Example sentences of "have to compete [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He warns : ‘ Birmingham has to compete with outlying attractions . |
| 2 | Now London has to compete with New York and Tokyo . |
| 3 | Edinburgh has to compete with London ( 54 hours ) , the large provincial towns ( 56 hours ) , and Holland and Germany ( 60 hours ) " . |
| 4 | First , social policy expenditure has to compete with other public expenditure dedicated to the defence of the realm . |
| 5 | Gillit has to compete with fellow countrymen Rijkaard and Van Basten , plus Papin , Savicevic and Boban for one of the three permitted places open to non-Italians . |
| 6 | McEniff 's zeal for football has not subsided in later years , but it now has to compete with two other compelling passions , his family and his business . |
| 7 | But now that football has to compete with so many other attractions , good results and big names are demanded as the price of continued loyalty . |
| 8 | And the more success it has , the more self-esteem it gains , and the more confidence it has to compete against others , or even the environment . |
| 9 | It often has to compete against church bells or , increasingly , the chatter of the congregation . |
| 10 | Against this background , Scotch Whisky has to compete against strong and growing competition from an increasingly wide range of drinks products . |
| 11 | She has never had to compete with private collectors for company archives and hopes she never has to . |
| 12 | Within the spirits category , Scotch Whisky has had to compete with a wider range of heavily marketed white spirits . |
| 13 | Elsewhere socialist parties have had to compete in multiparty and proportional electoral systems and usually share power in government . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ It 's incredible when you consider that my team of part-time lads have had to compete against a side that is full-time . |
| 15 | Any BNFL output would have to compete on commercial grounds . |
| 16 | Bidders would be guaranteed a public subsidy , but would have to compete on price and quality . |
| 17 | UK pork and other meat will then have to compete with very cheap lamb |
| 18 | UK pork , and other meats , will then have to compete with very cheap lamb . |
| 19 | A High Street clothes shop , for example , may not only have to compete with another clothes retailer in that street , but also with the large department store in the town centre , plus mail order companies . |
| 20 | A ‘ corner ’ shop selling food and other everyday items may have to compete with both larger and smaller retailers — the supermarket or out-of-town hypermarket on the one hand , the local market stall on the other . |
| 21 | When the females were promiscuous , the sperm of each male would have to compete with those of other males , and the male producing the most sperm was most likely to generate offspring . |
| 22 | They did n't have to live with this goddess , they did n't have to compete with the legend . |
| 23 | Behind the grille it is usually quieter than outside ( where you are ) , and the muffled voice may have to compete with loud background noise ; in addition the speaker 's face often can not be seen clearly . |
| 24 | But the Gunners will have to compete with his former club Nottingham Forest and big-spending Blackburn Rovers . |
| 25 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 26 | How can we help poor women to avoid neural tube defects when the appropriate supplements , even when they become available , are not going to be prescribable on FP10s but will have to compete with the rest of the family 's needs ? |
| 27 | But it says with it has a limited budget and Touchdown will have to compete with other deserving projects . |
| 28 | We should n't have to compete with anyone . |
| 29 | For too long , inflights coasted along in a crappy state for several reasons : first , the implicit assumption that if you wanted your duty-free goods sold on board then you took an ad in the mag ( so , if you 're making money anyway , why bother to make it good ? ) ; second , the mags did n't even have to compete for ad budgets with proper media , since duty-free is usually handled by a separate division with a separate ad spend ; and last , nobody cares if nobody reads it . |
| 30 | We 'll have to compete for . |