Example sentences of "[noun sg] to have [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Worse still , in their programmes of records , of which there are many , it is common practice to have to endure several minutes of discussion on the item to be played .
2 The location of silage tower , clamp , or pit is important with relation to feeding : it can be a great disadvantage to have to cart silage some distance to the feeding-point .
3 [ I ] t can not be satisfactory for the Department to have to substitute its commercial judgment for the Board 's in this way .
4 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 .
5 It 's an embarrassing thing for a fault-tolerant vendor to have to say , but a bug in Guardian for the Tandem Computers Inc NonStop CLX machines caused them to reset their clocks to December 1 , 1983 on November 1 , causing systems with time-dependent programs to go haywire .
6 Yet it is hardly convenient for patients in areas with growing population to have to travel to Inner London for routine treatment .
7 The redevelopment of the er derelict factory site into smaller industrial units and making it er a form of want for a better phrase , enterprise zone where thanks to subsidies from the government and the E E C , we will look into making it rate free , reduced rents , etc. , er increase capital allowances for companies going in there so you could attract the needed capital intensive industries that will meet the high tech need that we have the need to have to create high tech jobs .
8 It is a harsh punishment to have to walk the glider all the way back , particularly after a cable break where the glider lands in the middle of the airfield .
9 Still , it seems a shame to have to resort to such base practices .
10 It 's a shame to have to write that sort of thing into a contract , but you ca n't trust the buggers . ’
11 Manual workers are not the only occupational group to have to cope with imposed controls .
12 It was not a good place to have to wait , this time .
13 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 .
14 ‘ There is no doubt ’ , wrote an LNU MP of his constituents during the 1935 Election campaign , that ‘ they 're quite prepared for the Navy to have to fight . ’
15 To me , he had to be pretty unsettled inside to have to put on all this and that .
16 However , it goes against the grain to have to say this , as it is our land after all .
17 That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop .
18 And I have to say that this is the minimum I 've ever seen for a sales person to have to do .
19 With the establishment of Excavations Units , especially in the cities , the situation has changed drastically , for now that the specialists can operate as members of a team , there may not even be the need for those responsible for pottery to have to draw it all themselves .
20 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 .
21 Though it would be a great personal sadness to have to do it , it would nevertheless give her the greatest satisfaction to see Kirsty settled in a warm and loving family .
22 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 .
23 In fact , she was still sufficiently under the weather the following week to have to pull out of England 's Intermediate Championship which was won , at Warrington , by Lora Fairclough .
24 It would have been thought of as demeaning their authority to have to explain their actions .
25 It 's no way to manage a Health Authority to have to have people coming along there to t guard their own vested interests .
26 Professor Alex McDougall , convener of the institute 's VAT sub-committee , said ICAS had been pressing for Customs and Excise and the VAT tribunal to have to power to mitigate penalties .
27 Thus there was less pressure on the prosecution to have to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt and , although acquittals did occur , they were comparatively few in number .
28 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 ?
29 ‘ However , I have concluded that it is too much to expect of my colleagues in Government and in Parliament to have to put up with a constant barrage of stories about me in certain tabloid newspapers .
30 It is quite normal for the male to have to stay outside and drive his milt in with beats of his tail , because he can not get in through the reduced entrance .
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