Example sentences of "have have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is a trick in making privatisations a success , something that the UK government has had to learn the hard way , and it seems that the Turks have yet to learn it : Reuter reports from Istanbul that the public offer of 20% of the shares in Netas Northern Electric Telekomunikasyon AS was undersubscribed , suggesting that the reason was that the maximum for which any one buyer could subscribe was 5,000 shares , costing the equivalent of $4,450 , which is thought to have put off institutional and foreign buyers . |
| 2 | Mark , 28 , of Redcar , a former Darlington and Stockton Times reporter part of The Northern Echo group of newspapers has had to master the intricate stereo sound desk . |
| 3 | In addition , she has had to face the emotional stress of the last 15 months . |
| 4 | But in real life she has had to make the difficult transition from child to adult star . |
| 5 | Those who delight in complexities and wish to pursue the matter further will find a number of adequate textbooks and sources of information which will be pointed out with fiendish delight by any qualified librarian , since he has had to run the whole gamut in preparing for his examinations . |
| 6 | Differentiated curricula and the social structure are matched on very firm foundations : by building on these foundations comprehensive reorganization has had to accept the antecedent structures which contradict its stated ideal . [ … ] |
| 7 | But the 40-year-old left-arm spinner from the wine-producing region of Stellenbosch outside Cape Town , has had to fight the deep prejudices of his fellow Cape coloureds , rather than whites , to achieve his ambitions . |
| 8 | But 5 year old Amy Harding would have found the trauma of having a surgical collar even worse if she 'd had to make the long trip to Gloucester . |
| 9 | It would have been a different story if they 'd had to find the key money for the flat themselves . |
| 10 | You may have had to move the mounting screw pillars to new locations and now is the time you discover if you are correct . |
| 11 | So alone and unroped he must have had to tackle the daunting vertical crack above , knowing he was fully committed . |
| 12 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 13 | Those who studied the parties ' platforms carefully would have had to relate the Labour Party 's generally stronger commitment to universal social security policies to the Conservatives ' specific pledge . |
| 14 | However , a statement by the Auditor General suggested that both the President and the Finance Minister would have had to sign the final audit report of the government fund for " secret services " which was budgeted at R380,000,000 for the current year . |
| 15 | For the Tories to have any credibility as trustees of the environment they would have to have to change the whole basis of their philosophy . |
| 16 | Heavily in debt to certain members of his nobility and to routier captains , and let down by his Castilian ally , he had had to seek the financial resources with which to pay for his Spanish expedition . |
| 17 | It was in the 2nd round of the FA Cup in December 1937 when the Palace had had to make the long trip to Accrington on one of the rare times when the draw for this round was not made on a geographical basis . |
| 18 | I calculated that if Charlie 's train had arrived at King 's Cross on time that morning , he should have already reached Chelsea by now , even if he had had to cover the entire journey on foot . |
| 19 | ONCE again we 've had to witness the horrifying sight of Christmas carnage on the roads because a few stupid people fly in the face of common sense and drive like lunatics whatever the conditions . |
| 20 | I 've been in and out of places , I 've had to learn the hard way . |
| 21 | We 've had to underpin the adjoining party wall . |
| 22 | In order to maintain efficiency , we have had to close the surplus production capacity . |
| 23 | Another problem that has beset the RMCs is that , instead of being financed from special , earmarked central or regional funds , they have had to derive the necessary resources from the parent institutions . |
| 24 | That is why Greenpeace have had to take the moral initiative … |
| 25 | The president is not free to choose , to start wars wherever he feels like it , the president is not free to make agreements with any country he feels like making it with and some presidents have had to learn the hard way . |
| 26 | Many of course have come to that conclusion before , and those who have tried to reach a naturalistic morality which transcends it have had to read the historical record , or read beyond the historical record , in ways which seek to reveal a partly hidden human nature which is waiting to be realized or perfected . |
| 27 | The greater the length of time that they have had to consider the full implications of what was proposed at Maastricht , the stronger have been their reservations . |
| 28 | Apart from adding a gloss to the section , the courts have had to interpret the actual wording . |
| 29 | But whatever their theoretical standpoint , in practice British feminists have had to confront the near monopoly position of the NHS as a provider of services and its role as a massive employer of female labour . |
| 30 | Other occupations have adopted the professional rhetoric and even if they have done so in order to enhance their status and monopoly or guild power , they have had to accept the concomitant constraints on self-interested behaviour . |