Example sentences of "[conj] had [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was much that might have been better concealed , not least the ugliness of wartime necessity that had yet to be cleared away . |
| 2 | Who they were , and whether the party 's appeal should be confined to the quarter of a million or so who might be described as ‘ proletariat ’ was something that had yet to be defined . |
| 3 | When it ended , she looped her arms around his neck and asked the one question that had yet to be answered . |
| 4 | He pointed to the necessity of a reciprocal relationship , one that had ultimately to be beneficial to all participants , and not merely based upon value money exchanges but one that entailed an exchange of real use-values . |
| 5 | In the Middle Ages , Finland was a land on the north-eastern fringe of Europe to which architectural styles percolated slowly , and had then to be adjusted to suit national and climatic needs . |
| 6 | It transpired that what this man really wanted to do was to strangle his mother , a desire which was both socially and morally unacceptable and had therefore to be repressed . |
| 7 | Age discrimination — which was not new but was worsening because of the current economic recession — existed in all EC countries , but had yet to be recognised as a problem , the report said . |
| 8 | Although there was evidence of cosmic order in the motions of sun , moon , and stars and in the cycle of the seasons , this order was not regarded as securely established but had continually to be achieved by the integration of conflicting divine wills or powers . |