Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underthread for the lockstitch is provided by the bobbin , and the needle thread has to perform a loop to go around the bobbin which is held in a bobbin case under a slide plate . |
| 2 | The machine does not need to know anything : it has to perform a task . |
| 3 | However there are a number of important controlling factors : firstly , the subject fixates centrally ( usually he has to report a digit which is presented in order to confirm this central fixation ) ; secondly , the stimulus is exposed for less than 200 milliseconds to avoid eye movement ; thirdly , the visual angle of the stimuli from the fixation point should be between 2.5° and 5° ( otherwise , confounding effects occur ) . |
| 4 | ‘ He has to see a man , ’ I reminded her tonelessly . |
| 5 | Craig 's father Robert says his son is still suffering from nightmares , and has to see a psychiatrist weekly for counselling . |
| 6 | Perhaps it 's enough to be Scarlet , who has to see a therapist and dreams only of early retirement and death . |
| 7 | Please sir , Axl 's doctor said we 're to be nice to him because he comes from a broken home and he has to wear a kilt . |
| 8 | In a new age of philistinism , when everything has to wear a price tag , the beauty and wonder of the world of nature have low value in the market place . |
| 9 | She now has to wear a neck brace , keep her left arm still with a sling and use a walking stick . |
| 10 | But Kernaghan has to wear a brace on his right leg for another five weeks after his knee locked against Tranmere Rovers . |
| 11 | She also has to wear a set of hideously long fingernails . |
| 12 | His arm is weak , and he has to wear a splint on his leg . |
| 13 | The introduction has to paint a picture — it must give a solid reason why the report has to be considered , so the background of the subject matter is the core of the introduction . |
| 14 | Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea . |
| 15 | Teaching and particularly a scheme of one-to-one tutoring and counselling has to encourage a response from each student which testifies to that student 's commitment to thorough enquiry , hard thinking , self-scrutiny and honesty of purpose , all set within a context of the daily practicalities of management . |
| 16 | Labour has to find a defence and foreign policy that rejects the Conservatives ' Great Power illusions . |
| 17 | To get on to the housing ladder , the first-time buyer has to find a deposit of 5% or more of the property price , and with a typical housing price/income ratio of three times , this can represent 15% or more of annual income . |
| 18 | It has to find a way to appeal to younger drivers . |
| 19 | In which case it has to find a way of lowering expectations of the public good , limiting damage by the pursuit of private interest , building a different notion of good citizenship and public virtue out of that private interest . |
| 20 | So , if the green lacewing larva is to enjoy a decent meal of woolly alder aphids , it has to find a way of avoiding being attacked by the ants . |
| 21 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 22 | Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another . |
| 23 | When he was then slow in announcing a name , Churchill enjoyed himself with the mot that ‘ Baldwin has to find a man of inferior ability to himself , and this Herculean task requires time for its accomplishment . ’ |
| 24 | In The Favour , The Watch And The Very Big Fish Bob Hoskins plays a Paris photographer of religious themes who has to find a model for Christ on the cross and comes up with Jeff Goldblum , an ex-convict and former lover of an actress ( Natasha Richardson ) , who he meets at a pornographic dubbing studio . |
| 25 | Nowadays the holding of dances , raffles , and pub talks along with the fixture has pushed up the sums enormously , although if inflation and house prices are taken into account even £50,000 or over is hardly a fortune for a man who has to find a job and keep a family . |
| 26 | What this means is she has to find a job fast . |
| 27 | If a police officer has to request a driver to produce a current test certificate , the officer must bear in mind the problem of proving the date of first registration . |
| 28 | It means the teacher only has to write a word once , in the teacher 's book , instead of thirty-plus times , once in each child 's book . |
| 29 | It 's where he goes when he has to write a speech … ’ |
| 30 | In the latter case the policewoman has to write a report on the child for the superintendent to determine whether or not prosecution should follow . |