Example sentences of "[vb past] it have [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed it had to be interpreted . |
| 2 | But Hebbert was there , guide in hand , picking out the classics on the Left Wall ( he reasoned it had to be a route on the left wall to provide a contrast to the big slab route just completed ) . |
| 3 | To be sure of providing physicists with details of the world beyond the standard model , the SSC 's designers decided it had to be able to make particles with masses of one trillion electron volts ( 1TeV ) . |
| 4 | She decided it had to be Aunt Tossie . |
| 5 | The city council decided it had to be cleaned up , the union demanded exceptional payments deadlock . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt it had to be my fault : I was a weak human being with no moral fibre or I would have been able to kick the habit . ’ |
| 7 | I felt it had to be a heart attack . |
| 8 | ‘ Once I heard her start singing the songs I knew it had to be her , ’ he says . |
| 9 | We knew it had to be done and we used to accept it . |
| 10 | I knew it had to be answered , but I carne to the conclusion that the longer I left it , the better . |
| 11 | ’ I knew it had to be something like that . |
| 12 | I knew it had to be a gift from God . |
| 13 | ‘ Although you did n't mention any names last week I knew it had to be me , ’ said Heather . |
| 14 | It contained perhaps half a dozen large water-colour sketches of a seaside resort ; because of the context she knew it had to be Deauville — his imagined Deauville . |
| 15 | I caught Werewolf 's eye and knew it had to be me who had to ask . |
| 16 | When the verdict came down over the radio earlier that afternoon , I thought it had to be some kind of misunderstanding — a joke . |
| 17 | I thought it had to be him . |
| 18 | What annoys him is people who say Moliere is not funny : ‘ I do n't read reviews although I understand we have done extremely well , but a couple thought it has to be very serious . |
| 19 | Oh , why did it have to be so hard ? |
| 20 | Singularity , like , later , monogamy , was a difficult thing , a strain , almost an oddity : perhaps that was its appeal for him , but why did it have to be so ? |
| 21 | Why did it have to be so far off the ground ? |
| 22 | Why , of all times of the year , did it have to be Christmas ? |
| 23 | Did it have to be a fighter pilot , for God 's sake ? |
| 24 | Did it have to be on this evening that Kate , that notorious hedgerow flirt , should have come in early to steal his mission of mercy and love ? |
| 25 | Why did it have to be a scarf ? he wondered . |
| 26 | And why , why did it have to be him who found her ? |
| 27 | Why did it have to be her ? ’ |
| 28 | And why did it have to be this man above all others who made her heart beat that little bit faster ? |
| 29 | Out of all the men who had liked her and wanted her , why did it have to be someone who thought her the most despicable of all cheats who made her yearn for something more ? |
| 30 | Or did it have to be somebody like Sir Edward ? |