Example sentences of "had [prep] be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , the clothes I had on was identical to that of P C . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Bad as were the irregularities of the Freeholders ' elections , the irregularities in the burghs were , if anything , worse , one of the reasons being that while the county representative needed only one election meeting to be appointed , the burgh representative had to be successful in two elections before he could get to Westminster . |
| 4 | These speeches had to be rich in literary illusion and ruminative aphorism . |
| 5 | In the earlier regime it was accepted that rules had to be general to some extent , and open to change to allow for adaptation to changing circumstances . |
| 6 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 7 | The settlement which was worked out had to be palatable to all the leading protagonists : Whig and Tory politicians in the Lords and Commons ; the Church Establishment and the Protestant Nonconformists ; and the new monarchs themselves , William and Mary . |
| 8 | He presented a detailed theoretical analysis of skilled movement , showing that the sequencing of actions , the serial order of behaviour , could not be due to feedback stimuli from one movement triggering the next , as S-R theory argued , but had to be due to central programming of the sequence . |
| 9 | Ryder Cup star Steven Richardson finished in joint third while world number one Nick Faldo , seeking a fourth successive European tour victory , had to be content with joint 17th place . |
| 10 | The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme . |
| 11 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |
| 12 | But the Willowfield man was not to be caught and Paddy had to be content with second place with Lyle fading to finish fourth some 15 seconds behind third-placed man Greg Luke ( North Belfast ) . |
| 13 | Annadale teenager Adam Smith set a new NI youths ' triple jump record with 13.59 metres , but he had to be content with second place , victory going to Ballymena 's Mickey McDonald who jumped 13.76 . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough , however , were overhauled by Wirral in the second half of the fixture and had to be content with second place . |
| 15 | It was afternoon — the morning had gone on Crabb Robinson — which meant that all the ample , high , soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent 's desk , ensphered by the Catalogue , were taken , and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between these spokes . |
| 16 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 17 | He had to be content with that . |
| 18 | In disbelief , Montgomerie had to be content with third spot . |
| 19 | NIGEL Mansell had to be content with third place after the opening qualifying session for tomorrow 's Pioneer Electronics 200 IndyCar race at Lexington , Ohio . |
| 20 | The Holy Roman Emperor , the shah of Persia and the sultan in Constantinople were honoured with large sheets ( the fact that two of the three were non-European illustrates how large a role Asia still played in Russian foreign policy ) , while the kings of Sweden , Poland , England and Denmark had to be content with smaller ones . |
| 21 | Ian 's kid sister , who was playing mothers and fathers with her friends in the crawl space under the porch , said it was marvellous , so they had to be content with this infant praise and with taking her and her mud-covered friends for a ride round the block . |
| 22 | There was another superb performance from Dungannon 's Phelim Owens who finished fourth , but there was disappointment for Mark Coates who had to be content with 10th place . |
| 23 | There was another superb performance from Dungannon 's Phelim Owens who finished fourth , but there was disappointment for Mark Coates who had to be content with 10th place . |
| 24 | On only one occasion was I given an address , and had to be content with those of head offices . |
| 25 | What was surprising was the feeling that ‘ we ’ had to be involved with electronic media : otherwise they would stagnate into the old orthodoxies , the old ideologies . |
| 26 | But it was n't anything much , because you had to be discreet in those days , specially if you had a child . |
| 27 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 28 | Smoking was permitted but the number and timing of cigaretteswere noted on a diary sheet and had to be similar on all study days . |
| 29 | It had to be close to four in the morning . |
| 30 | They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation . |