Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The committee has to go on record and declare that a drastic reduction in these resources will place the parish structure of the Kirk in jeopardy and seriously damage its mission to the people of Scotland . ’ |
| 2 | ( p7 ) If the drafter has to choose between clarity and legal accuracy , clarity must be sacrificed , but that should rarely be necessary . |
| 3 | The fact that number is a grammatical category in English means that an English speaker or writer who uses a noun such as student or child has to choose between singular and plural . |
| 4 | Eliot comes across as the sad man who sees double , as a living embodiment of the proposition that the double has to do with pain and with relief from pain , with the search , in such circumstances , for someone other . |
| 5 | As a jailbird he knows he is no different to the cons he has to live with night and day — reputations mean nothing here . |
| 6 | We need , therefore , to consider next what have been the most important practical issues , in the closing decades of the twentieth century , which political sociology has to represent in thought and embody in its explanatory or interpretive schemes . |
| 7 | The Second Law of Thermodynamics thus constrains the designer of engines ; he wants high efficiency but he also has to think about speed and price , and a whole range of possible designs might suit a particular case : the law does not require a unique solution . |
| 8 | But if that is our conclusion , then we miss perhaps the most profound contribution this story has to make to theology and to faith . |
| 9 | Wolfgang Fischer : One has to distinguish between general and specific reasons . |
| 10 | Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth . |
| 11 | ‘ People who hang on to their land and property even if it kills them , so we 've never had to worry about money and that 's why we 're such nice people . ’ |
| 12 | Elsewhere socialist parties have had to compete in multiparty and proportional electoral systems and usually share power in government . |
| 13 | But they had had to operate without anaesthetic and with only limited supplies . |
| 14 | Many companies have already found that to maintain commercial confidentiality they have had to register for VAT and appoint agents in other member states just to comply with the new reporting regime . |
| 15 | Proportionally , quite a lot of black teenagers become pregnant too , and they may well have to contend with racism and discrimination in many areas of their lives . |
| 16 | Changing dates , numbers travelling or holiday type are major changes which we may have to treat as cancellation and subsequent re-booking . |
| 17 | If I could n't find it , I would have to wait for morning and steer north by my watch and the sun . |
| 18 | If none of them proved correct they would have to wait until dawn and call out a helicopter , by which time it would probably be too late . |
| 19 | He 'll have to go without pay and I told him there and then . |
| 20 | I 'd have to go to Parliament and bribe them to pass a law specially for my divorce . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 22 | Mark Garner , executive consultant with Red Hot Television 's parent company , Continental Television , said : ‘ We are delighted this will have to go to court and we will be there at the earliest opportunity . ’ |
| 23 | Things like erm oh yeah , could yo could you tell Scott that er , he does n't have to go to church and pray any more , something like that ! |
| 24 | and his , and his friends and that yeah and erm so we 're all , we do n't have to go to supper and we 're getting , we 're all getting |
| 25 | What I what I 'd really hope for is to be able to do it without having to go to college and just do it by experience but that 's I 'd have to be awful awful good . |
| 26 | The bigger the event , the harder you will have to work at crowd-pulling and the earlier you will have to start to build up the interest . |
| 27 | He was right , I did have to stand on tiptoe and even then I could hardly reach . |
| 28 | A Chinese or Japanese speaker or writer does not have to choose between singular and plural , unless the context demands that this information be made explicit . |
| 29 | Hamadan became equally confident they could do so when the CIA offered them both ‘ asset ’ status , which meant virtual immunity from prosecution or the risk of ever having to surface in court and testify as witnesses . |
| 30 | Treasury ideas are bound to be different , and should have to do with choice and with making markets work . |