Example sentences of "have to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 2 | However that theory has to a certain extent been undermined by the ratio of this judgment which says that during employment the employee may not disclose or use his skill and knowledge to the detriment of his employer without being in breach of his duty of fidelity . |
| 3 | Cross-border banking is essentially wholesale banking and has to a large extent been dependent on euro-currency deposit growth . |
| 4 | The overall response of the British state to this twofold crisis has to a large extent been characterized by penological pragmatism : responding to developments and attempting to manage the resources crisis ‘ with no clear or coherent philosophical or other theoretical basis ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 4 ) . |
| 5 | Fortunately continuing research by agrochemical manufacturers has to a large extent enabled the persistent organo-chlorides to be suspended . |
| 6 | ‘ Traditional climatic geomorphology as represented by most of the papers in this volume has to a large extent glossed over this paucity of knowledge of fundamentals ; it may be said to have proceeded , like Davis 's work , to premature generalization on the basis of quite vague ideas on the underlying process relations . |
| 7 | There has to a meaningful comparison between the CAA 's charging policy and those of its EC counterparts as we move into an integrated European system . |
| 8 | The unorganised relationship of one enterprise with another , through buying and selling , has to a considerable extent been replaced by an organised relationship through the ‘ controlled holding ’ of shares , ‘ participation ’ and ‘ financing ’ , which find personal expression in the ‘ Dirigenten ’ of the banks , industry , the enterprises and trusts . |
| 9 | The second type : considerably fewer relics of serfdom , the landowner has to a considerable extent already become a capitalist , the peasants are better off and the peasant market has a greater capacity , etc . |
| 10 | The growing central controls on the curriculum , and other aspects of state schooling , has to a considerable extent been grounded on a concern with the quality of teaching , and the associated view that improving the quality of education is dependent on improving the quality of teaching . |
| 11 | We shall see later that the power of the occupiers to exclude or restrict their liability towards visitors has to a considerable extent been eroded by s. 2 Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 12 | In fact , Caernarfon is the nearest building Wales has to a royal palace having been owned continuously by the Crown ever since Edward I established it in 1283 . |
| 13 | There is no doubt that the progress achieved to date has to a significant extent been the result of your backing . ’ |
| 14 | This massive requiem sets Walt Whitman 's great , wordy poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'd to a sensuous orchestral accompaniment — ‘ Hindemith can be a little dry , but not in this work ’ — with solo roles for the dark-timbre voices of mezzo soprano Ameral Gunson and bass David Wilson-Johnson . |
| 15 | You do n't even have to a good d-i-yer to erect an attractive arch or pergola in your garden . |
| 16 | But , we now have to consolidate , and I decided that that would have to a gentle process , not a sort of Birtian revolution . |
| 17 | You do n't have to a professional masseur — try these movements yourself . |
| 18 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Soviet specialists accepted that in the past these zones had to a certain extent acted as a means of averting war . |
| 20 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 21 | Flynn was the nearest John had to a right-hand man . |
| 22 | The police have indicated that they believe the Tamil Tigers were responsible for the bomb , but people are sceptical : Mr Premadasa was the closest thing the Tigers had to a political friend . |
| 23 | As we know erm Canning had to a great extent welcomed the end of the congress system . |
| 24 | Now half a crown in those days was a lot of money , you had to a full day 's work for half a crown , make no mistake on that . |
| 25 | When told to settle down — and Emlyn Williams , who had to a large extent taken over the parental role from Philip Burton at this stage , did instruct him to do that — it clicked with something and he thought — well , why not ? |
| 26 | It is an interesting curiousity that the nearest thing that we have to a minimum wage was introduced by Winston Churchill that one-time Conservative Prime Minister , in an earlier political guise . |
| 27 | Towns like Sherwood , Arnold and Beeston , have to a certain extent been absorbed by the City and this is visible in the application of the model . |
| 28 | These J Wave scientists are investigating Britain 's club culture at close hand , and Norman Cook is the nearest thing they have to a perfect specimen . |
| 29 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 30 | One of our basic problems is that modern scientific medicine and the society which it serves have to a great extent forgotten who and what human beings are . |