Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bid had to be hostile , and Tiphook , since it needed a rights issue to pay for its part of the deal , had to become a joint-bidder . |
| 2 | To do this successfully , the soldier had to be ready : he had to train in military skills which he might be called upon to use . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal in Brown [ 1985 ] Crim LR 212 widened the Collins definition by holding that the entry had to be effective , but need not be substantial . |
| 4 | With a motor and tyres made from plumber 's tubing , their entry had to be able to travel three metres and to carry a weight — and they proved to the judges that it could and it completed the distance in a time of 8.5 secs . |
| 5 | Each forgery had to be faultless , and each took time . |
| 6 | A few ground rules were established from the outset : the gear had to be new and non-custom , effectively straight off the rack . |
| 7 | He hated getting his clothes dirty , but the effect had to be convincing . |
| 8 | Lacking instinctive predispositions to the latter , the change of basic mode of subsistence had to be traumatic , and so it was . |
| 9 | President Arístides Maria Pereira announced at an extraordinary congress of the PAICV on July 26 , 1990 , that he was stepping down as party leader as a first step towards the ending of one-party rule , declaring that the President had to be above party politics . |
| 10 | Equipment had to be able to travel outside without damage being caused to electrical and refrigeration support gear by vibration or ingress of water . |
| 11 | Destination equipment had to be interchangeable with L.C.C . |
| 12 | Such work had to be minimal if the project was to remain viable . |
| 13 | My work had to be spontaneous so I have n't time to work out lighting etc … |
| 14 | My work had to be spontaneous so I have n't time to work out lighting etc … = The Aymarians ( Andes dwellers ) are very shy people and if , and when , they did consent to be photographed , they 'd insist it did n't take long . ’ |
| 15 | Even Einstein , when he formulated the general theory of relativity in 1915 , was so sure that the universe had to be static that he modified his theory to make this possible , introducing a so-called cosmological constant into his equations . |
| 16 | Roads that carried any considerable amount of through-traffic had to be wide enough , and could be wide enough in unenclosed country , to allow of detours around the impassable stretches that developed in unsurfaced roads by mid-winter . |
| 17 | The group had to be single sex , she says . |
| 18 | This was no easy task as the Lincoln would be flying at low level over a featureless jungle and the bomb aimer had to be quick in identifying each datum point on the route into and out of the target point . |
| 19 | A prospective husband had to be able to afford a wife , children and their educational expenses , and the trappings of domestic life . |
| 20 | To match their storming performances the actor playing the husband had to be forceful , too , and Peter Dayson is certainly that . |
| 21 | To enable as many as possible to run their lives on the basis of the manageable commitment which was the essence of the new orthodoxy , credit had to be available from a variety of sources from which each could make his choice to suit his circumstances . |
| 22 | There had been much insistence among Slovaks that the country 's name had to be hyphenated in order to make explicit the separate and equal identity of the two nations , whereas many Czechs felt that the issue was divisive and that the state 's title should be merely shortened by removing the word " Socialist " . |
| 23 | The fact remains that while Mossad is the honoured guest of the American government in Washington , especially at election time , the entire UN General Assembly had to be air-lifted to Geneva to hear what Arafat had to say . |
| 24 | As salt would have been a precious commodity , all their meat had to be air-dried in order to preserve it for the winter months , and this was done by the use of cleits . |
| 25 | The suit had to be practical , which in practice meant seven different suits for different functions ( some worn mainly by stuntmen ) and two more for his damaged appearance at the end . |
| 26 | Before the Act , there was some doubt as to whether or not a person had to be aware that his conduct or language was or might be regarded as being threatening , abusive or insulting . |
| 27 | A king had to be able to create a sense of solidarity among his men . |
| 28 | The secret was in their attention to detail — everything from the feed to the ventilation in the lorry had to be right . |
| 29 | The day had to be bearable . |
| 30 | In both cases the shock had to be overwhelming and painful in the extreme if it was to generate the civilizing consequences of respect for , and maintenance of , the great taboos of civilization . |