Example sentences of "we have have [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The response is coming through slowly , but we 've had to take a lot of initiatives on our own and we are hoping that others will come and support and back these initiatives . |
| 3 | So we 've had to do a lot of work ourselves , including researching carefully that we are doing something worthwhile . ’ |
| 4 | We 've had to make a million pounds savings this last year . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
| 6 | we 've had to dig a little bit out |
| 7 | Once we 'd decided to have a baby we had had to find a Father . |
| 8 | We have had to spend a disproportionate amount of money on marketing and selling . ’ |
| 9 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 10 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 11 | ‘ Unfortunately we have had to disappoint a large number of capable girls , causing the governors a great deal of anguish . |
| 12 | Because the schools are up to 65 miles away , we have had to give a lot of thought to the development of distance learning materials . |
| 13 | On many occasions we have increased the sensitivity of our measurements or made a new class of observations , only to discover new phenomena that were not predicted by the existing theory , and to account for these we have had to develop a more advanced theory . |
| 14 | ‘ We are writing to you to ask for your support in our battle for men , ’ ‘ For too long now , we have had to endure an overly-sensitive onslaught from the feminists . |