Example sentences of "having [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their stories were n't ones of passive pain , but tales of active resistance — having somewhere to run to , they 'd got a grip of their own lives . |
| 2 | In such cases , some adjustment should be made for the individual wishing to complete a set , rather than having wholly to duplicate it . |
| 3 | He assumed the Boniek role with authority , a fact which perhaps explains his lack of concern at having eventually to replace Johnston . |
| 4 | These included everything from wind turbines to exploiting the heat from rocks deep under the earth 's surface , The phrase ‘ renewable ’ referred to the fact that instead of having constantly to supply new fuel from the earth , as with coal or nuclear materials , the energy source , such as wind or water , is constantly renewed . |
| 5 | To quote Lodge again , ‘ instead of having desperately to defend the possibility of a fixed or stable meaning in isolated utterances , we can cheerfully accept that meaning exists in the process of intersubjective communication , since no utterance ever is truly isolated . ’ |
| 6 | He had a difficult time , having largely to rebuild the fleet in a period when every shipyard had an order book as long as your arm . |
| 7 | This is facilitated by the Stock Exchange Money Brokers ( SEMBs ) , described above in Section 3.2.4 , and enhances the ability of GEMMs to supply large amounts of stock on demand without having always to hold large inventories of stocks or without having to offset large sales by matching purchases in intra-market business . |
| 8 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 9 | It was like being a champion at tennis , and condemned to play with rabbits , as well as having always to get their wretched balls out of the net for them . |
| 10 | We know that 's largely what they want , but we 're having possibly to move away from that . |
| 11 | And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools |
| 12 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 13 | The component subskills can then be described as being automatised — the movements occur as the position of the pen demands them , without the writer having consciously to calculate them . |
| 14 | Notice this latter illustration concentrating on the externals of a still picture and then having selectively to use a ‘ public voice ’ , carried less risk of inadequate work than if the group had gone straight into dramatic playing , a mode which is often used indiscriminately and without any kind of rigour . |
| 15 | Since most men had acquired wives before they reached the stage of being an S.S.O. — and Benedict 's , having yet to appoint its first female house-surgeon , never had any but male S.S.O.s — a bachelor S.S.O. was regarded as an unexpected bonus and fair game for the entire nursing staff . |
| 16 | He ignores the profiles these tests produce , having yet to see a meaningful correlation between personality and business success . |
| 17 | The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal . |
| 18 | Having nowhere to sit while waiting also came high on the list . |
| 19 | They were typical of part of what it was like to be homeless — having nowhere to go ; having to avoid all representatives of authority ; feeling tired and generally run-down ; and needing to have my wits at their sharpest at a time when they had become critically undernourished . |
| 20 | Having nowhere to go , they live on the streets and survive by theft and prostitution from the age of eight , and take to glue sniffing . |
| 21 | The worst stories were those from the people living in bungalows having nowhere to move to . |
| 22 | Despite the initial problems of having nowhere to play and no real contact with the industry , outside of listening to John Peel , the space and time to manoeuvre and mature outside of the media 's glare has given Therapy ? a concrete foundation to work from . |
| 23 | There is , of course , an enormous difference between the private/public demands of the two examples : writing my own private notes protects me rather more than having publicly to make suggestions on how the teacher as ‘ patient ’ should , say , knock on a door . |
| 24 | She closed the door on Charles without having actually to bang it . |