Example sentences of "having [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 2 | Shaw was facing the prospect of having to retire from football , after he suffered a serious cruciate injury in only his second game for Conference side Runcorn at the beginning of last season . |
| 3 | Shaw was facing the prospect of having to retire from football , after he suffered a serious cruciate injury in only his second game for Conference side Runcorn at the beginning of last season . |
| 4 | Oxford , after the War and after national service and in spite of the minor irritation of having to carry into Hall private rations of butter and sugar , was a place of freedom . |
| 5 | The feat was marked by a drain bursting under the pitch soon after play began and flooding one of the run-ups ; inevitably , the umpire concerned was ‘ Dickie ’ Bird , famed for his wariness about the weather , and now having to contend with water coming from below as well as above . |
| 6 | The 39-year-old Scot , despite having to contend with hay fever and a heavy cold , kept Ian Woosnam , Paul Broadhurst and Johan Rystrom at bay to move up to sixth place in the Ryder Cup points list . |
| 7 | The winches could then be run instantly without having to wait for steam to be available . |
| 8 | Somehow the sight of this touched Ianthe , who had never herself been in the position of having to wait till pay-day . |
| 9 | ‘ And the trapping of having to go on radio stations and saying , ‘ Hi , how are ya doin' ? ’ and all that sort of press … ’ moans Ian . |
| 10 | Fewer people were coming forward to take jobs because they did n't like having to go to school . |
| 11 | He also mentioned the work of the Centre for Dispute Resolution — a way of resolving disputes on a whole range of issues that avoids people having to go to court . |
| 12 | What I what I 'd really hope for is to be able to do it without having to go to college and just do it by experience but that 's I 'd have to be awful awful good . |
| 13 | minor surgery available on your doctor 's own premises , to save having to go to hospital ; |
| 14 | Imagine not having to go into work every day . |
| 15 | " When I came out of the office I think I said something casually about old Mr. Lorrimer not having to go into hospital after all . |
| 16 | I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college . |
| 17 | My Lord , the number will be a great many , primary schools teachers are of course spe er generalists not specialists and a primary school teacher with only religious education as a specialism would be disadvantaged quite seriously in having to cope with teaching maths and English and science and history , geography , art and music and so on . |
| 18 | HEALTH chiefs in Aberconwy have issued hygiene advice to flood victims who may be having to cope with flood-water contaminated with sewage . |
| 19 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 20 | Yesterday 's annual meeting of the Foreign & Colonial heard how Fiona decided to invest in shares through a savings scheme because they will provide inflation-proofing without her having to worry about investment timing . |
| 21 | The development tools allow programmers to concentrate their efforts on the finer points of the program without having to worry about compatibility problems . |
| 22 | It felt good sitting there with the oxygen mask off and not having to worry about flak . |
| 23 | Costless mobility implies that there are no work problems , i.e. that households can move without having to obtain alternative jobs or without having to worry about transport costs to their place of work . |
| 24 | Macmillan was thus able to pursue his own policies during his second term in office rather than having to concentrate on damage limitation forced upon him by Anthony Eden 's Suez disaster . |
| 25 | I wondered how these men had managed to endure thirty or more trips in what must have been far worse conditions than this ; in bad weather , being shot at , having to concentrate on map reading and peering through bomb sites , and watching out all the time for enemy fighters . |
| 26 | I also welcome Amendment twenty-seven which sets out plans for the appointment by the Secretary of State for members of authorities which will have sanction of having to come before Parliament before accepted and I think that again is extremely important . |
| 27 | He told us he dreaded having to stand in line in the airport while people giggled and pointed . |
| 28 | We thus had what Sorge et al. termed a polarised and differentiated system ( 1983 , 162 ) with the shop-floor and direct production functions having to relate to management supervision , maintenance , preparatory and planning functions , and technical design and development , who each gave instructions and advice from their staff positions . |
| 29 | And we 're really having to struggle to sort of make ends meet . |
| 30 | Novell Inc has upgraded NetWare Lite for MS-DOS and Windows 1.1 by improving Windows support : users can now run NetWare Lite and Windows concurrently , and can manage the network from within Windows , rather than having to exit to MS-DOS for their network management . |