Example sentences of "and [adj] had to be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In a normal month the print room at central NACAB offices deals with only one monthly update but in order to spread the printing load , several months ' updates were in progress and each had to be isolated and stored . |
| 2 | Also throughout the branches of physical geography it was necessary to convince members of other disciplines that physical geographers had a contribution to make and this had to be done by showing what could be done rather than by simply stating in advance that a physical geographer had much to contribute . |
| 3 | Maggie felt she had the upper hand to some extent and this had to be talked out . |
| 4 | Next to the Met Office was the teleprinter room where yards of paper would come spewing out from the machine at regular intervals , bearing coded weather reports from all the other Met Stations in the United Kingdom and a few weather ships in the Atlantic , and these had to be painstakingly plotted on blank charts of the British Isles . |
| 5 | Thomas Sherer seems to have worked conscientiously as Fox 's deputy , but he could not of course carry out his own functions as Examiner and these had to be performed by deputies , described as ‘ men of small credit ’ and ‘ young men unsworn ’ . |
| 6 | DAUGHTERS of the rich and famous had to be evacuated from their boarding school yesterday after the headmistress discovered it was to be the site of a massive rave party . |
| 7 | Inspectors took away 47 for treatment and seven had to be put down . |
| 8 | Inspectors took away 47 dogs for treatment and seven had to be put down . |
| 9 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |