Example sentences of "that it [vb past] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Between October and January I thought through what I wanted to do , and came to the conclusion that it had to be a change and it had to be something I was interested in , which really came down to working with people . |
| 2 | I never thought that it had to be a ‘ rule ’ . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The problem was , as I saw it , that it had to be a children 's programme and still attract adults and teenagers . |
| 4 | Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether . |
| 5 | On his view the fact that it ceased to be a probability , and did occur , is something that might not have happened . |
| 6 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 7 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 8 | The adviser stressed that it needed to be a constructive exercise . |
| 9 | One reason why women in London took up washing was that it tended to be a seasonal trade , the peaks in the availability of the work ( during the London season ) coinciding with the troughs in the male employment cycle in the gas and building trades . |