Example sentences of "have [verb] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 People have to choose whether to pay back their debts or feed their children .
2 Indeed , it is the fact of recession which rather suggests that the greatest threat to the persistence of corporatist arrangements may come , not from the Left and labour , but from the Right and from the industrial capitalists themselves — those interests , that is , that the Left have seen as having benefited most from corporatism .
3 Rough , tough , fast and furious , it has no comparison on the Continent , and many such teams have suffered when pitted against it .
4 Yet part of our confusion over how to understand the Revolution stems from the inappropriate conceptual approach most scholars have adopted when assessing its significance .
5 What you have to remember if tempted to copy any ‘ late-hit ’ pose , is that the professional will move his clubhead through almost half a circle while his hands may only have moved about 18 inches from the right to left thigh , and then only because he has already got the clubhead moving fast .
6 Or , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , I am delighted to be invited to tell you about the amusing experiences I have had while travelling/teaching as a , etc . ’
7 Advice to visitors issued in March was to be vigilant at all times , avoid Dairut and Assiut where the most serious attacks have occurred unless carrying out essential business , and dress and behave discreetly .
8 This behaviour is part of a dynamic , or constantly changing process within the group , which can be influenced by individuals in response to issues that have occurred whilst undertaking the task .
9 I thought a good idea was to have a problem page where embalmers could write in with their problems that have occurred whilst embalming , and other members can write in giving tips and ways to overcome these problems .
10 I have the highest praise for the professionalism and dedication of the Oxford police and for the bravery that they have shown when confronted by ugly and sickening attacks .
11 recognizing that … the rights and responsibilities of the Four Powers relating to Berlin and Germany as a whole lose their function … have agreed as follows :
12 taking into account the signing of the Treaty on the Final Settlement on Germany of Sept. 12 , 1990 , … have agreed as follows :
13 This training procedure evidently generates context-specific latent inhibition , a result that I have interpreted as implying that the effects of exposure to the CS are less likely to interfere with new learning when the context is changed .
14 Very few alto players have produced as dazzling a body of work and gained as much respect from their peers as Bobby Watson .
15 We are delighted and thrilled with the enthusiasm and ingenuity you have displayed while producing a grand total of over £2,500 .
16 We are particularly concerned to identify whose who have lapsed while continuing to live in the locality .
17 All you have to do while sitting at home or at work , or on a train or bus , is to tense up the arm and leg muscles , then let them go , saying to yourself ‘ I am relaxed ’ .
18 Special recruitment drives have been organised , " model agreements " governing when and under what conditions temporary workers might be used , and " casual workers " charters ' have been drawn up Some unions , notably the electricians , have gone further , establishing local registers of ( otherwise ) unemployed members from which employers have to draw when filling the temporary positions enterprise level agreements have permitted them to create .
19 A problem we have encountered when marking hyperdocuments is knowing whether we have explored the whole document .
20 One of the unquestionable advantages of the growing use of computers by humanists is that it has done something to bridge the divide between two cultures — scientific and humanist — which many writers have lamented as threatening to fragment the community of scholars and the republic of learning .
21 The basic principles of penal treatment that I have portrayed as running through most positivist criminological theorising , also became incorporated into penal practice .
22 I have found when mixing cement , sand and water , that they need the help of a softening agent to make the mortar much more malleable .
23 Having reached the end of the second sentence , we have to decide whether to repeat what we have already written , or introduce something new as a contrast or relief .
24 I have to decide whether to put in my poems and short stories and a series of LETTERS , originally called LETTERS TO x ( some 180 very short letters written in three days in about two years ago ) rather in the writing style of the legendary DEAR ABBIE written in the 1920s ( or 30s ? you are bound to know ! ) by Dane Chandos .
25 It 's less tiring because otherwise you 've got to come in during the afternoon , then you have to decide whether to go back to the hotel or stay at the show .
26 The latter have to decide whether to stop trying or to resort to more unconventional methods in the hope that government will be sufficiently embarrassed by the ensuing mayhem to consult them .
27 The prisoner 's dilemma — a game where two players have to decide whether to co-operate with each other or cheat — has long been of great interest to economists .
28 Then the trustees have to decide whether to distribute it or not ; keep it for future expenses and things like that .
29 It is considered more conventional for girls to take arts subjects than sciences ; as convergers tend to be more conventional in outlook , girls are in something of a double bind — they have to decide whether to follow their inclinations or to make a ‘ conventional ’ choice .
30 When it is apparent that external circumstances have changed , you have to decide whether to cry chicken and run too early , or continue to reinforce and spend time , money and ever increasing numbers of your best people , who are invariably sucked into the most difficult areas of the battle , trying to fight a war which you can not win .
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