Example sentences of "have got to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any ambitions we have have got to be within the terms of those realities . ’ |
| 2 | I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses . |
| 3 | I love Betty 's outfits — the clothes I wear have got to be out of the ordinary . |
| 4 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 5 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 6 | If you just deal with politics at a surface , organizational level , you never understand how things have got to be this way . |
| 7 | Either chemists , pharmacists and medical practitioners should be totally amoral and provide patients with any drug they want — including fatal poisons — to use as they wish , or else we have got to be prepared to take the moral stands our consciences and beliefs press on us . |
| 8 | ‘ You two bring tip a kid , you have got to be joking . ’ |
| 9 | Changes in your life are needed just now and major decisions concerning your work and your personal life have got to be made . |
| 10 | ‘ But you have got to be alone . |
| 11 | ‘ Quite a few players have got to be worried and I include myself among them . |
| 12 | ‘ On the one hand it has dragged the name of this club through the mud and on the other , as a manager , I have got to be worried by the implications . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Arsenal , Manchester United and Villa have got to be favourites but you can not disregard the likes of Norwich , Blackburn or even Ipswich . |
| 14 | ‘ Their reputation is built on the fact that they are a counter-attacking side and we have got to be careful . |
| 15 | ‘ We have got to be a lot , lot better than in the Canadian game , but I have no doubt we will be , ’ he said . |
| 16 | You have got to be prepared to miss . |
| 17 | We have got to be spot on with the depth to which we are digging — too much and the water will be too deep and the reeds will not grow — but I think the new reeds will be good and strong , not the spindly rubbish we are getting as a result of the dry conditions , ’ said Mr Macklin . |
| 18 | The adventurers have got to be very fast here . |
| 19 | Sitting next to Alison 's fiance , Gordon Healis , Mr Manwaring said : ‘ The streets have got to be given back to the police and the decent people of this country . ’ |
| 20 | We have to start with some broad-cut view of the areas of the company which we believe should be encouraged to go ahead , the areas of the company which we believe have got to be held back or even disposed of , those which are to perform the function of cash cows , and those we wish to encourage to develop in more aggressive and adventurous ways than they have hitherto . |
| 21 | I thought , Oh no , when I marry , if I marry , things have got to be straight , out in the open . |
| 22 | that we have to do in a certain way , in a certain format and certain things have got to be included and we 've got to take that in hand as well . |
| 23 | You are aware Miss that any persons working in that department have got to be of age ? |
| 24 | You are aware Miss that any persons working in that department have got to be of age ? |
| 25 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 26 | ‘ If anyone tells you that there is n't prejudice they have got to be lying ’ … . |
| 27 | No , what you have got to be , like John Wainwright , is a writer . |
| 28 | But I think that you have got to regulate these things and choose couples , like you may , as you do for adoptive children and not , just like throw in anybody these things have got to be controlled . |
| 29 | Oh yes yes everything 's got to be there all the phrase marks the accidentals have got to be it . |
| 30 | The two people doing the bass have got to be the same pitch . |