Example sentences of "has [to-vb] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even at night time the chronic itching is no better and Graham has to wear a specially made sleep suit which covers his entire body , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 2 | In order to prevent a drain of young English cricketers to South Africa during the winter , the TCCB has to provide a suitably well-rewarded alternative and it is in this area that Subba Row 's successor will need to shine . |
| 3 | First , though , one has to obtain a very thin section of the rock , thin enough to be translucent . |
| 4 | A true friend of the earth has to flirt a little with the earthlings . |
| 5 | But he has to behave a little badly . |
| 6 | Conversely with a low gear ratio the effective load inertia is high and the motor accelerates slowly , but has to reach a relatively low stepping rate to move the load at a satisfactory speed . |
| 7 | Often he has to interpret a badly worded question , with no hope of redress if his guess as to the examiner 's meaning should turn out to be wrong . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what proposals he has to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources for the social fund . |
| 9 | This is because capital gain on the whole value of the house accrues to the owner , whereas he only has to repay a relatively small proportion of the mortgage each year . |
| 10 | In the Dusun language every clause has to have a grammatically marked topic ( i.e. the person or thing about which something is said ) , which is determined by the larger context ( at discourse level ) . |
| 11 | The liver to do that work has to have a very very good supply of oxygen . |
| 12 | Pound appears the most crucial case , at least among poets writing in English , of those whose poetry — for those who value it — has to survive a self-evidently and perilously wrong understanding of history , and hence of politics . |
| 13 | To cope with this , the father has to take a very active part in housekeeping and child-rearing , violating traditional conceptions of gender roles . |
| 14 | ‘ The public interest has to take a much wider view than that . ’ |