Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even at night time the chronic itching is no better and Graham has to wear a specially made sleep suit which covers his entire body , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 2 | In order to prevent a drain of young English cricketers to South Africa during the winter , the TCCB has to provide a suitably well-rewarded alternative and it is in this area that Subba Row 's successor will need to shine . |
| 3 | First , though , one has to obtain a very thin section of the rock , thin enough to be translucent . |
| 4 | A true friend of the earth has to flirt a little with the earthlings . |
| 5 | But he has to behave a little badly . |
| 6 | Conversely with a low gear ratio the effective load inertia is high and the motor accelerates slowly , but has to reach a relatively low stepping rate to move the load at a satisfactory speed . |
| 7 | Often he has to interpret a badly worded question , with no hope of redress if his guess as to the examiner 's meaning should turn out to be wrong . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what proposals he has to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources for the social fund . |
| 9 | This is because capital gain on the whole value of the house accrues to the owner , whereas he only has to repay a relatively small proportion of the mortgage each year . |
| 10 | In the Dusun language every clause has to have a grammatically marked topic ( i.e. the person or thing about which something is said ) , which is determined by the larger context ( at discourse level ) . |
| 11 | The liver to do that work has to have a very very good supply of oxygen . |
| 12 | Pound appears the most crucial case , at least among poets writing in English , of those whose poetry — for those who value it — has to survive a self-evidently and perilously wrong understanding of history , and hence of politics . |
| 13 | To cope with this , the father has to take a very active part in housekeeping and child-rearing , violating traditional conceptions of gender roles . |
| 14 | ‘ The public interest has to take a much wider view than that . ’ |
| 15 | General practitioners have had to bear a much heavier load than even the most pessimistic were expecting . |
| 16 | And to make a successful television career , Sue Lawley has had to tread a very careful path of being acceptable ( mainly to men ) as both a woman and a ‘ professional ’ . |
| 17 | If he had been asked what Roland Michell was , he would have had to give a very different answer . |
| 18 | Anyone who has had to teach a mathematically based subject will know the difficulties which students encounter in negotiating a new level of abstraction . |
| 19 | On many occasions we have increased the sensitivity of our measurements or made a new class of observations , only to discover new phenomena that were not predicted by the existing theory , and to account for these we have had to develop a more advanced theory . |
| 20 | The composers have had to learn a completely new keyboard layout , ( with the standard QWERTY arrangement ) . |
| 21 | Sunderland will have to wait a little longer before knowing whether to turn left or right on to the M25 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm afraid you may have to wait a little longer , ’ he replied apologetically . |
| 23 | Those waiting for the other light operas depicted on the new stamps , will have to wait a little longer to see them staged . |
| 24 | But he or his successor will have to wait a little longer for the revenue benefits which should flow from the more buoyant climate for project investment he has tried to create . |
| 25 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 26 | Those actively interested in diamonds will have to wait a very long time before they will be able to put their hands on these cosmic ornaments . |
| 27 | You mean I 'll have to wait a very long time . |
| 28 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
| 29 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |
| 30 | Half had been discharged quite recently from an acute psychiatric admission ward — hostels provide a cheap and available alternative to a permanent home and avoid the mental health teams having to plan a more satisfactory discharge . |