Example sentences of "something [that] had to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was something that had to be said but I could see that Aunt Louise did not like it , or even accept the idea . |
| 2 | They were something that had to be removed , like flammable rubbish , so that the president could be ‘ fireproofed ’ from the fury of his own people when news of the secret contacts with Iran hit the newspapers . |
| 3 | The point to be made , however , is that although this was something that had to be thought out in my head , rather than in the field , it was a very central part of the methodology with which I approached the research . |
| 4 | Something that was eternal was more perfect than something that had to be created . |
| 5 | They simply continued to secure him , coldly and efficiently , as if this was just something that had to be done and as if there was no particular feeling in doing it . |
| 6 | Many working class women did , however , participate in Women 's Cooperative Guild meetings and campaigns , and as Jill Liddington and Jill Norris have shown , large numbers of working class women in Lancashire actively supported the suffrage movement , albeit with ‘ one hand tied behind them ’ , as for all these women any cause was something that had to be fitted in ‘ between dinner and tea ’ . |
| 7 | No but I mean , it 's something that had to be dealt with , aside junior school and everything else that 's applications getting made elsewhere . |
| 8 | It was something that had to be done at the same time as teaching , and was seen more , I suppose , as a chore rather than as something which would have any sort of positive spin-off for us . |
| 9 | I think I basically saw it as something that had to be done for the authority and not as something that was going to lead to any change . |