Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goldie takes one look at Rainbow 's shaggy ankles and sighs ; Rainbow says that if she has to wear tights or stockings , we might as well forget the whole damned thing . |
| 2 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 3 | Socialists believe in greater equality in society : ‘ A more equal society will be a more prosperous society and a more peaceful society ’ ( Roy Hattersley , Hansard 16 April , 1987 ) , but they are criticised for favouring policies of distribution rather than production — ‘ Someone has to create wealth before the politicians fall to sharing that wealth out ’ ( Kenneth Clarke , Hansard 6 April 1987 ) . |
| 4 | The beginning has to create interest and tell the reader what to expect , while the end will form a disproportionate part of the reader 's final impression of your essay ( in fact , many readers will read the end first , to find out what conclusions you draw ) . |
| 5 | In particular , given the ambiguity of economic analysis , policy has to identify rules or presumptions to indicate the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable market conduct and structure , but it has to offer at least some scope for the parties involved in such cases to argue countervailing efficiency benefits . |
| 6 | Streets are blocked and atheism has to give way as people kneel in the streets and cross themselves with the sign of the Holy Trinity . ) |
| 7 | What she wants to talk about , everyone has to do matrix or learn more of the crap . |
| 8 | for this idea to work , one has to consider histories that take place in imaginary time , rather than in the real time in which we perceive ourselves as living . |
| 9 | When Engles therefore tries to explain the passage from the second stage to the gens stage he has no theoretical tools to deal with this , and he lamely has to echo Morgan and to explain the passage in Darwinian terms dealing with natural selection . |
| 10 | You are a little animal , muddling up my life , that expects to be fed and clothed , that has to have schools and presents . |
| 11 | the costs which the father has to pay rise and our law says that |
| 12 | This is not only likely to be painful for him , but it undermines his stability , so that he can only walk slowly , with constant concentration , and he is much more likely to fall over if he has to change direction or if he is distracted . |
| 13 | The Stiwdio Barcud event was to launch a new guide to the services and expertise Gwynedd has to offer film and video producers . |
| 14 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 15 | ‘ Schools cricket has to take priority and that 's the way it should be , ’ said Givan . |
| 16 | A school which is trying to establish an ethos of healthy living has to take care that the message it gives to pupils are reflected in the school generally . |
| 17 | No , but the point is that to in all our cases to provide a community resource which is going to be of genuine use to artists and the general public , erm one has to take care that the standards of work and the standards of community facilities are as high as they possibly can be if you want to attract maximum usage , and what we will be trying to do in circumstances like this encourage as many people to come up to the Gardener at weekends during the summer and have as enjoyable a time as possible . |
| 18 | It 's really sad that integrity has sunk so low that any magazine has to print stuff that is n't really true . |
| 19 | Yet his ambition gets the better of him in Act 1 Scene 5 where Malcolm is named Prince of Cumberland and he realises he has to stop Malcolm and also decides to kill the king and not leave the kingship to fate . |
| 20 | To do this he has to employ language and gesture appropriate to the context in which he finds himself — he may shout ‘ Halt ! ’ or give a salute on an army parade ground , but not at a picnic . |
| 21 | What I , one of the things that I , I think you must have somewhere , and that is that at some stage you order something , you get it in and somehow someone has to tell accounts that yes , they can pay that invoice . |
| 22 | He knows that tomorrow he has to tell Potter that he needs the time off again . |
| 23 | Today Barclaycard announced it has to cut costs and cut jobs . |
| 24 | She bravely attempts to recover the occasion , but this time has to admit defeat and dismiss the guests . |
| 25 | You have to have confidence in your own ability and being black is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned 'cause I 've had to sample bits and pieces of how life can be nasty and it 's done me good . |
| 26 | Even where communities have got together to build a school themselves , under an agreement with the government , they have sometimes had to wait years before the government sends teachers to staff it . |
| 27 | A bus firm 's had to cancel services because its drivers are too ill to work … and Swindon Town have called off a reserve match because they 're down to just 6 fit players . |
| 28 | So we have had to classify viewing and listening by respondents ' reports of their ‘ regular ’ behaviour in March 1987 . |
| 29 | The icy seas had swept over her decks , and men had had to work night and day with axes to keep her afloat . |
| 30 | He has also had to counter allegations that he is dragging television down-market then listen to television pundits witter on about skirt lengths , sexual chemistry and the F-factor , under the guise of highbrow criticism . |