Example sentences of "having [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries . |
| 2 | Such untimely celebrity death provides our nice clean ending and saves us having to contend with the natural processes of ageing and decay , for some reason considered more horrific and obscene than going out with a bang . |
| 3 | Similarly , Message Queue Interface should improve the efficiency with which loosely coupled systems work : travel agents , for example should be able to request flight information from one system and get straight on filling in other details without having to wait for the remote system to respond . |
| 4 | But having to wait until the 80th minute to score , is n't good in my books . |
| 5 | Any emergencies can now be dealt with without having to wait until the next day . |
| 6 | One of the most enduring memories is of the Labour Government having to go to the International Monetary Fund , ‘ cap in hand ’ , to ask for a loan to prop up the UK 's sagging economy . |
| 7 | Claydon has made no secret of the fact that his immediate goal is to win enough to secure a Tour Card for 1990 without having to go to the Qualifying School at La Manga . |
| 8 | I dread having to go through the sympathetic ear act , even when it 's merited . |
| 9 | You may be better advised to start again , possibly finding your candidates by a different method , than risk the problems of engaging an inadequate candidate and being faced with all the disruption of having to go through the whole process at a later stage anyway . |
| 10 | Another good way of practising the start without having to go through the exhausting rig recovery is to sail along and lower yourself into the water . |
| 11 | But on the other hand it 's just another part of the learning curve that these lads are having to go through the hard way — in international rugby rather than before they reach that level . |
| 12 | Instead of having to go through the hoary old DOS prompt when you boot up , you 'll go straight into Windows . |
| 13 | Apart from having to go over the unpleasant details of Froggy 's death yet again , I had a nasty feeling that Inspector Drew 's bright and suspicious eyes masked darker ideas about my role in Froggy 's murder . |
| 14 | If , later on , you want to change the data in the table , you can do it in your document without having to go near the original spreadsheet . |
| 15 | 3 It hopes to allow , and induce , students to work at the pace best suited to them as individuals , rather than having to proceed at the standard class rate . |
| 16 | Now in the wake of his service there , having to cope with the vivid reminders of how worth it it was and how tragic a loss of life of Vietnamese … |
| 17 | Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her . |
| 18 | Alan Beith , the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman , said : ‘ This Budget is the bill taxpayers are having to meet for the catastrophic mismanagement of the economy under the Conservatives . |
| 19 | Then Stren was in front of them , his sword appearing to materialise an inch from their throats without having to pass through the intervening air . |
| 20 | In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle . |
| 21 | Borgman ( 1982 ) in a later article added that the older child ‘ who keeps in touch does not experience the guilt of having to choose between the adoptive and biological parents ’ ( p. 218 ) . |
| 22 | In 1935 a Mr Cole of Middlesbrough complained to the Sea Fish Commission that they were still having to sell at the pre-war prices of a halfpenny fish and a ha'porth of chips . |
| 23 | I would like you to watch me interview him ’ — immediately lets the class off the hook of having to participate in the normal way . |
| 24 | Yes we could do so it would be a matter of judgement for the er er for the Home Secretary how far to take it and he would have to balance the likelihood of er other countries all ratifying and the inconvenience to those taking part in the election here er if er there is some uncertainty to the end and maybe having to revert to the current constituencies , er I hope and expect that these matters will be settled in the next few weeks . |
| 25 | well , I do n't know whether that man over there is cleaning the windows or whether he 's having to look at the double glazing again |
| 26 | TENNIS champ John McEnroe yesterday slammed having to bow to the Royal box at Wimbledon . |
| 27 | Her punishment is having to bow to the inevitable . |
| 28 | The news comes as BA is still licking its wounds from having to apologise for the dirty tricks campaign conducted against its smaller rival , Virgin Atlantic , and the early retiral of its former chairman , Lord King . |
| 29 | We then have the composite view that an effect is necessitated by a causal circumstance and , furthermore , is related to a so-called sufficient condition in the way described , having to do with the usual background . |
| 30 | If a given thing x is related to a given thing y , it is argued , this must be seen as having to do with the intrinsic nature of x , and the intrinsic nature of x can , in the final analysis , be fully understood only as a feature of the whole to which it and everything else belongs . |