Example sentences of "having [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that you do n't get the good views of the Cove until you 've reached Malham Beck , but I think that it 's better doing the walk this way round than going at it clockwise and having to clamber down the scar . |
| 2 | She wished her parents lived in the Aran Islands and that there could be no question of her having to go home every night . |
| 3 | The ITA was simultaneously having to work out the details of its own role ; formulate rules that met the legislation 's requirements for quality , balance and so on , some of which — about imported American programmes , say — would affect the companies ' finances ; and ensure both that there was proper competition for the franchises , yet that the operation did not collapse through mismanagement or financial miscalculation . |
| 4 | I just wish we could do the things we want without having to worry where the money is coming from . ’ |
| 5 | This is a tape which prints out the information from the till and eliminates the old system of having to write out an individual docket for every transaction . |
| 6 | In Bassetlaw the care manager for mental health is on maternity leave and the existing social work team is having to try out the new procedures . |
| 7 | Proper notice through registry recordings can be accomplished without having to set up a universal or central registry . |
| 8 | An EC life insurer can now provide insurance in other member states without having to set up a branch or agency in those other states , according to the Insurance Companies ( Amendment ) Regulations 1993 which came into force on 20 May 1993 , giving effect to the Second Life Insurance Directive ( 90/619/EEC ) of 8 November 1990 . |
| 9 | He 's having to pick up the equivalent of |
| 10 | Their figures for the incidence of the various diseases are fairly accurate , every doctor having to fill in a form listing the number of cases of communicable disease seen each week ; however , as elsewhere , the minor sexually transmitted diseases are not included . |
| 11 | Secondly , people will be paid automatically without having to fill in a claim form or other kind of document . |
| 12 | Yeah I mean you can guess it from the clue without having to fill in the crossword . |
| 13 | A party , can present a list without having to put up a candidate in every or indeed in any constituency . |
| 14 | John had advised him to transfer from Rome airport to the railway station to avoid a five hour wait at Rome , but oh ! no ! big boots insisted on flying , although the late flight from Rome is notorious — and , of course , just after John had left for Naples airport , having to do quite a lot of the journey on foot , as late evening buses stop at a given time on Public Holidays , rang to say that Alitalia was alleging weather problems at Naples and so the passengers would be transferred by coach arriving at 2am . |
| 15 | Within two years of starting my apprenticeship I was having to do roughly a man 's work , but my wages were only half a crown a week . |
| 16 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 17 | There are feelings of anger and resentment at being singled out by the disease , at being unable to achieve the control one fought so hard to obtain , at being forced to accept defeat , at being forced towards recovery by the sheer weight of consequences and sometimes by the final threats of others who have at last truly come to the end of their patience and understanding , at having to give up the " trusted friend " , at having to face up to issues one most wanted to forget and at having to make an inventory , admit one 's wrongs and make amends . |
| 18 | He had never got over having to give up the shop , caused as much by growing bronchial problems as by falling business . |
| 19 | It gets a bi it gives her one less to , er it 's quite traumatic having to give out the news . |
| 20 | I have no recollection of how I found my way there in the dark , but I do remember having to knock up the concièrge , who grumbled in just the style portrayed in the cinema . |
| 21 | Instead of people having to read up the words in a dictionary it 's gon na be a sound dictionary . |
| 22 | Business cards also serve the function of not having to memorise instantaneously the names and positions of one 's business counterparts and they provide a record for future reference . |
| 23 | Having to get up every morning … you think ‘ Oh heck I 've go to do the place today , and I 've got to do the dinner ’ — that 's something I ca n't stand , thinking I 've got to do the dinner . |
| 24 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 25 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 26 | She says the worst thing she can remember was the outside loo and having to get out a lantern if you wanted to go in the night and go out there with all the cobwebs and strange shadows . |
| 27 | He also objected to having to tone down a description of the 1937 Rape of Nanking , when Japanese troops went on the rampage , killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners . |
| 28 | Dr Robert Spink , Tory MP for Castle Point , said that Charles should be defending those in this country having to pay out an extra £16 a week per family to subsidise the French farmers . |
| 29 | Meredith lowered her head to hide the fact that she was having to swallow away the dryness in her throat . |
| 30 | Being with young children , Molly thought desperately , is like having to take out a geriatric , or a drunk . |