Example sentences of "[adj] it had to be " in BNC.

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1 The most notorious of these streets , Pimlico off Church Street , was a derelict slum within ten years of its building around 1820 , and by the 1870s it had to be demolished .
2 In 1984 it had to be amended further to follow the Euro-notion of ‘ equal pay for work of equal value ’ whereby the pay of women occupying jobs without immediate male comparison is set equal to men 's through the opinion of a judge rather than the operation of market forces .
3 With the age and general appearance of the driver and the obvious wealth behind the car itself Campion was sure it had to be either hard drugs or pornography , maybe a sweep operation somewhere and one of the fishes had struggled through the net .
4 It seemed to her that if love was to be great it had to be paid for with a terrible price .
5 I 'm sorry it had to be me .
6 I 'm only sorry it had to be in such circumstances of stress .
7 Yes , he did see , but all the same it had to be stopped … somehow .
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