Example sentences of "[that] [indef pn] had to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 2 | I think that everyone had to be rescued by a motor boat as we drifted helplessly around , vainly splashing at the water with these pieces of wood . |
| 3 | The government was quite content , in essence , to use inflation as a weapon of war : somebody had to bear the costs , and apart from those assessed for the new Income Tax of 1799 , that somebody had to be the consumer . |
| 4 | Did n't you say that he 'd expect you to tidy your bedroom every day before you went to school and at night before you went to bed , that everything had to be perfectly in place ? |
| 5 | Burton 's Welsh and hungry and visceral sense that everything had to be grabbed or it would be lost forever would be reinforced at this critical stage in his life by the fatalistically hedonistic mood which infected so many . |
| 6 | It became a rule of the ‘ Carry On ’ outfit that everything had to be filmed within spitting distance of Pinewood — and there were real sergeants to carry on the business of teaching them what life in the Army was like . |
| 7 | Whilst women 's role as mothers was of paramount importance to society — particularly after the exile when maternity , for various pragmatic reasons , became the means of transmitting and establishing in biological terms , as it were , religious and ethnic identity — it would seem logical , given our culture — nature opposition and the fact that culture seeks to control and impose upon whatever has been construed as natural , that something had to be done in cultural terms about the natural function of childbirth . |
| 8 | A public consensus began to form , especially in rural areas , that something had to be done to force the Westminster government to act against the killing and crime . |
| 9 | It was in 1972 , when I was twenty-five , that I decided that something had to be done . |
| 10 | There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was , but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible . |
| 11 | John Feaver , LTA Director of Events and Tournaments , said , ‘ Our experiences last year convinced us that something had to be done and we hope that this system will really help the enthusiastic spectator . ’ |
| 12 | On the one hand , business leaders agreed that something had to be done to the health-care system because the cost of covering their workers was eroding their profits . |
| 13 | Most people acknowledged that something had to be done , but Congress continued to drag its heels . |
| 14 | At the end of the war the Buckinghams decided that something had to be done ; not Mrs Buckingham , who was still repining , but Harriet 's vast web of paternal relations . |
| 15 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 16 | He told police many people hated working in the hangar and the thought had just come into his head that something had to be done . |
| 17 | ‘ The club realised that something had to be done . |