Example sentences of "had [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | A different one every week but they had to be believable . |
| 32 | The men 's final began in truly exciting style with an abundance of winning shots on both sides and looked to be a most promising match until play had to be suspended at 3–2 . |
| 33 | Unfortunately , the ladies doubles final had to be cancelled , but the men 's title was taken by Pashley and Carswell . |
| 34 | It was easy to stand back and view what had been accomplished , decide what had to be done and move straight in again with the view fresh in memory . |
| 35 | Whatever curves I specified had to be made using a bandsaw , a drum-sander , spokeshave and scraper . |
| 36 | Careful thought had to be given to assembly and I found that the easiest way was to join all the inner to the outer legs first , making eight rectangular frames . |
| 37 | This flat had to be sold by the council , and the ADC states that by allowing tenants to purchase such dwellings , the Government will ensure that over time younger households will buy up accommodation formerly occupied by older people ; |
| 38 | They were building new railways across the world , but there had to be an extraordinary reason to do that in Britain . |
| 39 | It had been derailed at the entrance while approaching at speed with a sleeper service from Penzance ; miraculously there were no serious injuries , though much of the track at the station throat had to be relaid . |
| 40 | The West Country 's joy at being able to combine quality and tradition in the shape of brand-new brown-and-cream-liveried bus-based four-wheeled diesel units for local branch services turned to dismay when their long wheelbase caused ear-splitting squeals on tight curves , and they had to be rapidly replaced by the thirty-year-old DMUs they had supplanted , fortunately not yet scrapped . |
| 41 | But by 1985 the sad reality had to be faced that — so far as InterCity was concerned — the market had changed , probably for ever . |
| 42 | As already mentioned , many plans had to be changed in the light of the recession and these included reduction of the number of Cross Country HSTs . |
| 43 | The question had to be asked : could the purchase of new trains produce savings sufficient to cover the cost of servicing their capital costs as well as reducing the burden on the PSO ? |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | But , if underfloor engines and transmissions were to be used , they had to be in a different league of reliability and performance from the DMUs which BR had been running since the 1950s . |
| 46 | By repetition , he did not mean that every time a phrase was repeated it had to be the same . |
| 47 | They had to be well-proportioned , elegant and behave as rulers of a kingdom and thus able to command the attention of all . |
| 48 | The rules stated that artistic works had to be inspired by the ancient Greek arts , be symmetrical , properly proportioned and balanced round a centre . |
| 49 | However , when ballets were performed for the public , professional dancers took the place of courtiers and technical innovations had to be made . |
| 50 | For example : certain dances had to be composed with two sections only , such as the earliest minuets , which made the shape of a ‘ Z ’ , i.e. a diagonally straight line with an acute angle at each end . |
| 51 | He realised , as did later choreographers , that the steps and patterns of such material had to be properly displayed to the audience , not just danced for themselves . |
| 52 | They had to be more specific about the traditionally accepted forms of behaviour , customs , occupations and particular national characteristics . |
| 53 | ‘ Because of contracts and forward planning , there had to be an orderly change from government monopoly to co-op . ’ |
| 54 | The whole unit had to be dismantled to allow a new base to be fitted — a costly and time-consuming disaster , which taught me that 11pm on Saturday , at the end of a tiring day , is not the time to be doing d-i-y ! |
| 55 | ‘ Eventually , Max had to be escorted off the set . |
| 56 | Reluctantly , Scottie had to be left in kennels in Ostend while her family applied for her entry papers in England . |
| 57 | Of those , only two had to be destroyed . |
| 58 | Obviously the other side of the gap had to be blocked in , and to represent the 1840s the choice fell on Timofey Granovsky , in his time a renowned liberal professor and public speaker , and to a lesser extent a man of letters . |
| 59 | Impetus behind the endeavour was the fact that ‘ … use of the telegraph increased in significance , the greater the distance that had to be covered ’ 1 . |
| 60 | If this meant there were potential conflicts between research and pedagogy , that was a price that had to be paid . |