Example sentences of "have to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some companies this role has to a degree been formalised through the creation of audit committees made up of non-executives , their function being to review the effectiveness of the company 's auditing procedures and to liaise with the auditors . |
| 2 | In recent years the model 's exclusive focus on shareholder interests has to a degree been modified . |
| 3 | Originally published by Poetry Wales in 1982 , this updated edition of critical writings on R S Thomas not only explores the evolving approaches Thomas has to a variety of , by now , well- established themes , but also contains an extended bibliography of source material , invaluable to any student or reader of Thomas 's work . |
| 4 | This leaves the US as the nearest thing the world has to a globocop , the only major power able to project its military forces on a global scale . |
| 5 | Listen , Rober' , if there is anything we can do — I think we are now the nearest thing your friend Nader has to a family here in Paris . ’ |
| 6 | To justify a treatment of women which denies their autonomy , resort has been had to a ragbag of ideas about female and male sexuality , varying from the bogus to the irrelevant and culled formerly from medicine and latterly from psychoanalysis . |
| 7 | The nearest that we have had to a declaration so far is an off-the-cuff remark to journalists in Harare last week , when the Prime Minister said : ’ There are eight months to go . ’ |
| 8 | It also lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module . |
| 9 | The following lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module : |
| 10 | well I went down to the park had to a act , went on again ! |
| 11 | He walked quickly down the road and then it was something about him not being late cos he had to a contract . |
| 12 | I had to a man with the stick earlier . |
| 13 | Nothing much could happen to her on a sunny September afternoon between here and the launderette , and Mrs Barakhda who ran it was a friend of hers , or the nearest Lili had to a friend . |
| 14 | Yeah , well , thank you Chairman , I I I 'm erm er , I must admit , I 'm I I am think long and and and er think deep really , about er , you know , changes such as this , but I I also er , er have to run my own businesses , and er , I just er , I think we have experienced a water-shed , it 's coincided to some extent with the change of administration and then during the nineteen eighties , we had to a boom in this county , we had the the opportunity and I never er ever er , been against that principle , of er , of er , using our actual receipts we have hidden reserves , we we talked about the reserves of twenty nine million pounds here , for the er , erm , we have er er , assets of twenty nine million , in an earlier paper . |
| 15 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 16 | A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill . |