Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all find ourselves in a situation at some time where we have to carry a very heavy suitcase , or where a parcel has been delivered and has to be lifted into the house . |
| 2 | It is with regret , however , that I have to report a very negative stance by the British Mountaineering Council to our association , and their outright refusal to recognise it . |
| 3 | Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast . |
| 4 | To justify that , people have to set a very high price on the environmental costs of landfill . |
| 5 | To collect their food , they have to use a completely different set of strategies . |
| 6 | Beyond that the angles involved become just too small to be measured and we have to use a quite different kind of technique which involves knowing something about the properties of the objects we 're looking at . |
| 7 | It would be lovely to have the most expensive of everything at your reception , but we are only too aware that most people planning a wedding have to run a pretty tight budget . |
| 8 | I think what we have got to bear in mind , Mr Chairman , is that the small business is , it is a very , very dangerous time as we come out of recession , more businesses get into difficulties when they 're into expanding , than when they 're just , just surviving , if you like so erm , I think we have to keep a very careful eye on the next six months . |
| 9 | The only thing is that the VIP treatment ( with ritual speeches , etc. ) sometimes gets a bit wearing and we sometimes have to keep a very straight face when the same political points are made to us over and over again by this or that party cadre when we go on official visits . |
| 10 | ‘ We have to adopt a really attacking policy and give it our best shot , ’ declared Roxburgh , who has recalled creative players in Celtic 's Paul McStay and John Collins along with Rangers skipper Richard Gough . |
| 11 | This is the so-called ‘ poverty-trap ’ of the lower paid : a small increase in earning takes them over a threshold , whereby they may lose certain welfare benefits and at the same time have to pay a disproportionately large increase in tax on their original income . |
| 12 | Again , such subjects typically have to develop a more ‘ scholarly ’ , conceptual or abstract side in order to gain admittance to and status within the academic fold , although to some extent they can isolate themselves from other faculties and departments — art and design in the polytechnics and colleges often seem to be states within a state , enjoying an autonomy underpinned by their separate location on inherited art college sites . |
| 13 | I have a whole wide range : black suede pumps , black boots with low heels — I have to have a pretty low heel . |
| 14 | Means they have to have a very strong signal . ’ |
| 15 | You have to have a very experienced driver . |
| 16 | Not only that but you have to have a much stronger body . |
| 17 | We have to have a far greater tolerance of difference and a far greater respect for differences of view . |
| 18 | Business men who are borrowers naturally want lower interest rates , but I am afraid that the Government have to take a rather broader view of what is in the interests of the economy . |
| 19 | J.S. They had n't got one , beyond saying you have to take a more holistic attitude , but what does that mean ? |
| 20 | I have to explain a little about this . |
| 21 | But the NZRFU will now , having made such strong demands of South Africa , have to undertake a similarly intense drug-screening process in New Zealand . |
| 22 | This will mean you have to steer a slightly bowed course to discourage others from passing to windward . |
| 23 | She would ‘ have to make a very special effort ’ to build the links with other professionals — GPs , the police , consultants and others on which she had barely had time to start in the five months she was there . |
| 24 | The diamond design shown in the opposite photograph is really an adaptation of the solid design ( see pp. 80–1 ) , although in this case you have to make a very definite outline with the leaves and then ensure that it is echoed in the shape that the flowers make in the centre of the design . |
| 25 | You have to dig a little deeper to find the dedication , but it 's there |
| 26 | I suppose you 're hoping for good digging weather because you have to dig a fairly big hole to put a tree in it , do n't you ? |