Example sentences of "[conj] have [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 2 | Queueing or having to wait in shops is disliked ; so are certain kinds of shops — in some the large supermarket , and in some the small corner shop . |
| 3 | The boredom was broken only by bayoneting rats , bailing more water out of the trench or having to listen to Tommy repeat the same old melodies on a now rusty mouth-organ . |
| 4 | By fundamental barriers we mean those difficulties , which usually arise from a person 's personal circumstances such as lack of money or having to look after dependants . |
| 5 | She then tested his creativity by asking him to write down all the things he could do with various objects such as a brick or a shoe , and all the things that would happen if certain events suddenly occurred , such as everyone in the world losing their sight or having to walk on all fours . |
| 6 | Is it having people looking at you or having to speak to a large crowd when you have never done that before ? |
| 7 | Whether or not horses understand landing procedure ( they do n't smoke or have to cope with seat-belts ) , it occurred to me that we had taken a couple of bites at the cherry on our approach — I could only guess how near we came to dismantling the gateway to India , for there are no windows in those vehicles . |
| 8 | I should mention that if for any reason we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 9 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 10 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 11 | These symptoms were present most of the time , but became much worse if Sheila drove the car , used certain aerosol sprays , or had to sit in the same room as someone wearing perfume or aftershave . |
| 12 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 13 | The plane might have been forced down by fighters or other enemy action , or had to land for some other reason , and we do n't know whether the men were able to get away all right or not . |
| 14 | The other main obstacle in the way of enjoyment is Aviemore , but unless you need to buy some chips , or have to come by train then you can just close your eyes as you pass by it . |
| 15 | Ball was the first amateur and the first Englishman to win the Open , at Prestwick in 1890 , but the kind of loving research that has to go into books of this type invariably makes fascinating reading . |
| 16 | ‘ Be careful not to wake the crowd that has to go to school in the morning . ’ |
| 17 | The only kind of entity that has to exist in order for life to arise , anywhere in the universe , is the immortal replicator . |
| 18 | I feel they are rooted in something that has to do with culture , with a sense of history , a sense of past , a sense of tradition . |
| 19 | The word ‘ jargon ’ , according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary , comes from an Old French root that has to do with the warbling of birds . |
| 20 | The Labour Party is in favour of that element of the " Westminster Model " that has to do with single-party government grounded in secure majorities in the House of Commons and it is , in consequence , opposed to proportional representation . |
| 21 | Aim at learning vocabulary that has to do with basic living needs , such as shopping , getting directions and using public transport , arithmetic for handling money , greetings and leave-takings , introductions , polite phrases , expressions of appreciation , how to use the telephone . |
| 22 | We might say that the Nun 's Priest represents a human character standing at the intersection of various areas of human activity and experience mirrored within the text , and that the important attributes of the construct that this character is are not least life and humanity themselves ; the real individual and communal life that has to compromise between animalistic anarchy ( i.e. the fabliau world ? — cf. |
| 23 | I do not see Hoffman 's hesitancies of speech , his throatbound voice that has to struggle past a colony of frogs , his eyes that crouch nervously in their sockets , as a proof of consequential ratiocination going on inside his head . |
| 24 | But the experts say that has to start with the teenage nation . |
| 25 | rather than having to move out the way |
| 26 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 27 | An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets . |
| 28 | Novell Inc has upgraded NetWare Lite for MS-DOS and Windows 1.1 by improving Windows support : users can now run NetWare Lite and Windows concurrently , and can manage the network from within Windows , rather than having to exit to MS-DOS for their network management . |
| 29 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 30 | You can then concentrate much more effectively on dealing with the wound , rather than having to battle with your dog in order to help it . |