Example sentences of "have [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are on the floor together : the door has to swing to on its own , as it is designed to do , though more for the sake of security than lovers . |
| 2 | The pragmatism of political urgency must be allowed to sully the purity of intellectual thought ; what is needed , at least in the short term , is what Gayatri Spivak has referred to as a kind of ‘ strategic essentialism ’ . |
| 3 | The worst offenders are almost always Councils controlled by extreme left factions engaged in what the present Chairman of the Conservative Party , Christopher Patten , has referred to as ‘ bleeding-stump politics ’ . |
| 4 | Bad harvests , meanwhile , had once again forced wheat up to famine prices , and the ‘ outbreak of peace ’ after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was to herald what C. P. Hill has referred to as ‘ one of the grimmest periods in modern British History ’ . |
| 5 | Learners who live in what Krashen has referred to as ‘ acquisition-rich ’ environments and take advantage of such settings to use their communicative skills in the L2 , also need opportunities to focus on the functional properties of the language and attend to form . |
| 6 | It is what John Triseliotis has referred to as ‘ a family for life , with its network of support systems not only for them but also for their future children ’ . |
| 7 | The period of the 1940s and the 1950s was to produce what Samuel Beer has referred to as the welfare state and the managed economy , or what some commentators have referred to as the period of the social democratic consensus . |
| 8 | Why does the system in Northern Ireland remain isolated with no connection to any other system , with all the technical and economic disadvantages which that entails and which the hon. Member for Antrim , East has referred to on several occasions ? |
| 9 | Well , there 's nothing , as I understand it there is nothing in the Law Society guidelines but there are certainly references in the professional conduct guidelines which Mr has referred to in the course of this report er which referred to the extent of solicitors in the situation . |
| 10 | I need hardly remind you of the many emergencies that Save The Children has responded to in recent years . |
| 11 | After about four to six weeks , when the temperature has dropped to about 4l°C , the heap should be turned , when a further surge of bacterial activity and a second heating will take place , causing further breakdown of the vegetable matter . |
| 12 | Is that what democracy has come to in this country , with the democratically elected Government refusing to listen to the democratically elected Opposition — who will be unable to reveal the flaws in the council tax as we did in the case of the poll tax , and which were soon clear for all to see ? |
| 13 | It 's feared that the death toll in the Cairo earthquake has risen to at least a thousand . |
| 14 | Not very many sub-conversions have yet been done as I understand it and my source of information about the levels of conversion is solely from Mrs , called on behalf of the defendants and her real source of information is simply one family whom she has talked to on the telephone about it , who find the levels conversion of their Nissan Serena perfectly satisfactory for their twenty year old daughter . |
| 15 | According to a game survey recently performed by a group at the Istituto di Zoologia of the University of Rome , Italy 's population of fully wild , feral dogs has exploded to above 80 000 and is fuelled by a pool of perhaps ten times as many stray and free-ranging animals . |
| 16 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 17 | Other items on the agenda for the diocesan synod this week include financial matters and an update on the Decade of Evangelism , looking at where the church has got to in its outreach work . |
| 18 | Subsequent matches depend on where one has got to in the description . |
| 19 | In our example if the assumed regime break occurs we can discriminate between the two models by testing the implication that the coefficient on in equation ( 3.16 ) has increased to after the regime break . |
| 20 | They appreciate the effort the manufacturer has gone to in order to produce the goods . |
| 21 | Overnight , the violence has spread to within a mile of my house . |
| 22 | the advice centre and what has happened to with erm er , I 've er , if you 've read the reports you 'll see that er , that had been working er under er er er a considerable amount of er er stress and strain . |
| 23 | I wondered where you 'd got to with Summerchild . ’ |
| 24 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 25 | He remembered , from the one or two he 'd gone to with her , that she was in the habit of pocketing things and crunching large handfuls of crisps . |
| 26 | At twenty-eight , I began to find myself , having overcome the many spiritual depths I 'd sunk to in my emotional isolation . |
| 27 | and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast |
| 28 | Curtis said that growth was more marked in Germany than the UK , with the number of lines having grown to between 60,000 and 70,000 in 1992 from 20,000 in 1991 . |
| 29 | I did n't know about the RSPB or the RSPCA or any other caring agency I could have turned to for assistance . |
| 30 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |