Example sentences of "but it have [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had to be . |
| 2 | The inevitable criticism that it was the former was met firmly with the contention that it was the latter , but it had to be admitted that no one could really be sure , and that to embark on such a venture an act of faith was indubitably required . |
| 3 | Mr Morrison says that he took on the job ‘ because they said that it would be difficult but it had to be done and that 's what appealed to me ’ . |
| 4 | D'Arcy hated to bring him down to earth , but it had to be done . |
| 5 | It was such a major operation but it had to be done although sometimes you think : My God , he 's worse off than before . |
| 6 | But it had to be called off after a police blunder led to Dennis and his alleged victim coming face-to-face with each other before the parade . |
| 7 | ‘ To write about the events up there was hard , sometimes a real struggle , but it had to be . |
| 8 | Social reform might assist such a victory , but it had to be of a kind which the Lords would not reject . |
| 9 | The Home Secretary — and the Home Office — were greatly concerned about the Commission 's almost unprecedented decision ; but it had to be accepted . |
| 10 | At every stage of the interchurch process we were hearing voices saying to us it is not sufficient that there should be fellowship , agreement , companionship , cooperation at the highest levels but it had to be found at every level , it had to be found at grass roots level . |
| 11 | But it had to be faced , and so she finally said , ‘ How long can I stay here ? ’ |
| 12 | But it had to be , because every inch of her body was wildly responding to Roman 's bold investigation , the unfamiliar but intoxicating movements of hands and mouth . |
| 13 | She craved the hardness of his body , but it had to be him , there was no other man in the whole wide world that she wanted . |
| 14 | She had felt that she was prying into Elise 's life , but it had to be done . |
| 15 | If she was honest , right at this moment she could think of nothing better than being able to collapse into bed , but it had to be alone . |
| 16 | Nothing that the head could do would make religion pervade the life of the school but it had to be recognized , he believed , that religion does permeate some people 's whole private lives . |
| 17 | But it had to be gradual , orderly change , sensible reform , rather on the British model . |
| 18 | It would cost the earth , but it had to be safer than Nigel 's Aston Martin . |
| 19 | It was time to begin hinting at her departure ; she 'd put it off as long as she could , but it had to be done . |
| 20 | It could have been something wonderful , but it had to be denied . |
| 21 | Farming was heavily subsidised , particularly the hills and uplands , but it had to be to survive . |
| 22 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 23 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 24 | By dawn the trench would probably be little more than eighteen inches deep , but it had to be occupied all day , while the enemy gunners resumed their work of levelling . |
| 25 | I du n no why but it had to be . |
| 26 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 27 | But it has to be reiterated that the CTP does not explain these observations : it does not explain how the impinging events give rise to awareness of those events . |
| 28 | But it has to be applied properly or it will not improve the quality of education . |
| 29 | You know , I always feel desperate , and I apologized to that family , but it has to be done ’ ( FN 5/1/87 , p. 2 ) . |
| 30 | The decline was never great , but it has to be judged against the fact that his general image was improving sharply ( Table 8.7 ) . |