Example sentences of "[noun sg] they had to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last Thursday central tv showed animal rescue workers at the farm taking away 35 goats suffering from emaciation. 6 horses were in such a bad condition they had to be shot . |
| 2 | For the moment they had to be content to occupy the episcopal city and from there keep a watchful eye on their enemies . |
| 3 | For a start they had to be brawnier than the old stalwarts had been . |
| 4 | In debate they had to be elaborately courteous towards their colleagues and non-ideological in their comments . |
| 5 | They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation . |
| 6 | 6 horses were in such a bad state they had to be shot . |
| 7 | You could use the word god but not the word they had to be suppressed . |
| 8 | ‘ He was always very strict with my sisters , about what time they had to be in and clothes and make-up and that sort of thing . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I must summon one again , ’ he 'd said , ‘ and speak with it , ’ to which Chant had replied that if they were to attempt such a summoning they had to be ready next time , for voiders were lethal , and could not be tamed except by Maestros of inordinate power . |