Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] had to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed . |
| 2 | In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed . |
| 3 | Not even all Conservative politicians were happy with the implications of the notion of compulsory sales , particularly as they might affect rural areas , and certain safeguards have had to be incorporated . |
| 4 | In the past few years two academic posts have had to be frozen to keep the photographic collection and library funded . |
| 5 | Only small areas have had to be re-drilled because of flooding , although that can mean relatively large areas in some localities . |
| 6 | It should be borne in mind that there are always problems of definition and of classification in compiling figures such as these and also that all the figures for currencies other than the US dollar have had to be converted to dollars and hence depend upon the exchange rate used . |
| 7 | The Australians have had to be content with the second favourites slot in front of their home crowd . |
| 8 | The fact that the DME framework was not interoperable with other OSF founders ' Corba technologies has meant that some layers of DME have had to be re-designed and/or re-written using donated parts of Hewlett-Packard Co 's Distributed Object Management Facility and IBM 's System Object Model ( SOM ) . |
| 9 | The fact that the DME framework was not interoperable with other Software Foundation founders ' object broker technologies has meant that some layers of DME have had to be re-designed and/or re-written using donated parts of Hewlett-Packard 's Distributed Object Management Facility and IBM 's System Object Model . |
| 10 | Surrey managers said that many elderly day patients who would normally be carried by non-emergency crews have had to be readmitted to hospital in the past three months . |
| 11 | True , the men at City Hall admit , belts have had to be tightened since a recessionary squeeze in 1991 . |
| 12 | Pending the finalisation of the selection scheme additional applications have had to be made for approval of an interim scheme for entry in 1992/93 and a developed scheme for 1993/94 . |
| 13 | But exceptions have had to be made for words like prie-Dieu ( prayer-stool ) , which will remain without an x in the plural so as to avoid blasphemous implications . |
| 14 | It is now commonplace to say that the Thatcher governments have had to be highly interventionist in order to extend the market , increase the rights of consumers , and reduce producer power . |
| 15 | As you 've heard we 've been cutting costs pretty significantly over the last couple of years erm what we 're talking about is three thousand people having been er made redundant over the two and a half years and as we were saying earlier substantial redundancy costs have had to be borne . |
| 16 | They are also useful as a short term solution where a pair of fish have had to be split with one being housed in a smaller tank used , for example , as a hospital tank . |
| 17 | Since the building of the huge medieval tithe barns , constant changes in farming methods have meant that most farm buildings have had to be adapted to new uses or else demolished or simply abandoned to the elements . |
| 18 | Physical access to the building where Leisure Choice is based is difficult ; other buildings have had to be used for our meetings . |
| 19 | This has meant that questions have had to be asked . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the decision to sell Saatchi 's ailing business consultancy division has put additional strains on Saatchi management and a number of senior managers have had to be moved to new positions . |
| 21 | No wonder specialist media departments and even media buying businesses have had to be established , and a vast body of research into every aspect of media has been undertaken . |
| 22 | The Festivals at Brighton , Blackpool and the West Country Big Top have had to be cancelled due to lack of sponsorship . |
| 23 | At the time the first radiocarbon dates were calculated , the half-life was thought to be around 5,568 years , and so early dates have had to be corrected . |
| 24 | I 'm thinking particularly of the footpaths leading to and climbing up the side of Malham Cove , where artificial ways have had to be created to cope with erosion caused by millions of feet . |
| 25 | In addition to the cuts in its ground forces , some military orders have had to be postponed . |
| 26 | Erm that is an area where , that and road traffic accidents which has grown considerably in , in the time that I 've been in the service in more recent years , which has become more sophisticated , the equipment has become more sophisticated , the techniques have had to be developed to deal with them and firemen are becoming more expert in , in handling these er er situations with , with equipment er which is much more technical , and , and er |
| 27 | The Gospel Green wooden truckle ends have had to be replaced with pvc equivalents to satisfy current health standard requirements . |
| 28 | But major projects earmarked for the area have had to be put on ice . |
| 29 | At first the local farmers provided any bales of straw they had left , but in recent years the bales have had to be bought and transported from Selby . |
| 30 | Plummer , a bank manager in Camborne , commented : ‘ All sorts of arrangements have had to be made , which I thought would be difficult . |