Example sentences of "have to be a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It also does n't have to be a particularly fast drive because spreadsheets read the data into memory once when you start using them and after that the speed of the disk has no effect .
2 You will have to be a little cruel to be kind or she 'll never regain her stability or independence .
3 We 're going to try some further measures to get the temperature down and they may have to be a little drastic . ’
4 We do have to be a little careful now of the evidence which Mead cited in support of her claim that both gender and adolescence are so culturally varied that they simply can not be biologically determined .
5 It may be that August 1 would now have to be a more realistic target date .
6 If it is — it 'll have to be a really complex organ , and , as we 'll see in later chapters , you have to be sophisticated about what you mean by " slight " — I shall cease to believe in Darwinism .
7 ‘ It would have to be a very small stone , but I would do so gladly if it binds you to me . ’
8 And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions .
9 Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it .
10 If it was a product of the patient 's imagination , there would have to be a very significant reason why the subconscious mind should choose to create a particular series of events and personalities .
11 So I mean she 'd have to be a very speculative investor , she 'd have to be right up to er adventurous , for her to think about that .
12 And , I must say , it would have to be a very bad year if I did n't double my clients ’ money ! ’ she added , before breaking off to answer more phone calls .
13 ‘ There will have to be a very full investigation through the Police Complaints Authority . ’
14 Especially this one it does say , it will have to be a bloody great stallion would n't it ? but er , I think it will be quite enjoyable .
15 It also seems somewhat inevitable that the collective impression of the work of the women artists included , Janine Antoni , Rachel Evans , Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith , would have to be a suitably sour comment on the degraded position occupied by the female body in popular culture .
16 ‘ I think you would really have to be an extraordinarily immodest person to expect even to pass , let alone come top , in an exam which allows in — then and now — something like 15 to 20 people a year out of up to 2,500 applicants . ’
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