Example sentences of "it had [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 It had somehow to reconcile conflicting opinions .
2 It had nowhere to go .
3 It had been my cherished wish , if our circumstances had allowed , to create a ‘ Balancing Fund ’ so that in future years the Institute would not be wholly dependent on forecasting expenditure on the basis of income it had yet to receive .
4 Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity .
5 Judge Brian Wall , heading the tribunal , said it had yet to rule on the authorities ' submission that the obstetrician and gynaecologist was not a fit and proper person to practise medicine .
6 M-19 was participating in the elections despite the fact that it had yet to sign a final peace agreement with the government of President Virgilio Barco .
7 Any use of force , according to this view , had to do more than hold the lines on the battlefield ; it had also to allow the Bosnian government the chance to fight and retake territory it had lost .
8 If my withdrawal from separatism had in part to do with feeling unhappy with a surfeit of hatred , which is mentally and spiritually very depleting , it had also to do with how you go about communicating feelings of being cleansed and enlightened .
9 It had also to make itself respectable and acceptable to a world which was , after all , part of the Roman Empire .
10 Not only had the farm to generate a living wage but it had also to provide the necessary capital for reinvestment in the business .
11 They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them .
12 So , it had further to go .
13 It had more to do with their nationalities than their ages .
14 It had more to do with the easy communion between Katherine and Thomas Sachs , the way his eyes sometimes fell on her when she was n't looking .
15 The USSR must not be given the chance to persuade Germans that it had more to offer than the West on the subject of unification and neutralization .
16 It was after the 1990 England v Ireland game at Twickenham that Paul Ackford casually mentioned to one of the Irish players that his team knew it had only to withstand Ireland 's 20 minutes of blood and guts to win easily .
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