Example sentences of "the [noun sg] had [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teaching had to be simple and as there was no appropriate textbook , summary notes had to be dictated . |
| 2 | To do this successfully , the soldier had to be ready : he had to train in military skills which he might be called upon to use . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal in Brown [ 1985 ] Crim LR 212 widened the Collins definition by holding that the entry had to be effective , but need not be substantial . |
| 4 | President Arístides Maria Pereira announced at an extraordinary congress of the PAICV on July 26 , 1990 , that he was stepping down as party leader as a first step towards the ending of one-party rule , declaring that the President had to be above party politics . |
| 5 | A few ground rules were established from the outset : the gear had to be new and non-custom , effectively straight off the rack . |
| 6 | The bid had to be hostile , and Tiphook , since it needed a rights issue to pay for its part of the deal , had to become a joint-bidder . |
| 7 | He hated getting his clothes dirty , but the effect had to be convincing . |
| 8 | Even Einstein , when he formulated the general theory of relativity in 1915 , was so sure that the universe had to be static that he modified his theory to make this possible , introducing a so-called cosmological constant into his equations . |
| 9 | To match their storming performances the actor playing the husband had to be forceful , too , and Peter Dayson is certainly that . |
| 10 | The group had to be single sex , she says . |
| 11 | The suit had to be practical , which in practice meant seven different suits for different functions ( some worn mainly by stuntmen ) and two more for his damaged appearance at the end . |
| 12 | In both cases the shock had to be overwhelming and painful in the extreme if it was to generate the civilizing consequences of respect for , and maintenance of , the great taboos of civilization . |
| 13 | The secret was in their attention to detail — everything from the feed to the ventilation in the lorry had to be right . |
| 14 | The day had to be bearable . |
| 15 | They were sparingly given , and the deed had to be exceptional for any award to be made ; many of the Carnegie Medals were given posthumously . |
| 16 | Second , several recent polls demonstrated that Labour ( or the Tories ) could gain a 2-3 per cent electoral bonus if they committed themselves to reform ; but one of them ( for the Rowntree Reform Trust ) carried the warning that a fudged position would not do ; the commitment had to be whole-hearted . |
| 17 | BP Oil senior managers now recognised that those involved in implementing the strategy had to be involved in creating it . |
| 18 | The anthropoid shell was fashioned to fit this cocoon , and consequently the plumber had to be close at hand and work quickly to bespoke his client . |
| 19 | The paper had to be independent , appealing to the new radicals , and to the working class . |
| 20 | Bill Knowles , the general manager of the Ipswich Co-op — who has been involved in talks with the NCP — said he was confident the scheme would go ahead but the timing had to be right . |
| 21 | The timing had to be exact . |
| 22 | The timing had to be strict to meet television requirements for the finish at about 5 p.m . |
| 23 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 24 | As in the past , this normally involved a process of barter : to obtain information the ambassador had to be able and willing to give it in return . |
| 25 | Therefore he had to bribe Bull O'Malley , but the bribe had to be big enough and tempting enough for him to be unable to resist it . |
| 26 | As explained at that meeting the effort had to be ongoing . |
| 27 | The box had to be flat-packed but assembled without glue ; it had to be portable and reasonably waterproof . |
| 28 | The band has already shown it can knock out pop tunes a cover of Nancy Sinatra 's Kinky Love , for instance but the audience had to be prepared to indulge them a little . |
| 29 | At first instance , the judge held that the accommodation had to be appropriate and that no reasonable authority could have come to that conclusion in this case . |
| 30 | The image had to be trim , tidy and clean . |