Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've always had to work very hard but at the end of the day I 'm , I 'm self-satisfied because I 'm I 'm doing what I want to do . |
| 32 | He had n't had to suffer as much as her — I do n't so much mean that , like fishes , his pain threshold was higher than a human being 's ( although I do n't doubt that was the case ) as that he 'd been aware that his son was missing for a shorter period than his wife . |
| 33 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 34 | Through her time of growing up , Miranda had had to talk so loud to interrupt the brawling , crying , canoodling jag that was her parent 's marriage , to entertain so insistently in order to divert them from the partying , bickering , kiss-and-make-up affair that absorbed them totally , that she had become as deaf to tremors and to nuances as her former games mistress shouting ‘ Bombs Coming Over ’ or ‘ Scrub the Decks ’ through a megaphone in the gym at the dim convent Miranda had been sent to for those three years of her childhood when the family had been in funds . |
| 35 | ‘ For the third year running , we have been unable to build a single house , yet in that period we have had to re-house nearly 2,000 homeless families . ’ |
| 36 | I must insist we get back to the boundaries , I 've repeatedly had to do so this afternoon I would have thought it that the message would have got over to me honourable members before now . |
| 37 | What the trials of such war criminals as Klaus Barbie have revealed is that they really had to do very little work at all . |
| 38 | It is said that Rundell 's had to satisfy so many orders at this time that Storr & Co. was obliged to work , in the way of dinner services , centre-pieces , and other ceremonial and domestic plate , some ten thousand ounces of silver a month . |
| 39 | Just in recent weeks we have had public reports of a cardiologist who has had to turn seriously ill patients away because of the budget system — I am telling the truth about the health — |
| 40 | A full survey even of German theology in that period would have had to mention very many more , and to bring out a far wider range of approaches and issues ; but we have attended particularly to those whose legacy did most to shape the background to more recent thought . |
| 41 | ‘ The Chancellor has had to face very difficult economic circumstances both abroad , which affects us , and at home , ’ he said . |
| 42 | They have also had to face greatly increased competition both to get into drama school and into the profession . |
| 43 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 44 | We could have had to pay as much as £10,000 . ’ |
| 45 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 46 | Booksellers in particular have had to undertake very large mailing operations , and many have achieved no more than 30% response rate so far . |
| 47 | In her short career keep-fit fanatic Lesley has had to spend nearly nine months off duty recovering from her injuries . |
| 48 | But even that last saving grace of their relationship had begun to collapse when she had had to spend so much of her time down in Devon , looking after her father and his chaotic affairs . |
| 49 | Not realising what had been going on , she 'd failed to understand why he 'd had to spend so many nights in the penthouse suite of his office . |
| 50 | ‘ The county council have had to re-tender virtually all services in the Liss , area , and so people , as always with competitive tendering must be prepared for some changes tot he operators and timetables , ’ said Mr. Clark . |
| 51 | Moreover the pace of technological change has increased steadily during the latter half of the twentieth century so that the farm worker in turn has had to become more adaptable to successive new innovations . |
| 52 | Both employers and contractors have had to become more aware of the detailed provisions of contracts , and the liabilities or benefits they confer . |
| 53 | WHY I 'VE HAD TO THROW AWAY THAT PHOTO |
| 54 | ‘ We have also had to throw away 200 lbs of meat in case it has been contaminated by glass fragments . |
| 55 | I do not feel that I should have to instruct even junior typists that my documents , all my documents , are entirely confidential . ’ |
| 56 | Interest rates will have to remain painfully high for some months , and departmental spending will be made to stay within the current planning totals : even the big-spending ministers recognise they are involved in bidding against each other , rather than against the Treasury . |
| 57 | Botham may find himself having to bowl rather more than his contract anticipated , and with nearly half the team aged 35 or more they will need a fit physio-therapist . |
| 58 | If our choice of is over-optimistic , we may have to re-instate temporarily inactive nodes . |
| 59 | The government would have to borrow more outside or spend less . |
| 60 | ‘ But it 's going to put an awful lot of island people to a lot of trouble , and it will mean many hundreds of them will have to wait even longer for jobs now . ’ |