Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Bass & Co had to fork out £20,000 per tenant their enthusiasm for leases would swiftly fade . |
| 2 | The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced . |
| 3 | If the cheese is cut , the paste must be restrained inside the crust — thank heavens for film wrap , before which glass or wood had to be used . |
| 4 | For Draper , the principle of expanding only into related fields , where Virgin had at least a margin of experience and expertise , was sacrosanct . |
| 5 | Arnie did n't think that big was beautiful he believed small was secure-and Crocus had to be secure ; the blowback potential was massive . |
| 6 | One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction . |
| 7 | Where a small hill or depression had to be crossed in the course of building a canal , a cutting or an embankment was often the engineering solution . |
| 8 | The longer the dispute continued the more officialdom in Scottish education recognized that support had to be provided . |
| 9 | Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law . |
| 10 | It became obvious that pushy-aggression had to be replaced by calm , reassurance , and bribery . |
| 11 | The Church throughout the world received orders and instructions which it obeyed willingly enough , though sometimes it regretted that there were no arrangements for dialogue and that it had not been invited to collaborate ; the result was that unity had to be lived out in passive acceptance rather than celebrated in fraternity ( Pensiamo al Concilio 9 ; see Hebblethwaite , 1984 , p. 409 ) . |
| 12 | On the one hand they doubted whether peasants should receive land as well as personal freedom ; on the other they felt that emancipation had to be introduced gradually , at different times in different places . |
| 13 | Cos I 've got the ones that Budgie had like that . |
| 14 | The absence of the bumble bee meant that pollination had to be carried out artificially , using an electronic vibrating rod . |
| 15 | Norwich have now replaced Nottingham Forest as a model of entertaining , educated football and good sportsmanship , and at last seem to be acquiring some of the defensive solidity that Forest had in their glory years . |
| 16 | recognised that the phrase had no intelligible meaning in a wholly common law context , which suggested that attention had to be given to the civil law origins of the phrase . |
| 17 | The US government began to look favourably on such plans in the mid-sixties , presumably out of a realization that something more permanent than arm-twisting had to be done to protect the gold in Fort Knox . |
| 18 | During my relatively short period as a city detective , I was implicitly aware that quality had to be sacrificed to quantity , for the ‘ arrest list ’ was checked monthly and the numerical totals counted . |
| 19 | We have recently received a claim from a class member who had an accident in a class and as the teacher was in no way responsible that claim had to be refused . |
| 20 | The Marxist value system arose in this vacuum of values and it arose from the multiplying effect that machinery had on man 's labour . |
| 21 | A senior official in the State Statistical Bureau warned that demand had to be controlled to avoid runaway inflation . |
| 22 | He argued that consideration had to be given to a child 's quality of life . |
| 23 | For example , the incidence of group work appeared to have declined although caution had to be exercised in interpreting results because there were inherent problems in sampling particular weeks for study ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 24 | This means that airspace had to be rationed and licensed , and pirate TV is not a very viable possibility . |
| 25 | With this faint translucent grey the face , pose and clothing were rapidly sketched from life in a free and speculative manner although care had to be exercised around the face where the tint of grey would also shade the flesh . |
| 26 | In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] . |
| 27 | Most respondents thought that fundholding had in some respect changed the way they worked ( table III ) . |
| 28 | On the Lobito Bay line through Angola , so dependent were the engines on wood that re-afforestation had to be undertaken to keep the engines supplied . |
| 29 | Increased attention to secondary education meant that justice had to be seen to be done . |
| 30 | Since that time the second patient 's lesion had progressed in such a way that gastrectomy had to be performed in January 1991 and fundic argyrophil cell tumours were discovered in three other patients and were progressing in two of them . |