Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [num] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned .
2 ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society .
3 A vicar has had to cancel twenty weddings because his church roof is in danger of collapse .
4 Scotland 's national coach has been disadvantaged only in the sense that so many of his squad come from one club , Rangers , who have had to withdraw six players because of injury .
5 Therefore a firm would have to wait three months before they could determine this charge which is not timely for management purposes .
6 A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder .
7 Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ?
8 I had to wait four days before I could risk flying her again .
9 But The Stars Bow Down , with its biblical theme of Joseph and his brethren , though published in 1939 had to wait ten years before it was performed at the Malvern festival .
10 Rescuers had to wait 40 minutes while power to 780 homes at Shotton Colliery , Durham , was turned off before the body could be moved .
11 cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time
12 We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d .
13 The three key boroughs in east London ( Newham , Tower Hamlets and Southwark ) had to accept 4,400 families as homeless in 1986–7 — a threefold increase on 1981–2 .
14 ‘ It 's good to be just one of a group of comedians doing warm up sometimes you do ten minutes one night I had to do six hours because things were n't ready .
15 They reported back at the end of January 1991 and commented that one of the reasons for the massive underspending was the fact that one had to have three companies before one could apply .
16 Last August the hospital had to close 26 beds because it could n't afford to staff them .
17 Last August the hospital had to close 26 beds because it could n't afford to staff them .
18 The children had to stay within close reach of each other and the hosts had to take two children so they could keep each other company .
19 Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all .
20 " The rules are that if you leave your employment voluntarily you have to wait six weeks before you can claim Unemployment Benefit .
21 Commonly they have to record two frequencies as most interventions employ response competition where it is desirable to record the frequency of both the undesirable prioritised behaviour and the competing behaviour .
22 When England 's centre-forward played like he did tonight you have to score two goals because I always thought Wright would get one . ’
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