Example sentences of "have [to-vb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to go on special courses to carry guns |
| 2 | As debt must be serviced to avoid defaulting on creditors , planned ‘ cuts ’ in local expenditure particularly in periods of rising interest rates — invariably have to fall on other revenue items , such as salaries , running costs and services . |
| 3 | I think last year more or less shows that we really have to concentrate on one thing . |
| 4 | Attempts to do something about the problem have to concentrate on underground resources . |
| 5 | The less fortunate have to stand on aching pins as the carriage , unventilated ( it is impossible to fit air conditioning to tube trains as the tunnels are too small to acccommodate such devices ) , grows hot and foetid ; even the lines of Shirley Lim 's Modern Secrets up there amongst the ads- ‘ Last night I dreamt in Chinese/Eating Yankee Shredded Wheat ’ -brought to us by ‘ Poems On The Underground , ’ a ruse to make tube travel a little less stressful , can not alleviate the strap-hangers ' gloom and frustration . |
| 6 | But if you have to manage on meagre resources , you will cope well . |
| 7 | The records of salt imports are incomplete , and the only tables which can be compiled have to draw on several years in any period to include all the ports involved . |
| 8 | Prices start from as little as £7.50 and he told us : ‘ The glass is very expensive so you have to practise on plain glass until you get the knack . |
| 9 | So , whatever we do in training the horse , we have to teach on both sides : what it learns for one side , it will not automatically accept for the other . |
| 10 | People who have to exist on social security [ over a long period of time ] have a different set of values . |
| 11 | You have to die on other people 's terms , and that 's a bore , love them as you might . |
| 12 | would you like , would you like to hear what I have to say on that one Mr er do you want ? |
| 13 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |
| 14 | What is more surprising , when considering what advocates of testing have to say on this subject , is the lack of ideas on how such information could ever help schools . |
| 15 | My hypothesis is that the conditions of work are such that one mode of relating is that of schizoid withdrawal which means that individuals have to take on some of the characteristics just described . |
| 16 | For the moment we have to rely on intermittent subcutaneous injections which impose quite definite restrictions . |
| 17 | Even the largest oil corporations have to rely on external finance to develop new oil fields . |
| 18 | We have to rely on other resources , such as the network of informers that we have built up within the trade . |
| 19 | You can have the greatest ideas in the world for improving competitive edge , but you have to rely on other people to carry them out , from senior managers down to labourers . ’ |
| 20 | You have to rely on other things , other people . |
| 21 | The region is an important tier in allocating resources for health care but regional authorities have to rely on coarse-grained information such as death rates to decide the level of funding that should go to particular districts and services . |
| 22 | If they have not paid enough tax because they have not earned enough during their working lives , people have to rely on means-tested benefits when they retire . |
| 23 | In the real world … we have to rely on momentary impressions , third-party reports , interpretations of expressions and remarks , letters , faces in the crowd , inferences based on knowledge of our own feelings , to understand others . |
| 24 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 25 | If there are no explicit statements in the text itself about its date of composition , we have to rely on indirect evidence , such as the assumptions of the writer . |
| 26 | If you are dieting in the long term , you may need to take multi-vitamin/multi-mineral supplement ( e.g. Diet Balance ) — if you need to be on a weight-loss programme for more than 10 weeks , or if you have to rely on prepared reduced-calorie meals , and especially if you have any of the signs of vitamin or mineral deficiency . |
| 27 | The growth of the inter-bank market ( see below ) has meant that banks no longer have to rely on attracting deposits to cover their lending . |
| 28 | Lack of travel concessions are another area involving burdens for many pensioners who can not afford cars and have to rely on public transport . |
| 29 | Civilisations which pass on their learning and experience verbally have to rely on older citizens to provide the vital link between generations . |
| 30 | At present we have to rely on several sources of information , which sometimes overlap , and which definitely leave great gaps . |