Example sentences of "[verb] that it had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already he had half decided that it had to be . |
| 2 | I stipulated that it had to be different from mine . |
| 3 | On March 26 the US State Department confirmed that it had in July 1991 denied a visa to Narong because of suspicions over his role in heroin trading . |
| 4 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 5 | But the explosive charge was too large and the chapel was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled down . |
| 6 | Taylor and his managers decided that it had to be ‘ double or quits ’ if the business was to be a success . |
| 7 | Similarly , inadequate information about the siting of the jetty at Rothera meant that it had to be redesigned and repositioned at a relatively late stage , at an additional cost of £2 million . |
| 8 | She looked it over , saw that it had at least two exits , and gave him a cautious yes . |
| 9 | Reformers knew that the peasant commune stood in the way of economic diversification in the countryside , but felt that it had to be retained because it served to protect the interests of peasants against those of outsiders . |
| 10 | If they believed they had ‘ natural ability ’ , they well knew that it had to be refined and fastened by a bridle of discipline . |
| 11 | I never thought that it had to be a ‘ rule ’ . ’ |
| 12 | Decio where the courts ruled that a corporation could not recover unless it first proved that it had in fact been injured by the insider 's illicit trading . |
| 13 | And then he remembered that it had to be borne , that there was no other choice , and that there would be no escape from this place . |
| 14 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 15 | But he calculated that it had to be worth it , that such casualties would be minor compared with those which would result from a prolonged , slogging , hand-to-hand battle . |
| 16 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |