Example sentences of "he has [verb] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then all he has to do is to press one digit , and the number is automatically dialled for him . |
| 2 | All he has to do is talk to the Whips , and we will have a debate on sport any time he likes . |
| 3 | All he has to do is drink a bottle a day , and he can skip lunch , keep late hours , loll around in his soft leather chair . |
| 4 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 5 | All he has to do is show he 's over a certain age can prove who he is , you can buy a gun . |
| 6 | All he has to do is to tell one person and then everyone in the Castle will know , from the Chief Secretary down . |
| 7 | If the Minister does not consider it worth while , all he has to do is call it in and either have a public inquiry or decide for himself whether it is a good scheme . |
| 8 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 9 | All he has to do is fill in the person 's name . |
| 10 | According to the apprentice chef , the Royal Oak is a good place to learn one 's trade — ‘ Chef knows what he 's doing and is prepared to help you , but he does n't push you too hard ’ — though the commis chef criticizes Tom for not being adventurous enough — ‘ He reckons all he has to do is to keep on producing good plain food and the customers 'll keep coming , but the fact is that it 's dull . ’ |
| 11 | the reason I propose giving he has to do is come |
| 12 | All he has done is to show , in a crude way , that , in order to increase the market value of the firm , one needs to identify opportunities where actual returns exceed those required for the risk involved ! |
| 13 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 14 | What he has done is to supply himself with a ridiculous experience by the telling of which he could entertain several hundred people , without having to undergo the dispiriting strain of suffering it first . |
| 15 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 16 | What he has learned is to bring any incipient conflict out into the open . |