Example sentences of "have [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I could not , in all conscience , advise anybody to embark on a commercial diving career at present , especially if that person has to borrow the money needed for the training .
2 Leadership has to see the work of the organisation within a wider context and to be aware of the environment within which the organisation is working .
3 It is hard to understand why the RIBA has to promote the idea of employing architects to design individual homes — only the British seem to resist architect involvement .
4 If anyone makes a mistake , it 's the senior person who has to carry the can . ’
5 In the Army someone has to carry the can .
6 In the end , it is always the client who has to carry the can , and fortunately RCA backed up Roche by continuing to retain his services .
7 ‘ I 'm the one who has to carry the guilt around .
8 As the House of Commons has sole responsibility for financial matters , it has to carry the burden of the work on financial bills .
9 Because I believe that it is the women that goes through all the pain , suffering and has to carry the burden of the chance of getting pregnant which a man does not have for obvious reasons .
10 All in all , this is a most effective collaboration even if the innocent eyed Sunday painter W. Littlefair has to carry the burden of being the sole representative of the newly formed one-year-old Yarm Art Society which boasts 18 members on his shoulders .
11 One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale .
12 The carer has to issue the command ‘ No ! ’ if the patient behaves badly .
13 The user then has to input the date and it is against this date that all transactions will be checked .
14 Clearly , formulations of gist and upshot are important in written and formal spoken discourse too , although there the task of the sender is much harder , as he or she has to estimate the need for reformulation at any given point .
15 has to hit the uranium nucleus , and breaks it up into two other particles and it releases three neutrons .
16 ‘ You mean you have to throw it , and it has to hit the target ? ’
17 Notice that the selected range has to include the starting point of the date sequence .
18 A book of ethics does not have to spell it out , any more than a book about mathematics or zoology has to include the reminder ‘ Read me attentively , intelligently ’ .
19 One has to search the memory to find the names of the rest of the Famous Five .
20 If the community really wants to tackle the problems of alcohol abuse it merely has to encourage the government to push up the cost of alcohol beyond the point of everyday affordability .
21 The lizard loses fat stoned in the tail , and yet has to find the wherewithal to repair its wounded body and regenerate its tail .
22 every Brownie has to find the egg which has her name on it .
23 One then has to extrapolate the result back to the real space-time in which we live .
24 He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty .
25 He 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and a at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty .
26 Milk , after the baby is born the first time the baby actually has to digest its own food it has to process the food that it takes in , what 's in milk ?
27 To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to increase the number of heart specialists working in national health service hospitals in Scotland .
28 We sipped — or in my case gulped — the weak but tasty punch , nibbled on Aunt Tone 's buffet-bits , and played Alternative Charades ; an invention of my father 's in which one first has to guess the category of the thing one is being asked to decipher .
29 Your partner has to guess the name of the product .
30 The girl at the front of the line has to guess the word — if she can !
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