Example sentences of "they had to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 2 | Life was hell for unsuccessful acts ; not only did the performers have to put up with heckling and catcalls but they had to be agile enough to duck the rotten eggs and fruit thrown by a disgruntled audience . |
| 3 | But they had to be cheap . |
| 4 | They could n't be near the gutter or the peak ; oh , no , they had to be halfway between . |
| 5 | They had to be reasonable ( no sledge-hammer to crack a nut ) , controlled , and moral . |
| 6 | But actually , because they were very tight , they had to be whacking great things so that they would n't bend under the pressure . |
| 7 | Ian 's kid sister , who was playing mothers and fathers with her friends in the crawl space under the porch , said it was marvellous , so they had to be content with this infant praise and with taking her and her mud-covered friends for a ride round the block . |
| 8 | For the moment they had to be content to occupy the episcopal city and from there keep a watchful eye on their enemies . |
| 9 | But his secretiveness extended to not even telling them that , and they had to be content to accompany him as he turned left at the foot of the steps that led up to the station entrance and headed for the quays . |
| 10 | Stuck in Dovercourt with little prospect of continuing their education or of fulfilling their parents ' ambitions , they did not see what they had to be grateful for . |
| 11 | They had to be strong . |
| 12 | For example , in evaluating the yield of a particular hybrid plant , they had to be certain that all the factors which , taken collectively , and variably , affect growth , such as climatic conditions , fertility of the soil , moisture , disease resistance , and so on , were adequately controlled so that the yield of the hybrid could be stringently compared with that of the non-hybrid . |
| 13 | A different one every week but they had to be believable . |
| 14 | ‘ They had to be believable as the kind of kids you 'd see on the streets , but not on TV . |
| 15 | They had to be good — not just good but sensational — or she would let everyone down , all those who believed in her — her small workforce of pattern cutters and outworkers , the friends from art school who dropped in to lend their help and support , and most of all her mother , who had put her house up as collateral for the bank loan that had set her up and enabled her to get started . |
| 16 | Through these holes the hot air rose from the kill underneath and roasted the barley , so they had to be clear . |
| 17 | They had to be flexible , too , adjusting to the new post-war broadcast medium of television ; then to a new scale and range of programmes , increasingly controversial , and to changes in the society they served ; and above all to the introduction of what at first was known as ‘ commercial television ’ in 1955 . |
| 18 | They had to be willing , too , to wait for a place to become available . |
| 19 | And then the second thing was , they had to be willing to work . |
| 20 | They had to be well-proportioned , elegant and behave as rulers of a kingdom and thus able to command the attention of all . |
| 21 | The next high tide , twelve hours after this one , was the one they had to be afraid of . |
| 22 | Oh er , usually pale er , pale pink er again the ever cream colour which seem to , you could of painted the fifties with cream I think , erm and erm pale blue , powder blue colour er , they were all pale colours , er pale yellow or an amber colour , they had to be pale otherwise they would n't let the light through |
| 23 | For plastering they had to be fresh and supple with the green leaves still intact . |
| 24 | The judge had told the jury of what they had to be satisfied before convicting any of the accused , but the case cried out for a direction which amounted to the reverse side of the coin , namely , that they should not convict any person who was in their charge simply because of his association with others . |
| 25 | They had to be soft and woolly . |
| 26 | If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information . |
| 27 | ‘ Those were all done on one roll of film ’ he explained , ‘ Because they had to be instantaneous and I knew if I went back again , it would not be the same . |
| 28 | But this was outside the police remit , and meanwhile , they had to be careful not to jeopardise public tranquillity . |
| 29 | They had to be careful about saying anything to anyone about still having a rosary or praying to the Blessed Virgin , because Mr Drew , the vicar of St Saviour 's , was pleasing the Bishop of Launceston by being a good Protestant . |
| 30 | The Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , said Mr Errington , were advisers and advocates , not debt collectors ; they had to be careful not to step over that line . |