Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparison , on Gibson 's Flying V guitar , the bridge pickup has to sit rather high because of the effect the tune-o-matic bridge has in raising the height of the strings above the body , which I 've always thought looked and felt a little clumsy . |
| 2 | They cover a lot of ground so the designated flight area has to include very generous margins of up to an extra 50% over the line lengths and , most important , this area has to be clear of all spectators and especially other kites . |
| 3 | But the council still has to find nearly five million pounds to pay for the improvements , and that could mean cuts elsewhere . |
| 4 | The jet has a high bottom line , the operator has to find as much work for it as he can to spread its costs and make a profitable . |
| 5 | This has to meet fairly stringent demands , and the main criteria are : |
| 6 | This means that , in the case of a signal of mains frequency , 50 Hz , for which the wavelength is = 6000 km in air , the line has to exceed around 60 km in length before its distributed nature needs to be taken into account . |
| 7 | In the defenders ' trials , Dennis Conner 's Stars & Stripes has to win only one more race against America to be sure of a place in the final later this month . |
| 8 | This implies of course that the infinitive event 's realization by the subject has to constitute sufficiently significant information about the referent which the latter refers to for the sentence to be worth uttering . |
| 9 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 10 | One has to do so much talking , and I do n't like talking . |
| 11 | In 1984 in an interview with the Giornale dell'Arte Bonito Oliva observed that ‘ A critic has to have extremely rapid reactions ; his role is to grasp ideas and project them into the future ’ . |
| 12 | Local registry offices will also supply copies of certificates if the event was recorded in their district , but they do not provide facilities for consulting indexes and so the genealogist has to have fairly precise information before a successful search for a certificate can be made . |
| 13 | To avoid sailing in dirty wind everyone has to tack slightly late and the queue stacks up above the layline . |
| 14 | Under the new scheme this group of claimants gain a weekly benefit valued at £27.40 but from this the claimant has to pay both 20 per cent of his or her rates bill and , similarly , 20 per cent of the water rates bill . |
| 15 | Taking preservatives out is easy , but it means that everyone in food handling — producers , distributors , retailers , caterers and consumers — has to pay even more attention to food hygiene . |
| 16 | It 's aim is to simplify vendors ' programmes , so that a customer has to pay only one bill . |
| 17 | Most of her rent — £96 a month — is covered by housing benefit but she still has to pay about half of her poll tax . |
| 18 | The wedding industry has to get as much cash as possible out of the remaining couples who choose to tie the knot with the blessing of God and every florist in Britain . |
| 19 | The planning authority also has to advertise locally any proposals involving large buildings ( those more than 20 metres high ) , or any ‘ unneighbourly uses ’ — such as a casino , scrap yard , cemetery or slaughterhouse — and put up a notice on the site itself . |
| 20 | Betty uses the scheme once a week , although she is unhappy about the fact that she has to spend so much time getting the equipment ready . |
| 21 | TO MAINTAIN PROFITABILITY in the face of growing international competition Chlor-Chemicals has to become increasingly market-driven . |
| 22 | We consider this comment to be without foundation and should point out that as a condition of the land being used as a permanent site for our mobile home , we have had to plant over 100 conifers , together with shrubs and rose bushes . |
| 23 | But the Liberal Democrats protested that their front bench spokesman had had to wait nearly five hours to be called by the Speaker instead of being called at the start of the debate like the Government and Opposition . |
| 24 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , for many years within the referral area of the Plymouth eye infirmary , people have had to wait excessively long periods not only for an initial eye examination but for subsequent treatment ? |
| 25 | As Richards pointed out , the fact that the history of sexuality has had to wait so long to be written shows the strength of the taboos we have inherited . |
| 26 | Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front . |
| 27 | She has had to work really hard to maintain herself in recent times . |
| 28 | I 've had to work doubly hard to get there . |
| 29 | Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards . |
| 30 | I loved your christmas centrefold but I was a little concerned that Pippin and PJ might have had to work very hard to get that shot . |