Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a series [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 2 | An account of the development of behaviour within an individual would have to mention a series of environmental influences on gene expression . |
| 3 | Braque , on the other hand , has used Cézanne 's technique of opening up the contours of objects , so that in his paintings the eye slips inwards and upwards from plane to plane without having to make a series of abrupt transitions or adjustments . |
| 4 | ‘ It is better for us to say we are going to have to institute a series of strict priorities . |
| 5 | It was n't enough for him to have to learn a series of speeches that no one else was expected to begin to comprehend , but he was also deputed to be Dame Edith 's guardian angel . |
| 6 | But first they had to play a series of odd games , working out the rules for each one in turn , playing each one to a conclusion , without cheating or colluding . |
| 7 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 8 | To reach Madame de Rochefort 's suite , they had to traverse a series of other rooms , most of them shuttered to exclude the sun . |
| 9 | Building materials now have to satisfy a series of EC requirements relating to safety , hygiene , the environment and energy efficiency . |
| 10 | You have to have a series of watertight rules and regulations . |