Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] its [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You ca n't use extra national insurance contributions in one year to make up a shortfall in another ; each year has to stand on its own .
2 For example , written language typically has to express things more explicitly , because it has to stand on its own .
3 The result is that Dublin has to stand on its own constant , as well as temporary , merits .
4 Chemistry has to look to its public image — people are not certain whether it is a good thing or not .
5 They buy from it and the design group has to look after its own destiny and its own profitability .
6 ‘ Fishermen from all over the Community have been arguing the same case — that the commission has to look after its own — and the council of ministers has singularly failed to do so . ’
7 Each science has to do with its own genus , or ‘ kind ’ , which is divided by ‘ differentia ’ into various species .
8 In Sweden , government prevention policy has been directed to heterosexuals , so that the gay movement has had to look for its own information .
9 The procedure in a debentureholders ' action is lamentably expensive and dilatory , since the receiver , as an officer of the court , will have to work under its closest supervision and constant applications will have to be made in chambers throughout the duration of the receivership , which may last years if a complicated realisation is involved .
10 However , there is no denying that the picture quality does suffer at these low levels : the colours become increasingly weak and washed-out looking , and the sharpness of the definition falls off because the lens is having to work at its maximum aperture .
11 Its status is such that those who work within this dominant tradition have generally felt able to get on with their work without having to reflect on its theoretical foundations .
12 But each country will have to look at its own resources and solutions .
13 ‘ Each Church will have to look at its own organisation and how it faces up to the problem but the element of mutual trust enables people to look at each other also . ’
14 It sees no problem with adding the Alpha architecture to the MIPS Computer Systems Inc and Intel Corp-based systems it currently offers , a trail that DEC is already blazing in any case , but it has to figure out whether and how it will be able to address the window of opportunity it reckons the industry is now creating with the latest round of hardware and software announcements , and of course , how deep it would have to dig into its back pocket .
15 Is the Minister aware that if the Wakefield district council social services department had to stick to its standard spending assessment it would have to save a further £3 million this year on services for the chronically sick and disabled ?
16 As soon as the war was over , Hungary had to revert to its 1918 frontiers .
17 The company had to bid for its new broadcasting licence at auction and won it with a bid of £2,000 .
18 Dr Upshall said the other main parties gained funds from corporate finance but the Green Party had to rely on its own fund raising .
19 And to what extent will top management have to accept as its top priority making and maintaining a common vision across professional specialties ?
20 A commercial bank operating in the United Kingdom will , of course , have to decide on its desired cash ratio — that is , the ratio of cash to deposit liabilities at which it wishes to operate .
21 Next , bear in mind the lesson Stan Ellin learnt as a teenager from Guy de Maupassant and reduce what you have to tell to its absolute essence .
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