Example sentences of "a [noun sg] to have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , for a child to have to sit and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day — it 's totally out of order , you know . |
| 2 | Still , it seems a shame to have to resort to such base practices . |
| 3 | It 's a shame to have to write that sort of thing into a contract , but you ca n't trust the buggers . ’ |
| 4 | She looked around at the bare , cheerless workshop , at the roughly made counter and the cold bare flags of the floor and shivered , what a place to have to work , even in her own reduced circumstances she was so much better placed than Hari Morgan . |
| 5 | It can come as a shock to have to buy every stamp , tube of toothpaste or bar of soap as well as to wash and press favourite clothes before going out , and to change and launder their own bed linen . |
| 6 | But at an individual le level as well if you want , but no not kind of just it 's not a commitment to have to go away and do something next week . |
| 7 | What a thing to have to do . |
| 8 | ‘ It certainly was a challenge to have to teach people stuff by Steve Vai or Yngwie Malmsteen , but the most difficult was Allan Holdsworth . |
| 9 | If the engagement lasts several days , like this festival , the first half drags ; I find it a strain to have to talk to people again , I 'm haunted by the inevitably unfinished ‘ finished ’ work at home . |
| 10 | At the same time they wanted to be able to increase their staffing as and when orders came along , and did not want to be in a position to have to refuse orders because they did not have the staff , or lose them because they could not promise fast enough delivery . |
| 11 | It is obviously wasteful nonsense for a district nurse needing a new dressing for a patient to have to return to the surgery , tell the doctor what is needed , possibly even draft the prescription for him , get the prescription dispensed by a pharmacist and then make a second visit to the patient to apply the dressing . ’ |
| 12 | Whereabouts in the model would damage cause a patient to have to rely on the non-lexical procedure for reading ? |
| 13 | And what a time to have to make the transition . |
| 14 | However , its founders , Larry and Doug Michels , are now said to be reluctant because the future is uncertain — it 's a heck of a time to have to start posting quarterly reports . |
| 15 | Now that 's a bit of a change for a recruiter to have to do that . |
| 16 | It is not reasonable to expect a tenant to have to accept construction works which may differ from those in the building documents and accordingly be less beneficial to the tenant than it may be expecting as a result of what the surveyors may be perceived to notice on an inspection . |
| 17 | Why , I asked , did he find it acceptable for an artist to have to put up with the paltry sums of money he offered when he himself lived in such style ? |