Example sentences of "had to [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later redefinition of the goal as ‘ providing transportation ’ removed the blinkers that had prevented them from realizing that cars were made largely in Detroit but had to be received in good condition in every State , and that driving them to their destination was expensive . |
| 2 | To ensure continuous improvement a culture change , from a top-down approach to a team driven system , had to be implemented within Noble Metals . |
| 3 | New legislation approved by the Senate on July 4 decreed that from July 8 all cash transactions of over L20,000,000 ( about US$15,000 ) had to be made through recognized intermediaries . |
| 4 | How would they fare if the decisions had to be made in split seconds ? |
| 5 | Many waterways were originally constructed with soft banks but passing boats washed mud into the channel which had to be cleared by frequent dredging . |
| 6 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 7 | She proved to be the Glisseuse , a rather shabby forty foot motor cruiser , difficult to see on Venturous ' radar , so that much of the time she had to be kept at visual distance , especially as she approached the busy traffic lanes of the Thames . |
| 8 | They did not come near Lucie , Izzie or Gabriel , and had to be kept from starving with little presents of food left furtively on their threshold . |
| 9 | Although weak , the baby was basically healthy , but she had to be kept in intensive care for the first few weeks . |
| 10 | Some of the houses were almost falling down , and had to be supported by huge blocks of wood . |
| 11 | By August 1991 W. 's condition had deteriorated to the point at which for a short time she had to be fed by nasogastric tube and have her arms encased in plaster . |
| 12 | It is a clear example of the point that a successful electrical recording system had to be planned with consistent quality and matching equipment from first to last . |
| 13 | The greatest excitement in their lives , which had to be planned with meticulous care and some anxiety , was a drive into Norwich or Ipswich to shop . |
| 14 | Adaptations were required of Christianity ; biblical colours had to be matched to Germanic ones . |
| 15 | Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost . |
| 16 | The burden of war was thus more manageable , but large sums still had to be raised by parliamentary grants and the commons were seldom disposed to make such grants unconditionally . |
| 17 | The committee pointed out that no great increase in costs would be incurred , because at that time , each vacancy had to be filled from nursing institutes ( agencies ) at a cost of 2½ guineas a week . |
| 18 | Policewomen sometimes had to be called from other duties in order to deal with an incident which male colleagues felt incapable of handling . |
| 19 | The crisis had wider effects , and the old techniques of social control had to be revised for rural England . |
| 20 | The cost of filling BBC2 's hours , one must remember , had to be met from increased licence fees ( controlled by the government ) , marginal economies and earnings from co-productions and sales abroad , and increasingly from the larger fee charged for a colour licence . |
| 21 | Further , 25% of tutors ' fees were not grant-aided and thus had to be met from other sources principally donations , subscriptions and through appeals to branches , with some assistance from the National WEA when its own difficult financial position allowed , usually about £50 a year . |
| 22 | They had developed a method of inserting memories into the brains of amnesiacs , but first those memories had to be recorded with full sensory data on to microchip , and then projected by laser into the brain . |
| 23 | All transactions had to be recorded on government-provided fiscal receipts with special stamps . |
| 24 | Whilst women 's role as mothers was of paramount importance to society — particularly after the exile when maternity , for various pragmatic reasons , became the means of transmitting and establishing in biological terms , as it were , religious and ethnic identity — it would seem logical , given our culture — nature opposition and the fact that culture seeks to control and impose upon whatever has been construed as natural , that something had to be done in cultural terms about the natural function of childbirth . |
| 25 | Moreover , the notice that had to be given to temporary workers was always the statutory minimum ( one week if , as was usual , they had less than two years service ) rather than the extended notice ( often a minimum of four weeks ) which many of the organisations had granted to their regular workforces . |
| 26 | Mrs Rene Morris said she had been shown letters addressed to parents which said the form had to be given to head teachers before a decision could be made . |
| 27 | Increased imports into the OPEC states were expected to absorb only about one third of their increased oil export revenues , and the other two thirds had to be invested in international capital and money markets . |
| 28 | Chomsky started by defining the nature of the learning objective — that is , adult grammatical proficiency — and then worked backwards to determine how much of the workload in language learning had to be borne by innate knowledge . |
| 29 | The wooden bridge over the stream had to be crossed in single file . |
| 30 | It had to be balanced with other sources of energy , perhaps gas . |