation proceeds normally up to the site of the graft , but will then continue from the rear edge of the inverted piece , the sequence now going in a direction opposite from normal until the operated piece is fully segmented , and will then continue normally , again from the rear edge .
17 We 're midway through Act II and a solitary six-pack has yet to hove into view .
18 Fortunately for his pectorals and his cranium , Mr Stallone has yet to fall in love with a woman who likes men with small busts and large brains .
19 Deane has yet to score at home !
20 ‘ … as they pass the three-furlong marker , it 's still the Guppy , who 's made every yard of the running , behind him a group of horses led by the grey Prince Charming , Cy McCray has yet to move on Breakdancer , Shine On has an awful lot still to do … ’
21 The device is called the Microdrive , but it has yet to go on sale , and in any case will be based on a tape rather than a disc .
22 Arnold himself conducted it on an EMI recording of 1980 , but sadly that has yet to appear on CD .
23 It has yet to appear in Britain : BSR does not see sufficient demand in the UK to justify manufacture of a converted system .
24 The project crew has yet to appear in Punta del Este , so the crew has no money to pay bills already incurred , and their passports have been left in France to be given Australian visas .
25 At the time of going to press he is taking action but the action has yet to come to trial .
26 The first , albeit tenative , steps towards forming a new Pacific-based economic union display an astute awareness of the way events are moving within Europe : movements with which Number 10 has yet to come to grips .
27 The locals field one former Test player , Madan Lal , and although Maninder Singh — last seen being swept to oblivion by Gooch in the Bombay World Cup semi-final — was practising at the England net yesterday , he has yet to come to terms with an attack of the yips .
28 He has yet to come to terms with the fact that a popular front of the mind or body means a Labour leader in Number 10 .
29 But and you know , like , for mothers er trying to get buggies and shopping and everything up , they 'd either to go up stairs or down stairs .
30 erm because , to get in to the flat they 'd either to go up stairs from the deck , or downstairs from the deck , and to try and manage that with small children , probably a buggy and shopping as well .
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