Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But chemistry has to give way to physics . |
| 2 | Efficiency of operations has to give way to inventiveness and creativity . |
| 3 | But they have increasingly had to cede ground to government and to ‘ administrators ’ over issues of policy and resource allocation . |
| 4 | We have the luxury of course of having to go face to face anyway . |
| 5 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 6 | The ambivalent attitude of schools towards boxing guarantees that many youths , even those encouraged by teachers in the sport , will have to seek access to boxing facilities elsewhere . |
| 7 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |
| 8 | Delegation of management responsibilities will be needed : ( 1 ) to avoid having to take day to day problems to full partners ' meetings for decision ; ( 2 ) to free individual partners from onerous administrative tasks so as to allow them to concentrate on fee earning ; ( 3 ) because it is inherently more efficient . |
| 9 | Would she have to ask Eleanor to lunch , she wondered . |
| 10 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 11 | Following article in the last issue on ‘ returning to work ’ felt that there was another side to the coin and felt she had to put pen to paper to balance out various viewpoints . |
| 12 | To score runs they had to put bat to ball — a realisation which came all too late . |
| 13 | Ellen had to take Jed to casualty to have a cut above his eye stitched , as poor Prune was too upset to do it . |
| 14 | Bigger employers , like the vast Beardmore 's factory at Parkhead , as well as many of the shipyards , employed people who lived within a mile 's radius , but there was large-scale unemployment , and many now had to travel miles to work . |
| 15 | Now that traders no longer have to meet face to face , and can communicate by telephone or computer , the exchange is not so easy to identify . |
| 16 | ‘ We have to open things to discussion . |
| 17 | She misses it on Monday cos she goes to flute , she misses it , she wa- she sees it on Tuesday cos Chris takes Amy to ballet , she was , she misses it on Wednesday cos she goes skiing , she misses it on Thursday because we have to take Amy to uhum Brownies , she misses it on Friday cos of Amy 's swimming . |