Example sentences of "have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only passage I could find which could have referred to him was a section describing a debate during the LSE sit-in when the students were deciding whether to break down a pair of iron gates which lead to the bursar 's office . |
| 2 | IF ALGERNON Swinburne had been an able seaman he might have referred to the sea as ‘ the oggin ’ but certainly not as ‘ the great sweet mother ’ , which he did . |
| 3 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 4 | This must have referred to Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Ibbetson junior . |
| 5 | In the overview of the provisions of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill 1992 , which appeared in ACCOUNTANCY 's December 1992 issue ( see p 128 ) , the reference under Wages Councils to the repeal of Part II of the Wages Act 1980 should have referred to the repeal of Part II of the Wages Act 1986 . |
| 6 | However , when the message did not allow unambiguous identification but instead could have referred to one of two items in the array , the number of shifts almost doubled in number . |
| 7 | I should have referred to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , West ( Mr. Douglas ) , who comes from Govan . |
| 8 | Otherwise , he would never have referred to the only point upon which he and his advisors were at odds . |
| 9 | Firstly , there are the so-called pronouns of laziness ( Geach , 1962 : 125ff ) , as in Karttunen 's well-known sentence ( see Lyons , 1977a : 673ff ) : ( 93 ) The man who gave his paycheck to his wife was wiser than the man who gave it to his mistress where it is not co-referential with his paycheck , but refers to what a repetition of that NP would have referred to ( namely the paycheck of the man whose mistress got it ) if it had occurred in place of it . |
| 10 | Leith asked , unable in her constant nagging worry about the mortgage to resist the hope that he might have referred to it , and given some indication of what he intended to do about repaying his half . |
| 11 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 12 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 13 | The commission suggests that anyone over 18 who has contributed to the cost of the property he or she occupies should have to agree to its sale . |
| 14 | Nor does the girl have to agree to anything I ask . |
| 15 | Teachers would have to agree to unlimited teaching hours and weekend and bank holiday working . |
| 16 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 17 | Q. Does the Committee have to agree to the work to be done , and its priority ? |
| 18 | The seller does not have to agree to this and if he does , that will not normally affect the operation of section 20 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm afraid they 'll have to agree to a change of day , or it 'll be cancelled . |
| 20 | I ca n't play that sort of trick on him — besides , I 'd only have to agree to another date . ’ |
| 21 | In order to lock into today 's low rates potential borrowers will have to agree to marginally higher rates than are really current . |
| 22 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |
| 23 | She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any . |
| 24 | A huge £50 million has been raised for charity since the race started in 1981 and runners can pat themselves on the back for all the financial help they have given to worthy causes . |
| 25 | It was not an answer he would have given to many people , but he looked on Edna as an equal . |
| 26 | On occasions when talking about the case , I have been asked what advice I would have given to Profumo . |
| 27 | Had he done that — and this is advice every sensible lawyer would have given to him — he might have been able to return to public life without the long and painful period of atonement to which he was exposed . |
| 28 | It may have been enacted beforehand by the witnesses , so that they testify to what they have actually witnessed ; alternatively , the organiser of the mock trial may simply have given to each witness a statement of his evidence , which he is expected to remember . |
| 29 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 30 | It will frequently be necessary for it to know whether the employee was being advised at any material time and , if so , by whom ; of the extent of the advisers ' knowledge of the facts of the employee 's case ; and of the nature of any advice which they may have given to him . |