Example sentences of "[conj] [det] has [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 erm That seems to me a little bit odd that that has to be put on twice to the erm exclusion of other programmes .
2 A further $21.8 million a year may be raised through a special local tax , although this has to be approved by voters .
3 Basically they can add or subtract , and anything more complicated than this has to be achieved by breaking down the more elaborate procedures down to a sometimes large number of successive steps .
4 My view is that this has to be negotiated with them and I would be very loathe for us to start imposing erm
5 It 's the suicidal greatness of America , I think Annabel means , to have raised opportunism to such a point that even people who would n't dream of ditching anything else feel that this has to be plucked out .
6 However , most economists ( and possibly politicians ) do accept that some form of control is required , and that this has to be exercised within one of the alternative frameworks .
7 I 'm too weak to write much , so this has to be brief .
8 Now look here , you trembling ridiculous creature , listen to me , nothing may happen and that has to be OK too .
9 It imposes on us the belief that it is wrong to steal or to commit murder — and that has to be a good thing .
10 The long history of the game maya suggest that better players should use stiffer clubs and that has to be taken seriously .
11 The intonation on your guitar has got to be perfect , because you 're fretting strings behind the glass and that has to be just right .
12 What 's good about the debating is that people are talking about the rights and wrongs of bolting as a practice — and that has to be welcomed .
13 And that has to be good news for backpackers keen to shave pounds off the weight in their rucksacks .
14 Most of those who have studied the twentieth-century constitution have ceased to see it as a living , moving thing that has to be studied historically , that has to be studied in relation to interests and political forces , and that has to be understood within the context of larger developments within society and economy .
15 ‘ The car is going to have to be completely re-built afterwards and that has to be taken into account in the total cost , ’ he says .
16 Selecting what to look for is very important , and that has to be decided in advance .
17 Composite nine is about putting young people back to work and that has to be a priority in a year which has seen youth unemployment hit the one million mark .
18 And that has to be maintained in the future .
19 No we do n't , erm we in principle obviously we are in favour of er there being some form of compensation scheme and that has to be regarded as erm a step forward , er it would be better if er whatever compensation scheme is gon na be introduced was introduced now and the committee recommended and not in nineteen ninety-six or whenever it may be that the legislation is enacted .
20 Yeah it 's about time it were shaken up now that Labour Party er this government er , erm they 're agreeing to this , this has to be done and that has to be done you put notices up on buses all over Britain no smoking in the buses , now in the big restaurants they 're going to have to between now and July put notices up , no smoking in restaurants
21 The rate at which the angle is changed must depend on the speed at the time , and this has to be judged because there is insufficient time to check the ASI .
22 We can not deny the reality of biblical scholarship and this has to be expressed clearly .
23 Its branches fork from an implanted bud just above ground level and normally make 2–4ft ( 0.6–1.2m ) high , although — and this has to be said — too often encouraged by incorrect and only partial pruning that permits new growth to break not from near ground level but from 1ft ( 0.3m ) , 2ft ( 0.6m ) , or even higher , they are frequently to be seen consisting of younger bloom bearing growth on top of old barky stems , the whole reaching 5ft ( 1.5m ) , even 6ft ( 1.8m ) , or more in height .
24 After all , to write a sensible story about , say , a Viking voyage , involves considerable background knowledge , and this has to be obtained from somewhere .
25 Whether this ethic is actually held by the individual peasants concerned is irrelevant ; presumably they would be unable to specify the grounds for their own actions in this way , but what matters is that their behaviour actually appears to follow this rule , and this has to be sufficient explanation .
26 If individuals are motivated by self-interest , then they have no incentive to acquire information , and this has to be supplied by the political parties and other interested organizations .
27 If this has to be done it must be ( for technical reasons ) within three years of his father 's death — by 30 May 1977 .
28 If this has to be conceded , the other side 's bargaining position is greatly strengthened .
29 Vice-President Virgilio Godoy stated that the murder , which was seen as a setback for the attempt of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro to promote national reconciliation , should not go unpunished and would have to be solved " even if this has to be done outside government institutions " .
30 A further possible way of reconciling the two accounts is to say that both express important elements in kin relations , but each has to be modified with reference to the other .
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