Example sentences of "has [to-vb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They cover a lot of ground so the designated flight area has to include very generous margins of up to an extra 50% over the line lengths and , most important , this area has to be clear of all spectators and especially other kites .
2 The jet has a high bottom line , the operator has to find as much work for it as he can to spread its costs and make a profitable .
3 ‘ Anything going in or out of the valley has to pass along this road . ’
4 She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day .
5 This has to meet fairly stringent demands , and the main criteria are :
6 This means that , in the case of a signal of mains frequency , 50 Hz , for which the wavelength is = 6000 km in air , the line has to exceed around 60 km in length before its distributed nature needs to be taken into account .
7 This implies of course that the infinitive event 's realization by the subject has to constitute sufficiently significant information about the referent which the latter refers to for the sentence to be worth uttering .
8 One has to do so much talking , and I do n't like talking .
9 In choosing , Alsys has to weigh up two objectives : which technology has greater market share and is more attractive to third parties and which technology will be the standard internally at Thomson for engineering .
10 Erm it 's obviously right and proper that a local planning authority if it 's releasing green field sites has to justify why those sites should be released .
11 To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what plans he has to intervene where local education authorities fail to take action to reduce surplus school places .
12 When the second parent dies , the family has to share out any money and possessions .
13 At four o'clock each evening the team at the Grid Control Centre has to assess how much gas the entire region will use the following day .
14 Society has to decide how much risk-taking it wishes to encourage and to allow a proper return to risk-taking as an economic cost against accounting profits .
15 The American one has to decide how many members of Congress each state should have .
16 To see the biblical renewal of liturgy successful in Europe , one still has to seek out certain churches .
17 In 1984 in an interview with the Giornale dell'Arte Bonito Oliva observed that ‘ A critic has to have extremely rapid reactions ; his role is to grasp ideas and project them into the future ’ .
18 Local registry offices will also supply copies of certificates if the event was recorded in their district , but they do not provide facilities for consulting indexes and so the genealogist has to have fairly precise information before a successful search for a certificate can be made .
19 To understand this , one has to think along certain lines , about what it means to talk of a sensation being in a certain part of one 's body .
20 I said that to understand this difficulty one has to think along certain lines .
21 Taking preservatives out is easy , but it means that everyone in food handling — producers , distributors , retailers , caterers and consumers — has to pay even more attention to food hygiene .
22 It 's aim is to simplify vendors ' programmes , so that a customer has to pay only one bill .
23 The wedding industry has to get as much cash as possible out of the remaining couples who choose to tie the knot with the blessing of God and every florist in Britain .
24 ‘ One has to lay down some ground rules for any work of art .
25 The planning authority also has to advertise locally any proposals involving large buildings ( those more than 20 metres high ) , or any ‘ unneighbourly uses ’ — such as a casino , scrap yard , cemetery or slaughterhouse — and put up a notice on the site itself .
26 For him , critical writing has to take up wider issues than enjoyment of a picture or a sculpture .
27 It has to take up private time — and at home .
28 Betty uses the scheme once a week , although she is unhappy about the fact that she has to spend so much time getting the equipment ready .
29 And to be really frank , one has to say when those kind of things come out in the open one has to say has the church got its priorities right ?
30 In brief , he has to step back two generations and undergo what one may call a painful cultural circumcision ( God 's Lively People , Fontana , 1971 ) .
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