Example sentences of "of having [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford , after the War and after national service and in spite of the minor irritation of having to carry into Hall private rations of butter and sugar , was a place of freedom . |
| 2 | There are also connotations , however , of freedom from fear , freedom from the boredom of having to deal with work for which the learner has no motivation , freedom to move from activity to activity as desired . |
| 3 | Somehow the sight of this touched Ianthe , who had never herself been in the position of having to wait till pay-day . |
| 4 | ‘ And the trapping of having to go on radio stations and saying , ‘ Hi , how are ya doin' ? ’ and all that sort of press … ’ moans Ian . |
| 5 | Shaw was facing the prospect of having to retire from football , after he suffered a serious cruciate injury in only his second game for Conference side Runcorn at the beginning of last season . |
| 6 | Shaw was facing the prospect of having to retire from football , after he suffered a serious cruciate injury in only his second game for Conference side Runcorn at the beginning of last season . |
| 7 | I also welcome Amendment twenty-seven which sets out plans for the appointment by the Secretary of State for members of authorities which will have sanction of having to come before Parliament before accepted and I think that again is extremely important . |
| 8 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 9 | Their low cost means that a secretary can have a computer to herself instead of having to compete for time with many other users from other departments in the company . |