Example sentences of "have [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 2 | But , you might find the trip you want is full , and you have to go for another . |
| 3 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 4 | I think , I think we have to wait for the letter , I suspect you 'll probably find both those changed to some extent after that so er I think we really have to wait for that . |
| 5 | He says : ‘ It 's ludicrous that we have to wait for three to five years when a foreign company can come in and pick up a UK TV company right now . ’ |
| 6 | Apart from the lugger and the recovery of the bomber , we have to wait for three other things . |
| 7 | Thus for a proper appreciation of the distinction between " slow " and " fast " you have to wait for electromagnetic waves to be introduced , discussed , and digested . |
| 8 | One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's mostly my gardener I have to thank for that ’ , said the doctor modestly , ‘ but , yes , I do take an interest . |
| 10 | ‘ But ladies and gentlemen , ’ he went on , ‘ who is it we have to thank for this great blessing that has come upon us ? |
| 11 | Somehow you have to provide for these additional demands , and many more , within the annual budget voted each year to the service . |
| 12 | Right , quite right cos you have to work for two |
| 13 | Have to work for that . |
| 14 | — there are far fewer letters than sounds , so that , for example , the five written vowels have to stand for two to three times as many spoken vowels ; |
| 15 | The music will tell you what to do , so you have to look for new technical solutions all the time . |
| 16 | I have to play for next week . |
| 17 | It begins with Banking and Finance , Advertising and the Promotion Industry and Marketing , and booksellers no longer have to apologise for ancient and/or American ESP special English titles . |
| 18 | It leaves us saying ‘ We do n't like this one but we like that one less ’ , so we have to opt for lesser evils . ’ |
| 19 | So it does seem to work this method , and it wor this is the method we have to use for all the numbers including the As and Bs and Xs and Ys where we do n't know what the number is . |
| 20 | you have to do for that then ? |
| 21 | And what did you do , have to do for that ? |
| 22 | Animals can not make a living so simply , ; not being able to photosynthesize , they have to hunt for prepackaged food , either directly by eating plants or indirectly by eating the animals that have eaten the plants . |
| 23 | Your success could be resented by others , which may mean that you have to fight for dear life to hang on to what you 've got , or there will be little time to enjoy your personal or social life . |
| 24 | Even at this early date , therefore , we have to allow for managed areas of woodland , as well as wildwood , in the landscape . |
| 25 | We have to allow for some license : he is writing to his brother in Paris about this street pick-up and doing his best to make it palatable . |
| 26 | You body wo n't turn as much as it did before , you get tired more quickly , you 're less able to concentrate for long periods and have to allow for more errors . |
| 27 | Priorities only seem useful when we can not get exactly what we want and we have to settle for second-best . |
| 28 | you have to call for those in favour intention will you now call for a vote for those against |
| 29 | If we want to argue that the causal mechanism is fairly direct , we have to control for similar intervening variables . |
| 30 | There is no way that non-experimental data can be made to yield two independent estimates of the effect of X on Y and of Y on X ; we have to plump for one or the other . |