Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , if a hostage has to remain behind in enemy hands then it 's clearly better that it should be Summerchild himself . |
| 2 | Lessons should be easy to follow ; that is , the teacher should find it easy to keep his place when he has to look frequently from coursebook to students . |
| 3 | Any correction of ethnic disadvantage , therefore , has to focus both on racism and on the mechanisms of class disadvantage . |
| 4 | Someone has to stay aboard for security reasons . ’ |
| 5 | This means that the opponent always has to step forwards in order to make an attack , thus warning you well in advance . |
| 6 | And as more and more people tune in and switch off , so everything else has to become more like TV in order to appeal to people who have become unable to tune into anything else . |
| 7 | ‘ Father 's had to go away on business , ’ said Mother . |
| 8 | Possibly this shortfall was met by grain production on the Lasithi Plain , but if Lasithi was not tributary to Mallia , the city would have had to look overseas for grain , ‘ buy ’ it from neighbouring territories , or go hungry . |
| 9 | Well I 've said a few words about the Soviet Union but I would like to add that our programme of assistance to the Soviet Union and to other countries in central and Eastern Europe , while it 's had to grow rapidly in response to the urgent needs of reg region , it does not it has not grown and will not grow in any way er which will undermine our commitment to the developing world and er perhaps on that note I might turn to Africa . |
| 10 | TENANTS living in council owned sheltered accommodation could be allowed to keep their pets without having to apply for permission on an annual basis.Uttlesford District Council has allowed tenants to keep a pet dog or cat , but until now only on a temporary basis.For the past two years , tenants have had to apply annually for permission to keep a pet under the council 's rules . |
| 11 | It is well established that a public law decision by a local authority may be open to challenge by way of defence or counterclaim to an action brought by the local authority in the High Court or the county court , notwithstanding the fact that if the defendant had sought to begin the proceedings he would have had to do so by way of judicial review : see Wandsworth London Council v. Winder [ 1985 ] A.C. 461 . |
| 12 | We would have had to rebuild practically from scratch but nevertheless my mind was already way ahead and planning the furnishing and decorating of the place . |
| 13 | Er , if you slept in there you 'd have had to lay there with umbrella up ! |
| 14 | The paper notes specifically that companies would have to invest more in pollution prevention and farmers would have to introduce measures to prevent water being polluted by run-offs from their land . |
| 15 | I shall have to remain here in obscurity , and rot . |
| 16 | He might have to sacrifice somewhat of pay for this end but he would not mind that owing to the chance of rising in the Imperial Service . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't have to go overboard with delight . ’ |
| 18 | Unlike Daniel Miller I do not have to go there in person . |
| 19 | This is because the skilled individual is normally working well within his capacities , he does not have to search desperately for information because he knows exactly what to look for , his movements are not hurried because they are integrated into smooth chains and he does not react suddenly because he anticipates what is going to happen . |
| 20 | Mr O'Neill said defence contractors would have to diversify more in future . |
| 21 | Well , you 'll have to work hard at swimming . ’ |
| 22 | Sometimes you 'll have to work late at night , because of time differences in New York and Tokyo . |
| 23 | If money disappeared from this world entirely , then I would not have to come here in order to get the sort of education I want . |
| 24 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 25 | Despite having to play away from home Armagh remain the bookies choice to advance to face Tyrone . |
| 26 | The reason I ask these things is that we will have to look ahead in case certain difficulties present themselves . ’ |
| 27 | Beginning in 1970 , experiments in Oxford on sheep and monkeys have demonstrated that for several weeks before birth the foetus in the uterus makes periodic breathing movements , rather as if the developing foetus were practising what it would have to do immediately after birth , and that shortage of oxygen to the foetus arrested these breathing movements . |
| 28 | Patriotism will have to do instead of funding . |
| 29 | If the client 's competitors trade on terms which minimise their liability , the client may have to do likewise in order to obtain insurance cover as cheaply as possible , and thus keep its prices competitive . |
| 30 | In contrast , however , with the position on the death of a member , the bankrupt will remain a member and be entitled to attend and vote — though he will have to do so in accordance with the directions of the trustee . |