Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gordon Brown , shadow trade secretary , asked : ‘ Why have we had to rely on the Ombudsman to confirm the mismanagement , the maladministration and incompetence that was widely known more than a year ago ? ’ |
| 2 | And what sort of things might we have to encounter on the road ? ’ |
| 3 | Will the surveillance made possible by modern information technology only apply at the frontiers , or shall we have to live with it in our daily lives ? |
| 4 | Do we have to talk about it ? ’ |
| 5 | Do we have to talk about that word , really . |
| 6 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 7 | Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ? |
| 8 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 9 | Lakeside resident Denton Bell said : ‘ Will we have to wait for somebody to die or for a building to burn down before something is done ? ’ |
| 10 | Why do we have to wait until 1993 before the poll tax is abolished ? |
| 11 | Or , to put it another way , how long would we have to wait before random chemical events on the planet , random thermal jostling of atoms and molecules , resulted in a self-replicating molecule ? |
| 12 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 13 | But do we have to go to distant worlds to find other kinds of replicator and other , consequent , kinds of evolution ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why do we have to go to Glastonbury ? ’ |
| 15 | How far round do we have to go on that ? |
| 16 | In the later afternoon , Andrew Gregg , deputy co-ordinator of ‘ UUUC Advice and Relief Centres ’ , and I returned to Central Strike Headquarters and collected a portable typewriter and some other items of equipment useful for continuing the strike should we have to go into hiding . |
| 17 | Do we have to go through all that again ! ’ |
| 18 | Why do we have to go through this sort of agony in every American Major ? |
| 19 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 20 | Do we have to paint underneath the side ? |
| 21 | do we have to conclude from if it was a play about the Cold War , what is the conclusion of it ? |
| 22 | Why sho why should we have to pay for this service as well as our poll tax ? |
| 23 | Going well , I do n't care why should we have to pay for all those poor people ! |
| 24 | She sat there going well why should we have to pay for poor people who ca n't be bothered to get jobs , they 're so lazy ! |
| 25 | Why should we have to suffer from such incompetence ? — . |
| 26 | Well I mean what 's er what do we have to think about |
| 27 | So what do we have to think of when we actually compile a menu ? |
| 28 | So when we talk of galaxies , do we have to think of forces , and not curved space ? ’ |
| 29 | Why do we have to fight like this ? ’ |
| 30 | " Where would we have to start from ? " |