Example sentences of "there had to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were building new railways across the world , but there had to be an extraordinary reason to do that in Britain . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , however , it had become clear that there had to be a replacement DMU which was placed midway in size and cost between the railbuses and the 210 units . |
| 3 | ‘ Because of contracts and forward planning , there had to be an orderly change from government monopoly to co-op . ’ |
| 4 | There had to be some missing piece to Jane 's story . |
| 5 | The NEC believed that there had to be changes and had already begun wide-ranging consultations . |
| 6 | Jenny Riley , a recruitment consultant and parliamentary candidate in Newcastle East in 1987 , said there had to be ‘ massive ’ programmes of training and retraining . |
| 7 | He said there had to be a curb on the ‘ smut ’ straw burning left on people 's homes , their clothing and on other farmers ' crops . |
| 8 | But the Bank had been monitoring the situation closely and there had to be ‘ room for debate ’ about whether there would be sufficient demand for office space in the early 1990s for the supply coming on stream . |
| 9 | If there had to be a foreign , non-Ukrainian government in Poltava , then for the local peasantry Great Russians were preferable to Germans . |
| 10 | There was nothing in the structure of the new scheme that meant there had to be losers . |
| 11 | Ultimately there had to be added to the list her marital problems . |
| 12 | Gradually , repeating over and over that there had to be a simple explanation , he had summoned up enough confidence to take hold of the note again , and the feather . |
| 13 | His leg seemed to have stopped bleeding , or very nearly , and he could n't have severed an artery or he 'd have bled to death by now , but all the same there had to be a pretty serious wound under the cloth of his trousers and the faster I could get him to a doctor the better . |
| 14 | There had to be someone else , someone we had n't begun to consider . |
| 15 | There had to be a Muse , he said , if he was to buy it . |
| 16 | There had to be some sort of telepathy at work . |
| 17 | But then , for women there had to be some exceptions — if one became pregnant , for instance . |
| 18 | There had to be some political acceptance both inside the country and , more importantly , outside , because since the end of the Cold War military take-overs were met increasingly by an immediate freeze of foreign aid . |
| 19 | And there had to be a reason for a coup . |
| 20 | Trent knew that he was insufficiently important to be the target so there had to be linkage . |
| 21 | There had to be fifty trucks and cars . |
| 22 | Given the swamp , there had to be a stream or streams feeding it , which would run through a culvert under the highway . |
| 23 | But there had to be blood … |
| 24 | Thus the president was a Maronite , the prime minister a Sunni , the speaker of parliament a Shia ; even in parliament , there had to be six Christians for every five Muslims . |
| 25 | If there had to be some sort of overall commander , he naturally felt that this should be himself . |
| 26 | So far as serious crime was concerned , three conditions had to be satisfied : the crime had to be really serious ; the normal methods of investigation had to have been tried and failed ; and there had to be good reason to believe that the interception would result in a conviction ( Birkett , 1957 ) . |
| 27 | First , there had to be a major subversive or espionage activity that was likely to injure the national interest , and secondly the material likely to be obtained by the interception had to be of direct use in compiling the information necessary for the security services to carry out the tasks laid upon them by the state . |
| 28 | The first of these conditions ( which in some respects contrast sharply with the regulation in Britain before 1985 ) was that there had to be factual grounds to suspect a person of having committed a crime contrary to the security of the state . |
| 29 | For security warrants , there had to be evidence of major subversive or espionage activity . |
| 30 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |