Example sentences of "are having [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls are having to use the public lavatory on the corner and they do n't like it . ’ |
| 2 | It is evident , however , that the police are overstretched and are having to fight the rising tide of car crime with insufficient officers and with one hand tied behind their backs . |
| 3 | It is not so much that those buyers who actually consume the Qm units are having to pay the higher price Pm for them , since the higher price represents the value to them of the marginal unit bought . |
| 4 | ‘ Rescuers are having to walk the last two or three miles carrying all their equipment . ’ |
| 5 | Hollywood filmmakers have become so slavishly dependent on old movies for their narratives that more and more new movies are having to assume the textural trappings of the past . |