Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority .
2 who comes two years later when he has to do the same price again and it costs him money or her .
3 The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion .
4 Now Sir Colin has to spread the same degree of charm throughout BA 's expanding empire .
5 They 're just confirming that not everyone has to sing the same song .
6 Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below .
7 To be equivalent to this , an investment in a two-year bond has to yield the same amount , implying that the current two-year rate is rs 2 = 7 per cent : 100(1.07) 2 = 114.49 .
8 B has to achieve the same end result by using materials available in the early nineteenth century , e.g.
9 One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her .
10 There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together .
11 I 've really had to work hard to get where I got to and when I fight a black guy , I know that he 's had to do the same thing , I think : ‘ Well , he 's had it as hard as me ’ and little zest goes out of your punching , I just want to beat him on points .
12 These two men , and many between , have had to make the same type of decisions about the positions of their steel works .
13 He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet .
14 What makes it look all the more daft is that they will often have to wear the same number tabard all the way through , which over top hat and tails makes them look like someone wearing his vest over his dinner jacket .
15 I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets .
16 The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] .
17 And they , do they all have to carry the same weight ?
18 The writer writes out of his own wounds and in doing so he enables his reader to experience emotional change , emotional growth , healing without having to suffer the same fate as his character .
19 It says it 's wrong that a judge should have to pass the same sentence on an abused wife who kills a brutal husband as it does on a robber armed with a shotgun who kills in cold blood .
20 We would have to meet the same conditions — no more , no less .
21 Erm what I need to do now is just so I 'm gon na have to cross a few things out .
22 In other words , ambitious Labour politicians will have to apply the same skills that win national elections to internal party contests .
23 Rather they explore the possibilities of rhythm and use the two contrasting guitars to show every instrument does n't have to play the same melody .
24 You 'll still have to do a few miles ?
25 Erm that the time has now come to accept that we do have to do the same things and it has to be in black and white and it has to be E E C wide .
26 Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis .
27 At this point , we must admit you do have to press a few buttons to get Delta service .
28 If the table of the guitar has ‘ bellied out ’ you may also have to shave a few millimetres off the bottom of the saddle to achieve a lower playing action .
29 By that they mean that multiplying them together in either order would have to give the same result .
30 On the other hand , the idea of having to use the same ball that went into touch if you want to take a quick throw-in is a red herring .
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