Example sentences of "have have [to-vb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just in recent weeks we have had public reports of a cardiologist who has had to turn seriously ill patients away because of the budget system — I am telling the truth about the health — |
| 2 | In her short career keep-fit fanatic Lesley has had to spend nearly nine months off duty recovering from her injuries . |
| 3 | As Richards pointed out , the fact that the history of sexuality has had to wait so long to be written shows the strength of the taboos we have inherited . |
| 4 | She has had to work really hard to maintain herself in recent times . |
| 5 | ‘ The Chancellor has had to face very difficult economic circumstances both abroad , which affects us , and at home , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Moreover the pace of technological change has increased steadily during the latter half of the twentieth century so that the farm worker in turn has had to become more adaptable to successive new innovations . |
| 7 | Not realising what had been going on , she 'd failed to understand why he 'd had to spend so many nights in the penthouse suite of his office . |
| 8 | Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front . |
| 9 | A full survey even of German theology in that period would have had to mention very many more , and to bring out a far wider range of approaches and issues ; but we have attended particularly to those whose legacy did most to shape the background to more recent thought . |
| 10 | We could have had to pay as much as £10,000 . ’ |
| 11 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 12 | I loved your christmas centrefold but I was a little concerned that Pippin and PJ might have had to work very hard to get that shot . |
| 13 | Through her time of growing up , Miranda had had to talk so loud to interrupt the brawling , crying , canoodling jag that was her parent 's marriage , to entertain so insistently in order to divert them from the partying , bickering , kiss-and-make-up affair that absorbed them totally , that she had become as deaf to tremors and to nuances as her former games mistress shouting ‘ Bombs Coming Over ’ or ‘ Scrub the Decks ’ through a megaphone in the gym at the dim convent Miranda had been sent to for those three years of her childhood when the family had been in funds . |
| 14 | But the Liberal Democrats protested that their front bench spokesman had had to wait nearly five hours to be called by the Speaker instead of being called at the start of the debate like the Government and Opposition . |
| 15 | But even that last saving grace of their relationship had begun to collapse when she had had to spend so much of her time down in Devon , looking after her father and his chaotic affairs . |
| 16 | I 've had to work doubly hard to get there . |
| 17 | WHY I 'VE HAD TO THROW AWAY THAT PHOTO |
| 18 | We consider this comment to be without foundation and should point out that as a condition of the land being used as a permanent site for our mobile home , we have had to plant over 100 conifers , together with shrubs and rose bushes . |
| 19 | ‘ The county council have had to re-tender virtually all services in the Liss , area , and so people , as always with competitive tendering must be prepared for some changes tot he operators and timetables , ’ said Mr. Clark . |
| 20 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , for many years within the referral area of the Plymouth eye infirmary , people have had to wait excessively long periods not only for an initial eye examination but for subsequent treatment ? |
| 21 | Booksellers in particular have had to undertake very large mailing operations , and many have achieved no more than 30% response rate so far . |
| 22 | Both employers and contractors have had to become more aware of the detailed provisions of contracts , and the liabilities or benefits they confer . |
| 23 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 24 | ‘ For the third year running , we have been unable to build a single house , yet in that period we have had to re-house nearly 2,000 homeless families . ’ |
| 25 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 26 | Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards . |
| 27 | It is said that Rundell 's had to satisfy so many orders at this time that Storr & Co. was obliged to work , in the way of dinner services , centre-pieces , and other ceremonial and domestic plate , some ten thousand ounces of silver a month . |