Example sentences of "[that] [art] [noun] had [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There was no requirement that the engine had to be started .
2 The Labour Cabinet was , it is clear , united in its view that the budget had to be balanced .
3 A citizen 's will of July 1449 implies that the mastership had by then become vacant , but no date of death is known .
4 Although the legislation approved by Congress made no explicit linkage between the guarantees and settlements , it stated that the money had to be used within Israel 's pre-1967 borders .
5 Mr Guest told the court that the case had to be seen against a background of 400,000 people in the United Kingdom who did not own a set but who were routinely hounded and subjected to abuse by the licensing authority .
6 Some argued that the case had been brought to an early end as there was little chance of the prosecution being successful , others suggesting that the case had in all but final verdict already been won .
7 He had been told that the Chairman had with a handgun shot dead a general who had dared to argue with his strategy during the dark days of the war .
8 It was this example that the AfDB had in mind when , in 1990 , it turned down the Cameroon road project .
9 The main difficulty was that the tinfoil had to be wrapped round the drum each time it was loaded , and it was almost impossible to replace accurately .
10 Giving cautious backing to the Dengist campaign , Li nevertheless warned that the maintenance of social and political stability was the " prerequisite for reform " , and that the government had to " be on the watch for any ideological trend towards bourgeois liberalization , … otherwise there will be serious consequences " .
11 The ceremony was boycotted by the US ambassador despite the fact that the government had on June 16 announced the opening of an inquiry into the events surrounding the violence .
12 It came amid reports that the government had in July accepted US funds to establish a new 100-strong secret service , to be called the Council for Public Security and National Defence , closely linked to the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) .
13 Marot continued his translations but had produced only fifty when he died in 1544 , so that the work had to be finished by Theodore de Beze .
14 We 've managed to run our economy so that the pound has always been teetering before it fell ; the successful economies have been run so that the currency had to be suppressed . ’
15 Furthermore , the DUC also realized that the mining had to be prevented by preventing prospecting and not waiting to begin opposition with the planning applications for the mining itself : ‘ We always felt that if it came to an actual application for mining that we would lose .
16 But he maintained that the trust had to be seen to be separate from the health authority .
17 It was said that the act had to be directed or aimed at the victim .
18 Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies .
19 We put him in a tent but he found the sensation of being , as he put it , sealed up so distressing that the idea had to be abandoned .
20 It was rumoured that the relationship had at times been stormy .
21 We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery .
22 We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery .
23 It was reported that the couple had made love for real , and that the scene had to be drastically cut by the censors .
24 Nouhak Phoumsavan , the SPA president , stated that the legislation had to be introduced in order to " stabilize the political situation and social order " .
25 First , in the case of scienter liability for animals mansuetae naturae , the keeper was only liable if the animal caused some harm of the kind to be expected from its known vicious characteristics ; secondly , in the case of cattle trespass , there was a rule that the damage had to be in accordance with the natural characteristics of the animal .
26 He said that the proposals had to be approved by him and Ian Lang , Secretary of State for Scotland .
27 Thus , in construing a written agreement the court is entitled to take account of surrounding circumstances ( with reference to which the words of the agreement were used ) and the object appearing from those circumstances that the person had in view ; but the court may not look at the prior negotiations of the parties as an aid to construction of the written contract resulting from those negotiations ( Prenn v Simmonds [ 1971 ] 3 All ER 237 ) .
28 It was not long before we decided that the question had to be turned on its head .
29 The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds .
30 It meant that the keynote had to be informality and so the idea of a planned suburbia was almost a contradiction in terms .
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