Example sentences of "have [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action .
2 It is rather the kind of causal concomitant of the blow that has wholly to do with internal processes of tissue regeneration .
3 One is driven to the conclusion that here , too , the charge has most to do with symbolism .
4 By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability .
5 If one has to resort to such an intentional framework in order to make sense of the behaviour , in order to explain what the creatures are doing and why , and has so to resort after exhausting all possibilities of more austere , less anthropomorphic frameworks of explanation , then one is on the route to linguistic meanings .
6 A shrewd theologue said that personality has all to do with function .
7 One has only to return from a trip to the Continent , for example , to see what a shabby and second-rate country Britain has become .
8 It is a faith that believes it has only to ask in order to receive : e.g. in the cure of the leper ( Mark 1:40–5 ) .
9 As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’
10 If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land .
11 One has only to reflect on the enumeration of the varied properties of a state of full employment in the General Theory to realize that something is seriously wrong .
12 Hence the parser has only to decide on the syntactic structure that can be made from combining these different parts of speech .
13 The British reader has only to listen to the sounds that protest makes in his own streets , to the cruel , brutal voices that bellow over loudhailers about injustice and the disadvantaged .
14 One has only to listen to the forthrightness of ‘ Surely , He hath borne our griefs ’ or the intricate virtuosic weaving of parts in ‘ And he shall purify ’ or ‘ All we like sheep ’ , to realise that this is a choir or rare quality and precision which should be dragged straight back into the recording studio to commit to posterity its undoubtedly sublime view of Handel 's great choral masterpieces , Solomon and Israel in Egypt , or the earlier but no less demanding Dixit Dominus .
15 One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel .
16 With the Gunners fading alarmingly in their pursuit of the Championship , chairman Peter Hill-Wood has told Graham he has only to knock on his door to be handed virtually an open cheque book .
17 One has only to look across the Atlantic to Canada , where similar government policies shattered a once-successful Canadian pharmaceuticals industry .
18 The inbuilt bias towards the big clubs has undoubtedly fuelled inflation in the transfer market ; one has only to look at Manchester United , who raked in nearly £1m from television last season .
19 One has only to look at the new jobs created and investment .
20 One has only to look at the United States , where they take sex education very seriously but seem to have got everything wrong , with the most appalling results to the nation 's health .
21 He has only to look at what happened to Colin McFadyean at Bristol and Malcolm Lewis at Nuneaton to see that the job has far more snakes than ladders .
22 To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly .
23 To see and support British effort , one has only to look at the Chelsea Show which starts on May 25 , where the National Farmers Union stand is so impressive with the huge pyramid of vegetables , fruit and flowers .
24 One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists .
25 One has only to look at the economic forecasts .
26 For the duration of a project stage the individual has only to look at one sheet of paper to see the position reached , moving directly to further specific information if and when necessary .
27 One has only to look at the contradictions between the rich north and the starving south ; between capitalist industry 's ceaseless drive for higher productivity and the health of the biosphere ; those contradictions at the heart of the EC ( the ERM , the battles over farming and fishing , etc ) ; and the fierce struggle over world trade in GATT , which will soon break out again .
28 One has only to glance at a human skeleton to see the numerous segments of the vertebral column .
29 One has only to travel by train from the north-east of England to see the land which has been set aside , squeezed between the railway lines , to realise what the farmers are doing .
30 Er one has only to walk down the road here for example at Strensall but equally , the first point I made would be to contradict perhaps what Mr and Mr have said er because the the difference in employment distribution is a reflection of the pop planning policies that have been followed over the last ten years .
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