Example sentences of "[conj] there had to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , however , it had become clear that there had to be a replacement DMU which was placed midway in size and cost between the railbuses and the 210 units . |
| 2 | The NEC believed that there had to be changes and had already begun wide-ranging consultations . |
| 3 | Gradually , repeating over and over that there had to be a simple explanation , he had summoned up enough confidence to take hold of the note again , and the feather . |
| 4 | The first of these conditions ( which in some respects contrast sharply with the regulation in Britain before 1985 ) was that there had to be factual grounds to suspect a person of having committed a crime contrary to the security of the state . |
| 5 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |
| 6 | Ultimately it was inevitable that there had to be recourse to legal action to remove the ban . |
| 7 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 8 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 9 | I suggested to Wilson that there had to be a short cooling-off period , after which Max Aitken would be a suitable person to go to Rhodesia as an unofficial ambassador , since in the war he had flown with Smith in the RAF and they had become good friends . |
| 10 | It seemed that there had to be some medium throughout space through which the light traveled . |
| 11 | I knew that there had to be a wound : she had not been drowned or strangled or poisoned . |
| 12 | ‘ It was then I decided that there had to be a market out there for an ironing service for professional women — and this has very much proved to be the case . ’ |
| 13 | Lord Roskill in Morris said that the requirement in Eddy v Niman that there had to be an " overt act " was too narrow and that the act " need not necessarily be overt " . |
| 14 | In Lawrence [ 1982 ] AC 510 , Lord Diplock said that there had to be an obvious and serious risk of some physical harm or substantial damage to property in relation to reckless driving and causing death by reckless driving . |
| 15 | SCHOOLS Minister Michael Fallon yesterday denied that there had to be any cuts in the education budget in Northumberland . |
| 16 | Council leader John Williams ( Lab ) said that there had to be strict conditions . |
| 17 | Trent knew that he was insufficiently important to be the target so there had to be linkage . |
| 18 | Most ‘ Oddballs are secretive species , but I wanted something that would be seen so there had to be a midwater swimmer in the selection . |
| 19 | But the Bank had been monitoring the situation closely and there had to be ‘ room for debate ’ about whether there would be sufficient demand for office space in the early 1990s for the supply coming on stream . |
| 20 | And there had to be a reason for a coup . |
| 21 | So far as serious crime was concerned , three conditions had to be satisfied : the crime had to be really serious ; the normal methods of investigation had to have been tried and failed ; and there had to be good reason to believe that the interception would result in a conviction ( Birkett , 1957 ) . |
| 22 | Of course the ‘ genre ’ was somewhat doctored now : the forces of law and order had to be given a more positive and heroic role and there had to be far less suggestion of anarchy . |
| 23 | The work of all the institutions in the area concerned with medical or surgical treatment should be co-ordinated , and there had to be close and active co-operation between the public and the voluntary authorities and their respective officers . |
| 24 | And there had to be freedom of speech and publication , for without these the freedom of association is of no use . |
| 25 | Cost , efficiency and local accountability would be considered in preparing the proposed reforms and there had to be a trade-off between the two , Lang asserted . |
| 26 | If there had to be a foreign , non-Ukrainian government in Poltava , then for the local peasantry Great Russians were preferable to Germans . |
| 27 | If there had to be some sort of overall commander , he naturally felt that this should be himself . |
| 28 | His ‘ crimes ’ , as they saw it , started when he insisted that if there had to be meetings they must be businesslike , properly chaired and follow the agenda . |
| 29 | The latter seemed to hold the view that , if there had to be an Archbishop of Canterbury at all , it were best that he should be a socialist . |
| 30 | They were building new railways across the world , but there had to be an extraordinary reason to do that in Britain . |