Example sentences of "have to give a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some work , such as putting in an inside toilet or repairing dangerous electric wiring , qualifies for a mandatory grant , which means that the council has to give a grant if you qualify on income grounds . |
| 2 | It seems to even out in the long run , although sometimes one has to give a wry smile when a customer dithers over one of ‘ hers ’ and one of ‘ mine ’ — then chooses ‘ hers ’ . |
| 3 | Speech ! ’ , so that at least the groom has to give a speech . |
| 4 | This conference has to give a message to Jo John Smith to maintain union links , to strengthen them , not destroy them . |
| 5 | Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time . |
| 6 | If he had been asked what Roland Michell was , he would have had to give a very different answer . |
| 7 | Because the schools are up to 65 miles away , we have had to give a lot of thought to the development of distance learning materials . |
| 8 | Yes , I expect you did have to give a lot for your house . |
| 9 | ‘ I had hoped I would n't have to give a woman the full benefit of our facilities . ’ |
| 10 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 11 | When I had spare time , but if you 'd If it was decent weather you 'd have to give a hand in the garden at home you see ? |
| 12 | ‘ Because if you try to do anything so misguided I might have to give a Press interview to explain just why I got under your skin so badly ! ’ |
| 13 | As well as being interviewed , prospective chief officers will also have to give a presentation on a given topic , analyse financial data for non-experts and solve a practical problem . |
| 14 | WITH its every utterance the board down at Feethams is approaching the moment when it will have to give a vote of confidence to its manager . |
| 15 | Do we have to give a name of a character or |
| 16 | Bought a Vax , they said no they 're a con do n't worry , he said with a little bit of luck you 'll get one that 'll be free , you 'll have to give a report on it once a month , then about after nine months they give it to you if they thought |
| 17 | Alright , she 'll be expecting she reckons she 's due on the twenty third of March , but the hospital say it 's , it 's the twenty ninth , so it 'll be next week , I 'll have to give a ring , we went to see her the other week , to see how she was , erm we went round er one night , I rung her up to see if she 'd be in , I said right we 'll be round for an hour |
| 18 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 19 | Exercise 2 : Pretend that you are a witness who is going to have to give a description to the police . |
| 20 | He began , " It is bad enough to have to give a talk at 9.00 am , anyway , without having to watch yourself doing it . " |
| 21 | Ignoring accrued interest , the price that a bond has to have to give a yield to maturity of 9 per cent is given by . |
| 22 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 23 | In addition to the squalor , residents suffered from prejudice when they had to give a Springtown address . |
| 24 | She had to give a flat-warming party . |
| 25 | Hire purchase , credit sale and conditional sale advertising had to give a comprehensive picture of costs ( if it mentioned any financial terms ) , and any interest rate it quoted had to approximate to a true annual rate of interest , but the formula used was different from the one in the Moneylenders Acts . |
| 26 | However , quite a few teachers took an interest in what I was trying to do , especially the biology teachers , who were impressed with my knowledge of birds and conservation , and my English teachers , who soon heard all about my interest because whenever we had to give a talk in class , I would launch into a full lecture on rearing and handling owls and other birds of prey . |
| 27 | As a result of these negotiations , some of the original proposals had to be modified and , of course , I had to give a guarantee of absolute confidentiality to everyone involved , directly or indirectly , with the research . |
| 28 | While he was staying at Princeton he went down to Washington — he had to give a lecture at the Library of Congress , and wanted to see his cousin , Martha , there as well as Ezra Pound ; he also made two or three trips to Cambridge to visit his family . |
| 29 | Held : Upon an appeal by Mr Stone 's widow it was held that an occupier who intended to permit another person to enter and use the premises for a limited period of time had to give a clear indication to the other that the permission was subject to a time limit . |
| 30 | If you had to give a phoney address , could n't you at least have picked something that did n't have a remote basis in reality ? |