Example sentences of "having [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any petty misdemeanour resulted in the offender having to report to the Corporal of the day with his entrenching tool after evening ‘ appel ’ . |
| 2 | Referring to IBM 's establishment of a PC standard in 1981 , he said that other manufacturers were selling cars without having to invest in the highway . |
| 3 | However , some of the streets are long ( up to 1.5 km ) so that some motorists have expressed frustration at having to drive behind a cycle at cycle speed for some distance . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd better go in anyway or we 'll end up having to sit in the shade for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 5 | Group Captain John Shephard who commanded the wireless intelligence station at Chicksands Priory in Bedfordshire , where many of our intercepts were received , was invited to one such entertainment and reported upon ‘ a performance whose brilliance was undiminished by having to appeal to an audience whose I.Q. was not less than 200 ! ’ |
| 6 | If effective civil and political citizenship were to be enjoyed in Britain , then the citizen must be emancipated from the obsessive secrecy of government and the extraordinarily clumsy device of having to appeal for the protection of his or her rights to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 7 | For example , you may ignore her persistent whining for attention after one constructive attempt to distract her by suggesting a pleasant and diverting activity ( after all , you re having to see to the baby ) . |
| 8 | Does the Minister agree with the view therefore , that nurses that nurses should be given the authority to admit patients to hospital provided there is a bed without having to wait for a decision to be to be made by a doctor ? |
| 9 | Ideally , to be honest I would like a diamorphine maintenance course , but I do n't know if that 's possible these days to pick up a prescription once or twice a week and be able to do it that way instead of having the hassle of having to go on the street . |
| 10 | Now he faces the prospect of having to go to a school more than a hundred miles from his home . |
| 11 | How does it make someone like a woman who has just had an abortion feel having to go to a lavatory to express her grief in tears ? |
| 12 | ‘ He was speaking to himself rather than to me at the time , but I recall Jeff muttering under his breath something about having to go to the mainland soon … ’ |
| 13 | Depositors are issued with cheque books which enable them to spend the money directly without first having to go to the bank and draw the money out in cash . |
| 14 | It 's where to pay to money , and you 're having to go to the bank manager , what would he ask for ? the business plan , and you 'd have to draw that up and do all the and you have to impress the bank manager before he will even consider an overdraft facility , or whatever , a loan . |
| 15 | right we 'll get back here then and , not having to go to the post office now will be a help cos that really is the other end of town in n it ? |
| 16 | And we had erm we , there was a few changes during that time , we used to get troops coming in and occupying the classroom , and we maybe , at the very early days I can remember having to go to the Street School and also the Street Hall which belong that was a church hall . |
| 17 | And the others do n't care either , only Hoomey , because of his Bones having to go to the knacker 's . ’ |
| 18 | Having to go to the end of the road , well it 's daft now . |
| 19 | And Mrs Richmond having to go into the hospital ’ — it seemed to Gilly that there was a long , thoughtful pause before the caseworker went on — ‘ for her nerves . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Can we get to the Cove without having to go into the garden ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 22 | the weeds are coming up and I 'm having to go under the ground cover and get them . |
| 23 | Not even my job is worth having to go through a repeat of that ! ’ |
| 24 | He moved up to the counter with the air of a man who does n't like having to go through a routine once again but is prepared to do so , all right then here 's my card if you insist ! |
| 25 | If you are close , you can appreciate the other 's character without having to go through the anxiety of behaving that way yourself . |
| 26 | It means that , depending on the context , I can communicate something subtly different from what I intended before without us first having to go through the rigmarole of defining new terminology to extend the language . |
| 27 | GCCS made particularly good progress breaking the Japanese naval attaché cipher traffic , both in London and elsewhere in Europe , since many foreign cable companies routed their signals through repeater stations in places like Malta where GCCS could acquire all interesting traffic without having to go through the charade of obtaining a warrant . |
| 28 | Thus a hard-worked journalist could receive a press release by fax , use FAXgrabber to convert the faxed release to text , and then place it into his story without having to go through the process of re-typing much of the information . |
| 29 | Wh when you put people on the patches for the first time because the hormone goes straight into the system , rather than having to go through the gut , |
| 30 | While Corinne had to steel herself to be ruthless when she axed key characters , she was also having to cope with a sense of loss . |