Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The message the voice has to impart is well-known to the users of this service : ‘ Good morning , ladies and gentlemen inaudible earlier defective train leading to inaudible cancellations inaudible delays to all destinations . ’ |
| 2 | One way of stating this global assumption is this : what the child has to acquire is the ability to direct , inhibit , and co-ordinate his thoughts , as he earlier had to direct , inhibit and co-ordinate his actions . |
| 3 | One of the first things an infant elephant has to discover is how to use its trunk . |
| 4 | The question that the hon. Gentleman has to answer is what nostrums put forward by his Front-Bench spokesmen would make such a record possible under a Labour Government . |
| 5 | ‘ A third role the Guild has to play is in the promotion of the consumption and enjoyment of cheese . |
| 6 | The field which the path has to cross is owned by Wimpey and let out to a tenant farmer . |
| 7 | The independent variable on which one has to focus is the political culture . |
| 8 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 9 | ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 10 | In order to perform a pre-programmed masterpiece , all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array . |
| 11 | All he has to do is fill in the person 's name . |
| 12 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 13 | Then all he has to do is to press one digit , and the number is automatically dialled for him . |
| 14 | All the angler has to do is raise the point of his rod , and the fish hooks itself . |
| 15 | Olive MacDonald does the choir , soloists look after themselves , all the producer has to do is arrange a sort of ballet of tableaux to the music . |
| 16 | All he has to do is to tell one person and then everyone in the Castle will know , from the Chief Secretary down . |
| 17 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 18 | Most CAD installations in the UK are turnkey units — so-called because they come complete and all the buyer has to do is turn the key and start learning . |
| 19 | The first thing a Minister in charge of a department sponsoring a Bill has to do is negotiate time from the Leader of the House for his Bill . |
| 20 | Throughout her self-pitying monologue ( for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination ) , all Dustin has to do is stare at her while his moustache droops in sympathy . |
| 21 | All that one has to do is to start training earlier . |
| 22 | All she has to do is slip the Mickey Mouse earrings in the pocket , smooth down her short hair so that it looks less like Just William and more like Tony Slattery , and the personality change is complete . |
| 23 | As in ‘ follow ’ mode , all the driver has to do is steer . |
| 24 | All the user has to do is enter a client account number at the beginning of each job , and again before a document is printed . |
| 25 | According to the apprentice chef , the Royal Oak is a good place to learn one 's trade — ‘ Chef knows what he 's doing and is prepared to help you , but he does n't push you too hard ’ — though the commis chef criticizes Tom for not being adventurous enough — ‘ He reckons all he has to do is to keep on producing good plain food and the customers 'll keep coming , but the fact is that it 's dull . ’ |
| 26 | What the counsellor has to do is to provide counsellees with the necessary knowledge and information to enable them to bring about change in their own lives . |
| 27 | All that the operator has to do is to insert the specimen , watch the machine break it , then divide the recorded breaking load by the area of the cross-section at fracture , which is easily measured . |
| 28 | All Gorby has to do is sit at a desk , saying nothing . |
| 29 | All an eavesdropper has to do is key in the broad frequency and then ‘ tweak ’ it a little to get the fine tuning . |
| 30 | He does n't have to steer at all ; he does n't look at his compass ; he need not even run his engines : his vessel is quite literally pulled out of one ocean and into the other by a sextet of electrically-powered ( and Japanese-made ) trains called ‘ mules ’ which run on American cast-iron rails beside the lock-gates of the Canal : all the captain has to do is stand on the bridge and watch , listen to the genial Yankee twang of his assigned American pilot and experience a transport of delight . |