Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] have [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Sex morality was the area par excellence where medics had to be governed by religious responsibility .
2 These can create even more stress on the individuals left with the burden , especially in the credit control department , where targets have to be met and cash pulled in by certain deadlines .
3 In a hospital or a bank , where records have to be kept for a long time , the files would not be deleted routinely , but stored in archives until the expiry of the prescribed storage period .
4 just as policy has to be interpreted by local authorities and individual schools , so ideologies have to be translated into specific policies and practices , and this may lead to inconsisten-cies .
5 Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming .
6 Most are square-edged , so spacers have to be used to guarantee an even grouting gap ; some ranges ( especially quarries ) still include RE and REX tiles for finishing off parttiled areas or forming tiled skirtings .
7 Although the Government signalled in the autumn that growth was the priority , Mr Lamont may still be sufficiently Thatcherite on economic policy to make an attempt to curb the deficit and if taxes have to be raised , the first Budget after the general election is a good time to get it over with .
8 If activities have to be organized through the state , then advocates of public choice theory would tend to favour decentralized delivery systems rather than those organized through the departments of central government .
9 A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production .
10 If foxes have to be killed , then shooting strikes me as being as decent a method as any , and probably far better than most .
11 The kitchen is a workplace in its own right ; there is a job to be done , and it will be impossible for the speechreader to deal with the matter in hand if eyes have to be constantly switched to the speaker 's face .
12 It can complicate the management of in-patients beds if beds have to be kept available to accommodate persons on leave of absence who may relapse and require urgent readmission and it can distort the patient statistics .
13 But if changes had to be made , the only cost effective alternative was an all-purpose authority for Edinburgh and the Lothians .
14 It argued that the existing two tier local government in Lothian was the best for delivering local services but if changes had to be made , the only effective alternative would be an all-purpose local authority for Edinburgh and the Lothians .
15 These are called trans-shipment points , where extra costs are involved if goods have to be loaded on to other types of transport , such as from ships on to lorries , or on to railway waggons to go further inland .
16 If toes had to be trodden on , too bad .
17 Even when it has that opportunity , because directions have to be sought , it is clear , as we have seen above from Sullivan v West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive , that it has no power to exclude such evidence at the interlocutory stage other than to limit the number of witnesses .
18 Because prayers had to be stimulated and informed as well as ordered , the preaching role of the church was no less important .
19 But this was expensive for borrowers in terms of commissions ( partly because bonds had to be lead managed by US firms , who formed a cartel ) , and suffered from listing , rating , registration and disclosure requirements .
20 Thus research papers were sometimes apparently preoccupied with technique simply because techniques had to be defined and refined for the purpose of the physical geographer .
21 Such policies can not work , because cuts have to be made at a difficult time and even more jobs are lost .
22 While this has been the intention in the NHS , the reality has been different , partly because ministers have to be seen to respond to public concerns .
23 On the subject of delays in responding to minutes , Mr Holden pointed out that speeding up the process would also add to costs , and that some delay arose because reports had to be considered by the Institute as well as by the JMU ; any suggestions on how to cut down on the time involved would be gratefully received .
24 Councils were reported as being reluctant to participate partly because grants had to be funded from their existing budgets .
25 There are the benefits of sea and sands and since cars have to be abandoned for the final approach , there is the pleasure of a short journey in a hooty little tin train .
26 Arabs need to be fast and alert to survive in exposed desert lands , while Highlands have to be sensible and phlegmatic to cope with mountainous terrain .
27 The realization that certain data is only used within processes whilst others have to be exchanged between them , has led to an increased interest in data management systems .
28 But the mid-nineteenth-century bourgeoisie was divided on the nature of that inferiority of the lower classes about which there was no substantial disagreement , though attempts had to be made to distinguish , within the subaltern mass , between those who might be expected to rise into , at least , the respectable lower middle class and those who were beyond redemption .
29 Even when pods have to be opened in the field , to save weight on the return journey , the seeds can be kept in good condition for two weeks by packing them in damp charcoal .
30 Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated .
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