Example sentences of "has [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tax system of any country has to perform several functions which are not always compatible . |
| 2 | HOT Canada Ice Desalinated iceberg water — in the shops now Buying East German Hurry , hurry , while stocks last — one fifth has to go Tequila-flavoured lollipops Lick every bit — even the maggot Bobble hats and berets Essential headgear for the winter Sex as an ice cream substitute Yum , yum Dustin Hoffman Makes his gangster debut in Billy Bathgate Organic fruit juices The scam is only just beginning Barry Manilow The icon of trash culture on tour Kane toads The real thing . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals he has to enable local education authorities to improve the fabric of school buildings . |
| 4 | Only two outsiders are permitted to eat from the kitchen — the governor , who has to sample one meal every day to be able to answer any complaints the following day , and the doctor , who tastes the food two or three times a week to ensure that it is balanced and nutritious . |
| 5 | To gain access to her he has to penetrate many layers of permeability . |
| 6 | the person that has to implement these things they do n't and I said |
| 7 | Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned . |
| 8 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 9 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
| 10 | In order to invest abroad he first has to acquire foreign currency ( i.e. foreign exchange ) , which can then be used to purchase overseas bonds and shares . |
| 11 | The WRU has to arrange such matches — the more the better so that the selectors can see up-and-coming players in the proper environment . |
| 12 | One has to acknowledge that homelessness is not merely a housing problem but is also a social problem , which requires not merely money but an approach to discourage and prevent young people from becoming homeless . |
| 13 | Each team has to create its own routine which has to include mandatory starburst , jumping jacks , domino sequence and freezing techniques . |
| 14 | The supercilious surgeon becomes a patient and has to suffer bureaucratic confusion , overcrowded waiting rooms and unnecessary procedures — just like everyone else . |
| 15 | ‘ He has to suffer constant insults and talk from people in the neighbourhood and children and threats from some of the older relatives of children . ’ |
| 16 | The whole of Havant 's operation has been spun off as a separate business , so Wilkie has to find outside customers for the plant 's mix of personal computer and mid-range disk drives ; integrated disk subsystems and ‘ flexible circuitry ’ expertise ( those plastic straps bearing solder tracks found when opening up a personal computer or disk drive ) . |
| 17 | So she has to find another way of providing music for the midnight service . |
| 18 | Electric windows and mirrors , central locking , rear heating , rear wash/wipe and a tilt wheel are on all models , but today 's hard-pressed executive has to find another £701 for a sunroof and £1,092 for air conditioning . |
| 19 | I wonder if she has yet worked out that for every douse she has to pull less load ; probably not , or she would be pissing on the wood . |
| 20 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 21 | It has to contain organic matter , which is at once the moisture-retentive component and the source of plant nutrient as it decomposes to its simple chemical components . |
| 22 | It is the haven , therefore , for the bacteria that perform the decomposition process — they need air , and we can say that , in order to be fertile and support our roses , the soil has to contain organic matter , moisture , air and bacteria . |
| 23 | If a single advert produces 500 replies — the example of construction recruitment in The Sun , again — the recruitment team has to write 1500 letters . |
| 24 | To accomplish this , the spirit has to wander old cemeteries until it finds a human skull , put it on its head and then turn to the North Star . |
| 25 | The politics of the situation probably means that it has to be sensitive to the traditional concerns of the governments themselves but it also has to provide strong arguments for deviations from generally accepted accounting principles for business . |
| 26 | According to the latter system each country is given a number of votes in relation to its size and to gain a majority a proposal has to obtain fifty-four votes out of a total of seventy-six and be approved by at least eight member states . |
| 27 | The child has to pass various stages of age-groupings with a system of education defined for every status in life . |
| 28 | An alternative is a licensed conveyancer ; a fully-trained specialist who has to pass professional exams . |
| 29 | Silvia has to pass those exams of hers . |
| 30 | In the Sahel a couple has to bear 10 children to be 95% certain of producing a son who will survive to the age of 38 . |