Example sentences of "had to [be] [vb pp] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
| 2 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 3 | Secondly , applications had to be made direct to the appropriate Secretary of State who , if not available , had to sign at the earliest possible opportunity ( though they could be issued initially by a civil servant ) . |
| 4 | Pigs had to be kept near to the farmstead , probably in nearby closes , but they could be taken to wastes and pasture and , of course , woodland , where traditionally they ate acorns and beechmast . |
| 5 | THE 41st Ulster Drama Festival finished in triumphant style on Saturday night despite the fact that the event had to be re-located due to the devastation of the Grand Opera House . |
| 6 | Last year 's event had to be cancelled due to problems with the course , forcing organisers to switch to a new two-lap route mainly off the road . |
| 7 | The shows are re-scheduled from the band 's last European tour when two Irish appearances had to be cancelled due to Kurt Cobain 's throat condition . |
| 8 | as if to prove that a Shetlander 's work is never done , the same storms that sank the Braer and then cleaned away the oil caused erosion of the coast along the edge of the unexcavated portion of Jarlshof , and emergency coastal defences had to be installed prior to the provision of a permanent seawall . |
| 9 | More grain than expected had to be exported due to the precipitous fall in the grain price in the middle of the winter of 1922–3 . |
| 10 | The new service got off to an inauspicious start when the unit earmarked for a media preview on Friday had to be substituted due to technical problems . |