Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 When the chip is incorporated into a smart card and inserted into a mock up cash machine , the user only has to speak into a microphone to be recognized and given the cash .
2 Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him .
3 Hereford and Worcester has already voted for a similar ban , Northamptonshire 's decision only has to go to the full council , and Gloucestershire votes next week .
4 The camera was set to auto programme so the photographer only had to concentrate on focusing .
5 The centre of Dixie 's shirt caves in instantly , as if a hidden mouth inside had sucked at it and vomited blood .
6 Likewise the same range of factors as for industry generally has led to correspondingly poor performance in international terms .
7 If I can just join in the Scum-bashing here , am I the only person that thinks Sharpe is the most over-rated piece of crap ever to have pulled on a red shirt ( and they 've had quite a few ) ?
8 Chairman Sir John Hall , however , has stressed that the struggling Second Division club still have to put into operation the so-called rescue package designed to soak up debts of around £5m .
9 Chairman Sir John Hall , however , has stressed that the struggling Second Division club still have to put into operation the so-called rescue package designed to soak up debts of around £5m .
10 But the hearer still has to act on this indication and find which particular farmer is thereby being referred to .
11 Anyone nominated for a partnership now has to go through a two-day assessment and take part in simulated exercises that test the ability to display initiative in seeking new business .
12 With the approaching end of war in 1918 coalition became more positive because the coalition now had to deal with the issues that had been put aside for the duration , and more controversial because this pushed some Unionists into outright opposition .
13 Safire too had worked in the OEOB for a while , as a speechwriter .
14 Satellite measurements show that ozone loss worldwide has amounted to 2.9 per cent over the past 10 years .
15 And that law was still in effect when the building finally had to close in 1972 , on the expiry of the lease , after which it was transformed into a bank .
16 While of course the whole business game involves doing better than most of your competitors , the attempt to diversify away from one 's basic business , which so much experience elsewhere has shown to be an extremely difficult operation , is a risk that I have always tried to avoid .
17 Management thus had to respond to the rising expectations and social aspirations of a higher paid and better educated workforce , and felt obliged also to reduce the rising costs of apathy induced by meaningless work .
18 Nevertheless , the paradox is that a small , cheapish amp still has to sound like a beast , whilst remaining tame and housetrained in all other respects .
19 Philosophy always has begun from Athens on from a recognition of the extraordinary facts of the diversity of human belief and attitude , on moral questions , on questions of social organization , on questions as to the ultimate nature of the universe , the destiny of man , and all such things , the most astonishing diversity of belief and attitude has prevailed and still does prevail amongst people .
20 Alongside these developments the plan also has to cater for the projection of a school image which is honest and intelligible and for making and fulfilling promises about quality .
21 But the work also had to contend with three apses , and here it met with less success : in the apse to Orpheus 's right the panel is a poor fit , and throws out the meeting of the guilloche border of the main design with the north-western abutement .
22 But he says it 's got this wee arrow here 's got to be in the middle of this dial , you know .
23 The gunman then had turned to him .
24 In short , a European parliament still had to come into existence .
25 Once a child is maturationally ready to toilet train the process usually only takes one or two weeks , but the teaching still has to come from the mother and she may be very uncertain about when to do it .
26 It is such a cohesive , well-oiled unit that the band rarely has to call for outside assistance .
27 The theme that the right alone had espoused for years — German unification — had overnight become official state policy , leaving the extreme right temporarily disarmed .
28 In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action .
29 The teacher always has to operate within a number of constraints such as agreed syllabuses , governors ' wishes , heads of department , parental pressures , and so on , which mean that he or she is the only person who is competent to decide on content and method .
30 However , this source suffers from the long time gap between censuses , and so more detailed and more frequent information on changing land use within the forest still has to rely on ad hoc surveys .
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