Example sentences of "[conj] had [prep] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I basically saw it as something that had to be done for the authority and not as something that was going to lead to any change . |
| 2 | And er can can we scrape away to say Chairman that er , you know this , this , this situation er it is not to do with government policies , we are paying a very heavy price to this country for world recession as we have paid this very high price , very very large amounts of money that had to be used for people who are unfortunate enough to fall out of employment . |
| 3 | Apparently , director 's cuts of both The Terminator and The Abyss are in existence , the latter featuring a different ending and £8 million of special effects that had to be dropped for space . |
| 4 | Of course these superior critics disliked the way his films displayed ‘ the grossest sentimentality ’ , but this was the price that had to be paid for his mass popularity and after all , as William Hunter reminded his readers , Dickens had been far more sentimental for very much the same reasons . |
| 5 | But you get in nowhere without a pass , applications for which are vetted by the Special Branch , and this year hundreds of passes went missing and had to be queued for . |
| 6 | The ground was cropped until it was exhausted and had to be left for a few years to recuperate . |
| 7 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |