Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] have to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting bricks is another fault of Russ , it 's all commonsense actually if you think about it , I mean actually we 've drove round at night looking at people 's walls and things like that and some were absolutely appalling , they 've obviously paid money to have that done , so you , you , you can see it do n't have to be absolutely perfect |
| 2 | I think its just an extreme form of friendship , you 've become extremely friendly with somebody and it can be kind , in love with your , with your girlfriend it do n't have to be in love with your boyfriend , you can have you know some body who 's a same sex and you 've got the same feelings towards them |
| 3 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 4 | It do n't have to be wound wet does it ? |
| 5 | The AESOP PEP is a single company PEP ; shares transferred into it do not have to be quoted , as is usually the case with PEPs . |
| 6 | It did not have to be on a vast scale , dazzling or absolute . |
| 7 | It did not have to be proved that the accused intended to use the article for a particular burglary , theft or cheat . |
| 8 | Earlier , Dave McCullouch stated that , although this was always the case , it did n't have to be . |
| 9 | It did n't have to be colourless , tasteless or odourless , it just had to be got , somehow or other , past Elinor 's front teeth , down her oesophagus and into her digestive system , even if to do so it should be necessary to hold her down and clamp a funnel between her jaws . |
| 10 | It did n't have to be for one slot , it did n't have to be in a particular form , it could be anything as long as it used the medium for visual ends . |
| 11 | It did n't have to be for one slot , it did n't have to be in a particular form , it could be anything as long as it used the medium for visual ends . |
| 12 | ‘ It did n't have to be cards , it could have been a letter . ’ |
| 13 | " Yes , but I wish it did n't have to be like this . |
| 14 | GUIL : ( Shaking with rage and fright ) It could have been — it did n't have to be obscene … |
| 15 | Any man would do , it did n't have to be me . |
| 16 | But it did n't have to be that way , when you were in love . |
| 17 | I mean it did n't have to be spot on . |
| 18 | But Lyn said quietly , " I wish it had n't had to be you who found her . " |
| 19 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 20 | The requirement for such pleasures is a matter of time and place , and it does not have to be Friday , Berlin or Strasburg , New York or San Francisco . |
| 21 | It does not have to be a long passage , it may only be a verse . |
| 22 | It does seem , though , that when the death of someone we love is sudden it does not have to be that the shock is greater than when we have been expecting it . |
| 23 | Find something to look forward to ; it does not have to be a major event . |
| 24 | They may see that it does not have to be time consuming and it does n't always involve filling in forms . |
| 25 | Bear in mind that bread from a bakery can contain additives although it does not have to be labelled — buy bread from a healthfood shop or make your own . |
| 26 | It does not have to be that way . |
| 27 | A legal system must take steps to control the use of force but it does not have to be totally successful in order to remain a legal system . |
| 28 | This illustrates , too , the other key point about demonstration : it does not have to be done every time by the sort of presenter you can find selling vegetable slicers in Selfridges ' basement , as a straight , face-to-the-camera spiel . |
| 29 | Discourse may be composed of one or more well-formed grammatical sentences and indeed it often is — but it does not have to be . |
| 30 | One argument against teaching the visual is that , since it does not have to be translated by a non-native speaker in the way that language does , there is no need to make a systematic study of it . |