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

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1 ‘ Anything going in or out of the valley has to pass along this road . ’
2 She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day .
3 In choosing , Alsys has to weigh up two objectives : which technology has greater market share and is more attractive to third parties and which technology will be the standard internally at Thomson for engineering .
4 When the second parent dies , the family has to share out any money and possessions .
5 To see the biblical renewal of liturgy successful in Europe , one still has to seek out certain churches .
6 To understand this , one has to think along certain lines , about what it means to talk of a sensation being in a certain part of one 's body .
7 I said that to understand this difficulty one has to think along certain lines .
8 ‘ One has to lay down some ground rules for any work of art .
9 For him , critical writing has to take up wider issues than enjoyment of a picture or a sculpture .
10 It has to take up private time — and at home .
11 In brief , he has to step back two generations and undergo what one may call a painful cultural circumcision ( God 's Lively People , Fontana , 1971 ) .
12 On a Sunday , they could go down to chapel , the old girls 'd to go down one side of the aisle , they 'd go down the other , the old men , tried to put his hand out , touch the old lady …
13 So I said , we done all that , and then we 'd to go back fourteen miles .
14 ‘ I thought it would give you something to do , now that you 've had to give up that idea of working full-time , and with Hugh away in , well , wherever it is , it 'll be company for you . ’
15 While our friends have made their new houses look good in just a few hours with a lick of paint , we 've had to put up new ceilings , repair skirting boards and hack off layers of old tiles .
16 But it is perhaps worth noticing here that firms have not been conspicuously forthcoming with offers to fund the schools , and the DES itself has had to put up considerable sums to support the first of them .
17 Perhaps she had often had to put up this kind of defence Ianthe thought .
18 And now he 's had to knock off another £46,000 , making it a bargain basement snip at £239,000 .
19 To accommodate it on the upflow tube we 've had to trim off another inch or so of piping with the hacksaw .
20 And although he has seen some strange sights down the Big Apple 's drains , the real-life Mario has never had to fight off fire-breathing dragons or deadly piranha flowers .
21 I 'm a bit better but I 've had to get out this morning to let June stay in !
22 GEC has had to pay out hefty sums in redundancy payments , removal expenses and the rent on a factory that is still empty .
23 New or secondary issue underwriters have rarely had to take up undersubscribed issues as the timings of such are usually gauged to ensure the full take-up of the shares on offer .
24 With goods and people from EC states now able to move freely within the Continent , officers are having to carry out more specialist work to prevent drugs reaching the streets .
25 Police were also having to carry out more paperwork in accordance with the recommendations of a national working group on pre-trial issues .
26 Again there is a need for a clear partnership between the school and the LEA with schools and colleges having to carry out first-line responsibility for quality assurance .
27 ALL good news , but I fear that taxes may have to go up next year if the Chancellor misses his projected £244.5bn target on spending .
28 Aye , but I 'll have to go down next week because they 're off school .
29 I 'll have to go back some day .
30 They will have to sit out remaining match suspensions when the finals begin on June 8 .
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