Example sentences of "having [verb] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I write with regard to your order for the above tape , as I am unable to trace having received a reply to my letter to you of 14 February last . |
| 2 | He would go to bed with a small satisfaction at having given a lift to the Rector 's son . |
| 3 | Instead of having to cancel a trip to the Blue Mountains , she 'd had to put off a trip to the Blue Danube . |
| 4 | For a government having to establish a guide to the existing extent of economic inequality and some principles as to when inequality shades to poverty and becomes a policy problem , there is the question of what policy instrument to use . |
| 5 | Even having made a commitment to the climb , the option of retreat is always open if you sense the temperature is too high or the snow conditions dangerous . |
| 6 | the extent to which the school as a whole had felt threatened by having to submit a report to the LEA . |
| 7 | Labour Secretary Elizabeth Dole , whose mediation was credited by both sides with having brought a resolution to the dispute , described the outcome of the vote as " a joyous day for everyone " . |
| 8 | EC monitors had extended their activities to Hungary to monitor compliance with the arms embargo on Yugoslavia , having signed a protocol to this effect with Hungary on Jan. 16 . |
| 9 | Although developers will in future be able to go to X/Open Co Ltd for Motif specifications without having to pay a royalty to the Software Foundation , few , given the associated development costs and resources , are likely to choose this option — most , the Software Foundation hopes , will pick up its COSEied-up implementation of Motif . |
| 10 | You will , in theory , be able to walk into a dealer 's showroom and drive away a road-ready car without even having to take a spanner to it . |
| 11 | One way of never having to become a hostage to the tolerance of a credit-giving retailer , the patience of a money-lender , the goodwill of a pawnbroker , to surrender to the sorrow of exile or the safety of sanctuary , was to emulate Thomas Creevey of whom Charles Greville wrote in his journal in 1829 : |
| 12 | Some parents have even had the anguish of having to commit a child to a mental hospital for its own safety . |