Example sentences of "had [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Councillor David Costello , the council 's planning chairman , said the need for a speedy report from Quayle Munro had to be impressed upon the company . |
| 32 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 33 | But actually , because they were very tight , they had to be whacking great things so that they would n't bend under the pressure . |
| 34 | This assumption that films had to be bland to be entertaining , and refusal to acknowledge that movies could usefully enable audiences to deal with fears and nightmares , went along with an unwillingness to acknowledge that audience tastes and sensitivities were being shifted by television . |
| 35 | Prayer itself therefore had to be personal , spontaneous and joyous . |
| 36 | The heart of the new Bugatti had to be radical to match its nimble frame . |
| 37 | In order to assume his new role as leader of the party , his dislike of Dickens had to be muted , to put it mildly . |
| 38 | The Secretary of State for Scotland decided who should go to the party , but it appears that you had to be rich , a local landowner or preferably both to receive an invitation . |
| 39 | These speeches had to be rich in literary illusion and ruminative aphorism . |
| 40 | In the earlier regime it was accepted that rules had to be general to some extent , and open to change to allow for adaptation to changing circumstances . |
| 41 | The new , the really new , had to be possible , since all the old wisdoms had proved themselves ineffective . |
| 42 | It had to be possible . |
| 43 | It had to be possible , for someone else had obviously located that opening . |
| 44 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 45 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |
| 46 | Such work had to be minimal if the project was to remain viable . |
| 47 | Conversation had to be minimal , but they did guide me through the maze of one-way streets , diversions and road-works which makes driving in Prague difficult even if there are no other cars on the streets . |
| 48 | The settlement which was worked out had to be palatable to all the leading protagonists : Whig and Tory politicians in the Lords and Commons ; the Church Establishment and the Protestant Nonconformists ; and the new monarchs themselves , William and Mary . |
| 49 | To be at Group Headquarters at all one had to be competent — I think the Met girls who were chosen had to be very neat with their pens . |
| 50 | Every movement had to be perfect . |
| 51 | Everything had to be perfect for M. Lacroix . |
| 52 | Once we had got our jobs for the morning we set about then eagerly as everything had to be perfect right down to the last detail . |
| 53 | His timing had to be perfect to check the player and avoid the risk of a penalty . |
| 54 | The box had to be flat-packed but assembled without glue ; it had to be portable and reasonably waterproof . |
| 55 | He had to be desperate to ask . |
| 56 | If you were desperate enough , it was the only way to travel , but on a frosty night in the middle of December , you had to be desperate . |
| 57 | It is believed , however , that some early igneous rocks , which had to solidify from a molten state , are proof that some atmospheric gases ( such as carbon dioxide , nitrogen and water vapour ) had to be present to turn them into something approaching earthlike rocks and clays by a primitive ‘ weathering ’ process . |
| 58 | Certain of the magistrates were nominated to a special inner group , some of whom had to be present if a session of the magistrates ' court was to be lawful . |
| 59 | And I had to say this in front of my mother who had to be present , which was even more degrading . |
| 60 | The government rejected this as being tantamount to handing over one-third of the country 's municipalities to the guerrillas , and insisted that the armed forces had to be present in every part of the national territory . |