Example sentences of "having [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Now he faces the prospect of having to go to a school more than a hundred miles from his home . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not even my job is worth having to go through a repeat of that ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It can be seen that comparisons between the sub-groups are made much easier if they have been sampled in this way ; there is no problem of having to cope with a preponderance of one group and a dearth of another if stratification has taken place beforehand . |
| 11 | The Financial Times itself , the er trading profit was up ten percent , despite having to cope with an advertisement volume which is now higher than during the er seventy four recession . |
| 12 | It was difficult enough to find an appropriate way of treating Churchill 's funeral without having to cope with an actor who felt moved to speak about it on behalf of the youth of Britain . |
| 13 | We are all familiar with quantative overload ( too much to do in too little time ) , but for those involved in credit there is also the stress caused by having to cope with an environment where , very often , the credit function is not understood and usually underfunded . |
| 14 | Married to a sickly wife , then having to cope as a widower with a daughter who suffered fits frequently , finding work difficult to obtain , Thomas Titford must have felt he had enough crosses to bear for one lifetime . |
| 15 | POOR Elizabeth Harris moans about being married to two millionaire stars , the late Rex Harrison and Richard Harris , and then to having to work for a living ! |
| 16 | My eyes jaded by having to work for a living , are , after their rest , getting again into focus and my brain , having taken a long sabbatical , has shifted itself , with extreme bad grace , into gear . |
| 17 | This , too , has made an enormous difference — no longer having to work in a studio . |
| 18 | Jesus , love is … having to stand in a sulphur plume ? |
| 19 | Barbara Cartland on not attending the funeral of her son-in-law Earl Spencer due to having to appear on a chat show |
| 20 | The issue is not one of having to choose between a partner and a sport or hobby , but it may well be the choice between a partner and the complete freedom to please oneself . |
| 21 | It will depend on the particular circumstances of each case as to whether a solicitor who has suffered financial loss as a result of having to comply with an undertaking given in the course of his acting for a client can look to the latter for reimbursement . |
| 22 | He had been dreading having to look for a place for lunch . |
| 23 | So it 's nought , point , six , two , so for our thirty seven minutes it 's , four point six , two , there we are look , but the thing is you can now do it without having to look at a scale |
| 24 | It may mean having to park in a car park , for example , rather than in a busy street where there are a lot of people passing by . |
| 25 | A surprising number of inexperienced pilots have n't really thought about how they would tackle having to land in a field . |
| 26 | Is n't there enough guilt around without having to slave like a martyr to lose weight ? ’ |
| 27 | The board is also having to readvertise for a replacement to Dr Forwell after Mr Fyfe insisted that he must have a say in the appointment . |
| 28 | Any-way in September 1990 I decided to further my career in Horticulture and started a college course full time at Houghall College , County Durham , which meant having to live on a Educational-grant My expenses weekly are £29 rent , bus fares to college £25 , HP £10 , electric £5 total £69 weekly this is without food . |
| 29 | They complain about having to live in a village for three generations before winning social acceptance or ruefully conclude that ‘ the first fifty years are the worst ’ . |
| 30 | God might , in creating the world , have put the sort of distance between Himself and ourselves that involves our having to live in an environment within which , until the day that we die , there is evidence both for and against His existence . |