Example sentences of "they have [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will they have to pay twenty pounds for each television that they have ? |
| 2 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 3 | Mm , she worked and she worked night shift as well , you know they had to do alternative shifts , so consequently |
| 4 | Anyway the other morning in the office they said they had to do seven days a week but no extra pay . |
| 5 | To reach that goal , they had to answer certain questions . |
| 6 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 7 | They had to wait 20 minutes for a train to take them back the way they 'd just come from , then hire cabs to return to the Five Ways area . |
| 8 | Er and of course they had to use these crocodiles er down the coast er where the Germans were holding out er at and Dunkirk you see . |
| 9 | ALDWYCH Group staff set off on a treasure hunt — only to find they had to visit 15 pubs en route ! |
| 10 | The children in this experiment were pre-trained on a motor task ( they had to push different levers in response to two stimuli , the letters ‘ b ’ and ‘ d ’ ) before being tested on a verbal paired-associate task involving these stimuli . |
| 11 | Editors still had to submit their material for inspection ( after it had been printed , but before it was distributed ) ; they could be penalized both by indictment in the courts and by direct action on the part of the Minister of Internal Affairs ; and they had to lodge monetary bonds with the authorities to facilitate the payment of fines if the government moved against them . |
| 12 | A huge party from the City Chambers arrived without reservations and they had to shove three tables together , and right after that , in came fourteen Japanese tourists . |
| 13 | The AFPFL did not get things all their way : they had to accept six seats on the new Council ( no better than Dorman-Smith had offered the previous year ) . |
| 14 | From Asmar 's reports , I knew that some of them were into arms trafficking as well as dope and that meant they had to have close ties with Syrian-supported terrorist groups like the PFLP — GC . |
| 15 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 16 | While Folly was coming uncomfortably to terms with the fact that the reason they had to avoid built-up areas was to avoid too much carnage if they fell out of the sky , Luke turned to the man in the overalls , who was waiting respectfully for them to finish talking . |
| 17 | Cross-sectionally they had to show high scores for schizophrenic symptomatology on standard psychiatric ratings , and retrospective measurement of treatment resistance was carried out using case histories to look at past failure on different neuroleptic regimes . |
| 18 | However , it was obvious that if they wished to attack moored shipping , they had to find suitable boats from which to do so . |
| 19 | They often needed money above and beyond their budget ( though sometimes not much ) — because usually their budget was for the routine things they were doing , and if they wanted to do something novel , they had to find extra funds . |
| 20 | Consequently , they had to drop concrete piles 8 metres into the soil to provide a foundation . |
| 21 | They had to pass idle days of waiting that stretched ahead to an eternity of weeks in August . |
| 22 | ‘ They must know why their husbands and fathers were away so long — and why they had to face such dangers . ’ |
| 23 | So as a result of that because it 's been erm changed in the nineteenth century the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties , architectural historians who we who were faced with a real problem with York cos York had something like fifty medieval churches and erm er about thirty of them surviving into into the twentieth century , erm and they had to make some decisions about which ones to preserve and which ones to let go . |
| 24 | This would show how well the catapult worked and if they had to make any adjustments in their aim . |
| 25 | Des said they had to climb sheer cliffs with their faces blacked and a knife between their teeth . |
| 26 | In the show , set in a California motel , they had to age twenty-five years , which meant six complete changes of costume , hairstyle and make-up . |
| 27 | ‘ You see , two centuries ago they had electricity — but in order to make it they had to burn non-renewable resources and endanger people with fission systems . |
| 28 | Well to be quite honest I think the reason she wanted it in Norwich was cos Glasgow 're over-loaded as it was I think and they had to learn new skills and staff support and therefore it might not be a good idea to have them as well |
| 29 | Despite their expertise in such field craft , though , there was a limit to the area the Australians could control , and they had to send more men south to protect their supply line from the coast . |
| 30 | If the Romans wanted systematic information about the Celtic lands and institutions they had to recruit Greek scholars . |