Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has to go without a hitch . ’ |
| 2 | The law says that British Coal has to go through a procedure of consultation before it can close pits . |
| 3 | If a report has to go through a number of drafts , it is an excellent way of enabling changes to be made quickly and without extensive retyping . |
| 4 | More work has to go into a science degree than an arts degree … |
| 5 | In each case , it has to go into a sail pocket and , to avoid wear through abrasion , the rod should have cappings or a Dacron polyester tape reinforcement at each end , or the fabric will soon become pierced . |
| 6 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 7 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the paradox is that a small , cheapish amp still has to sound like a beast , whilst remaining tame and housetrained in all other respects . |
| 9 | Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory . |
| 10 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 11 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 12 | What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week . |
| 13 | The details of this task are entrusted to the Future Legislation Committee of the Cabinet which has to cope with a flood of requests from the various Departments of State who all wish to have their proposals included . |
| 14 | … the construction of a character has to pass through a death , necessary to the structuring of the subject as subject of utterance , and for his insertion into the circuit of signifiers , I mean the narration . |
| 15 | This means that the light , instead of being granted an unrestricted passage to the photocells , has to pass through a forest of connecting wires , pre-sumably suffering at least some attenuation and distortion ( actually probably not much but , still , it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer ! ) . |
| 16 | While new organizations may possess a strong commitment to a new policy , and may have powers that enable it to bring together the resources for its implementation that were not possessed by any single previous organization , it still has to relate to a world in which other agencies have a great deal of power to influence its success . |
| 17 | Within a couple of years , non-standardization had claimed another victim ; but this time , the recorded legacy includes records which we can not play back electronically , because the mechanism has to work with a clockwork motor . |
| 18 | Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying . |
| 19 | The game can be played in a more limited form in the little bowl-type individual urinals which are more fashionable these days , but Jamie has never tried this himself , being so short that if he is to use one of those he has to stand about a metre back from it and lob his waste water in . |
| 20 | P O A by the way , another thing I 'm thinking of doing is saying , if you want a net price enter in there , it has to come through a manager or |
| 21 | With so few black professionals in post , most pressure for anti-racist reforms has to come from a variety of sources , from white politicians or administrators or black pressure groups working in particular localities in conjunction with anti-racist teachers . |
| 22 | I do not see Hoffman 's hesitancies of speech , his throatbound voice that has to struggle past a colony of frogs , his eyes that crouch nervously in their sockets , as a proof of consequential ratiocination going on inside his head . |
| 23 | Writing also has to conform to an idea . |
| 24 | If a visitor or medical practitioner has to talk to a resident through you , make sure you consult them and do n't answer for them . |
| 25 | To achieve this position a chant leader has to engage in a form of ‘ hazarding ’ of a particularly subtle kind . |
| 26 | Since a living room is literally the room for general living it often has to serve as a study , playroom and dining room as well and still manage to reflect your tastes and be a comfortable extension of your personality — or personalities . |
| 27 | And in order to achieve this end , the spirit has to dwell within a number of different entities . |
| 28 | Inevitably , that Eighties concept of revivalism has to surface in a piece like this , yet how can we pin down a disco revival ? |
| 29 | It is impossible to watch the towplane and the ground ahead during the climb out so that in the event of a launch failure the glider pilot has to look for a field , whereas in the normal tow position he has a good view of the fields ahead all the time . |
| 30 | If Diana has to walk through a ward with twenty beds in it , she will stop and talk to the occupant of each and every one , and the time keepers just have to get ulcers . |