Example sentences of "have [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The machine does not need to know anything : it has to perform a task .
2 All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined .
3 Whatever we are supposed to understand by a ‘ person ’ we are to believe that educating him will not be directly related to the roles and tasks he has to perform after his education is over .
4 In competition a sailor has to perform a three minute routine , performing as many tricks as he can and linking them together with a smooth flowing act .
5 The underthread for the lockstitch is provided by the bobbin , and the needle thread has to perform a loop to go around the bobbin which is held in a bobbin case under a slide plate .
6 In industry the purpose of this process is to make work more interesting , through the restructuring of the components of a work role — either by increasing the number of operations that each worker has to perform or by making changes from one activity to another more frequent .
7 First , he applies it to the rites of purification which a warrior has to perform among , for example , the American Indian peoples of Natchez and the Pima , which involve the killer in being taboo for days , weeks or even months after the killing .
8 It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world .
9 Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery .
10 The tax system of any country has to perform several functions which are not always compatible .
11 For a generative grammar , the concurrent application of semantic processing can reject unlikely partial structures , thereby reducing the amount of processing the parser has to perform .
12 The capitalist state has to perform two essential but often contradictory functions .
13 Certain things are excluded from registration such as a method or principle of construction or features of shape or configuration dictated solely by the function the article has to perform , or which depend upon the appearance of another article of which it is intended to form an integral part .
14 If your appliance is dangerous , the engineer has to disconnect it by law .
15 The silicon ingots are highly perfect single crystals and on the atomic scale the cutting has to proceed through breaking bonds .
16 However , even though the general semantic content of a series of utterances may have been worked out , detailed semantic and syntactic planning still has to proceed .
17 For this he has to thank — or curse — Mr Glanville , a nineteenth century vicar of Sheviock .
18 Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool .
19 Everyone involved has to realize that the tasks are not relearned in an automatic sequence : the fact that the patient may be able to put on his sweater one day does not necessarily mean that he is immediately able to progress to putting on his trousers — indeed , he may have forgotten how to cope with the sweater the following day .
20 Yet the counsellor of older people has to realize that the blocks may not necessarily be those current in modern attitudes and beliefs .
21 I mean I must be honest , I did not feel that frightened erm it was n't an acute pain that that I mean I mean one of the things that one has to realize , you can become a heart attack bore .
22 I could not , in all conscience , advise anybody to embark on a commercial diving career at present , especially if that person has to borrow the money needed for the training .
23 The injustice to the home-owner is sometimes made worse by the fact that very often he has n't the money to pay for the repairs and has to borrow from the bank in order to pay the bill .
24 Fortunately , she has saved a large deposit to put down on a flat so she only has to borrow £45,000 .
25 Mr. Walker : I agree with the Hon. Gentleman that rising interest rates present problems , particularly for the farming community , which has to borrow heavily .
26 If it decides to replace the asset , it has to borrow again .
27 Well , it has to borrow rule six , that we were talking about just now .
28 To meet this deficit the government has to borrow money .
29 Teresa , whose accounting section has to liaise with both of them , has already paid the balance on a Far Eastern round trip taking in Hong Kong , Bangkok , Singapore , Bali , Jakarta , Brunei and Penang .
30 In its future strategy St William 's has to liaise with many existing institutions and agencies , at higher or lower levels .
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