Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] had [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potter says this approach has been satisfactory , although he would not say how many times the company had used it , but Psion has never had to take a case to court . |
| 2 | Whitehall has also had to find office space and officials to staff the new ministries promised by both parties . |
| 3 | Neil Murray has often had to come into bands and reproduce another player 's bass part , or even their bass sound … |
| 4 | Intelsat has already had to stretch the lives of six older satellites over the Pacific Ocean and last summer repositioned a satellite over Indonesia to increase capacity . |
| 5 | Remarkably , Mr McGovern has never had to sell equity in his firm to outside investors , though he has given away nearly 30% to motivate employees . |
| 6 | ‘ The only blessing about my absence from the side recently is that owner Sam Hammam has not had to pay me my goal bonuses ! ’ |
| 7 | Kohl had always had to cope with the personal problem of appearing lacklustre and undynamic , and in 1988 even close colleagues doubted whether he could remain as Chancellor for long . |
| 8 | But Pompey have not had to fend off a serious inquiry about him for two years . |
| 9 | So ESA has recently had to consent to launch Exosat on one of NASA 's Delta rockets — an option it could have taken in the early 1970s which would have allowed a launch in 1977 . |
| 10 | Terence has already had to expand his business to cope with demand , and he 's hoping to take on even more workers soon . |
| 11 | Sweden had recently had to abandon workfare because , as unemployment had risen , it had become too costly to administer . |
| 12 | At that point Jennifer had just had to give up her own job as she had found it impossible to continue nursing and Rachel could clearly remember the night she 'd found her sister severely depressed about her future . |
| 13 | The success of such authors has probably contributed to the view that the inspiration for postmodernism in Britain has often had to come from foreign models rather than a native tradition of this form of writing , or even much of a disposition towards it . |
| 14 | Iran has even had to import heating oil from the United States in recent months . |
| 15 | If Mr. Bonanza had n't had to change his plans that poor girl would be alive right now . ’ |
| 16 | In fact , this was the only spectacle which Mrs Goreng had not had to contrive for the benefit of her guests . |
| 17 | Middlesex have twice had to carpet Ramprakash this season after astonishing flare-ups and another incident went unpunished . |
| 18 | France and Italy have also had to cope with falling output , and Germany , still struggling with the costs of reunification , has now suffered three successive quarters of declining GDP . |
| 19 | Sun , which has refused to license Windows 3.1 from Microsoft has literally had to re-invent Windows from scratch . |
| 20 | As it turned out , George had not had to stir up the matter of Miss Tuckey himself . |
| 21 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 22 | Not that that was the end of it — NCR had simply had to open up opportunities for people lower down the ladder to develop , backed up by formal systems of career planning , appraisal and psychometric testing to mine the required resource . |
| 23 | A Darlington couple paid over £2,000 to Mr Round last October for a kitchen that was never delivered ; Alan Dodsworth has since had to borrow from his father to get the job done by another contractor . |
| 24 | Thank God we have n't been bombed , and Theresa has n't had to put that gas mask on the baby . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's not the sort of work Super Mario has ever had to do , but I feel a little more patriotic about this than any of my other jobs , ’ he says . |
| 26 | And although he has seen some strange sights down the Big Apple 's drains , the real-life Mario has never had to fight off fire-breathing dragons or deadly piranha flowers . |
| 27 | The people of Somalia have already had to wait too long . |
| 28 | Mary Harrison has unfortunately had to give up her much-appreciated work in the Swarfham area ; her husband 's promotion means that they must move to Peterborough . |
| 29 | For Dancing Through The Dark , Russell has also had to wear his composer 's hat , scoring five new songs and all the background music . |