Example sentences of "having [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 2 | The demands of running the company today always seem paramount , and have the added advantage that one is working from one 's direct experience and not having to indulge in the extremely difficult and risky business of projecting into the future . |
| 3 | Any petty misdemeanour resulted in the offender having to report to the Corporal of the day with his entrenching tool after evening ‘ appel ’ . |
| 4 | Referring to IBM 's establishment of a PC standard in 1981 , he said that other manufacturers were selling cars without having to invest in the highway . |
| 5 | The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd better go in anyway or we 'll end up having to sit in the shade for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 7 | If effective civil and political citizenship were to be enjoyed in Britain , then the citizen must be emancipated from the obsessive secrecy of government and the extraordinarily clumsy device of having to appeal for the protection of his or her rights to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 8 | Such untimely celebrity death provides our nice clean ending and saves us having to contend with the natural processes of ageing and decay , for some reason considered more horrific and obscene than going out with a bang . |
| 9 | For example , you may ignore her persistent whining for attention after one constructive attempt to distract her by suggesting a pleasant and diverting activity ( after all , you re having to see to the baby ) . |
| 10 | Similarly , Message Queue Interface should improve the efficiency with which loosely coupled systems work : travel agents , for example should be able to request flight information from one system and get straight on filling in other details without having to wait for the remote system to respond . |
| 11 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 12 | Any emergencies can now be dealt with without having to wait until the next day . |
| 13 | But having to wait until the 80th minute to score , is n't good in my books . |
| 14 | As much as he complains about having to frolic through the clichés of his life , he is quite happy to encourage it . |
| 15 | Ideally , to be honest I would like a diamorphine maintenance course , but I do n't know if that 's possible these days to pick up a prescription once or twice a week and be able to do it that way instead of having the hassle of having to go on the street . |
| 16 | And the others do n't care either , only Hoomey , because of his Bones having to go to the knacker 's . ’ |
| 17 | A journal called Current Contents : Social and Behavioural Sciences brings together the contents pages of the most recently published journals , but a range of indexing and abstracting journals can be used to find out about the contents of journals without having to go to the journals themselves . |
| 18 | That early hour also avoided having to go to the schools to take children , an action which had caused such controversy in November 1990 . |
| 19 | One of the most enduring memories is of the Labour Government having to go to the International Monetary Fund , ‘ cap in hand ’ , to ask for a loan to prop up the UK 's sagging economy . |
| 20 | And we had erm we , there was a few changes during that time , we used to get troops coming in and occupying the classroom , and we maybe , at the very early days I can remember having to go to the Street School and also the Street Hall which belong that was a church hall . |
| 21 | Claydon has made no secret of the fact that his immediate goal is to win enough to secure a Tour Card for 1990 without having to go to the Qualifying School at La Manga . |
| 22 | Depositors are issued with cheque books which enable them to spend the money directly without first having to go to the bank and draw the money out in cash . |
| 23 | ‘ He was speaking to himself rather than to me at the time , but I recall Jeff muttering under his breath something about having to go to the mainland soon … ’ |
| 24 | Having to go to the end of the road , well it 's daft now . |
| 25 | right we 'll get back here then and , not having to go to the post office now will be a help cos that really is the other end of town in n it ? |
| 26 | It 's where to pay to money , and you 're having to go to the bank manager , what would he ask for ? the business plan , and you 'd have to draw that up and do all the and you have to impress the bank manager before he will even consider an overdraft facility , or whatever , a loan . |
| 27 | And Mrs Richmond having to go into the hospital ’ — it seemed to Gilly that there was a long , thoughtful pause before the caseworker went on — ‘ for her nerves . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Can we get to the Cove without having to go into the garden ? ’ he asked . |
| 29 | the weeds are coming up and I 'm having to go under the ground cover and get them . |
| 30 | GCCS made particularly good progress breaking the Japanese naval attaché cipher traffic , both in London and elsewhere in Europe , since many foreign cable companies routed their signals through repeater stations in places like Malta where GCCS could acquire all interesting traffic without having to go through the charade of obtaining a warrant . |