Example sentences of "have [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.

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1 AN Oxford student has plunged to his death after a late-night drink and drugs party .
2 The quality of those crosses was nt up to much most of the time — but some credit has to go to their keeper who was taking everything within 12–13 yards of his line …
3 Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times .
4 In that narrow sense , Reagan was right when he insisted at his testimony , as on every previous occasion , that ‘ no-one has proven to me that there was a diversion . ’
5 Since the 1970s , in common with the rest of the industrial world , it has fallen to its lowest level ever recorded .
6 Underlying earnings growth has fallen to its lowest level for almost 25 years and economy-wide productivity has increased , helping push non-oil exports to record levels .
7 In the UK , beer production has fallen to its lowest level for 20 years and distilling production has been cut back dramatically .
8 The inflation rate has fallen to its lowest in twenty-five years to stand at one point seven per cent .
9 Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for almost a year .
10 And opinion polls show the number of voters satisfied with the Government 's management of the country has fallen to its lowest level since November 1990 .
11 ‘ It looks at the moment as if she has fallen to her death , ’ a spokesman told TODAY .
12 The waistline on bikini bottoms has been pulled up while the usual high leg cut has fallen to something less severe .
13 The main work-load on programming , the implementation of change and steering through the necessary mass of procedures and consultation to successful conclusion has fallen to my department 's team leaders , and in particular to Ruth in Personnel and training .
14 The Neurocranker — an elite class competition climber with a body and brain augmented by medical and computer technology — has fallen to his death from a competition climbing wall 5,000 metres above Tokyo .
15 A patient has fallen to his death from a window of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon .
16 A monument he has erected to his wife ( née Brobity ) is more of an encomium upon his own virtues than upon hers ; his father .
17 When the capital stock has adjusted to its new steady-state level , the rise in the gross rate of return is just enough to offset the tax , and it is the wage rate that is reduced .
18 Tim Mackie has explained to me that the organisation has been so successful gathering together items of rolling stock , track and equipment that there are not enough members available to operate trains and work on the infrastructure at the same time .
19 Lady Merstam has explained to me her lifelong desire to protect your reputation , Mrs Copley , and I fully understand your own wish to protect your husband from information which would , a … hurt him .
20 He has n't talked to me since , but Violet tells me she has explained to him that ‘ some people are funny about dogs ’ .
21 ‘ I expect Alice has explained to you about that , ’ he mumbled .
22 Most Christians , if asked about their faith , would include in their explanation the simple joy and happiness that faith has given to them .
23 The Führer has given to me the honour of organizing the conference and , of course , responsibility for his safety .
24 But you see it only becomes my experience as I exercise the faith that God has given to me .
25 The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit
26 I would like to thank for the enthusiasm and commitment she has given to her ante-natal classes and I know that past ‘ students ’ will have been greatly reassured during their pregnancies by , appreciated her teaching and enjoyed her sense of humour .
27 Adam Drabo has since become a folk hero , for the inspiration he has given to his country 's people to rid themselves of corrupt government .
28 Whilst therefore making full allowance for the diversity of gifts God has given to his Church in the varying capacities he has accorded to different members , Paul insists that the Spirit creates unity , and that it is the job of the Christians to keep that unity and not spoil it .
29 My hon. Friend 's successor will have a hard act to follow : the diligence and commitment that my hon. Friend has given to his constituents have been exemplary .
30 Set in a slum in Islington , North London , it showed the divisions in a working-class family where the boozing bully of a father resents the independence that the Welfare State has given to his three children .
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