Example sentences of "[adv] had to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children literally had to ‘ toe the line ’ — a circle painted on the floor for the use of classes . |
| 2 | The difficulties of constructing the road ( and even more so the railway ) are plain to see : much had to be cut out of the living rock , netted to arrest stonefalls , and at one point both pass through a tunnel . |
| 3 | But much had to be dealt with around the mouth and collarbone ration , and his 50th innings as captain , in his 88th Test , closed with an awkward , hurried jab to short leg off the chest . |
| 4 | But much had to be done before any real progress could be made , and essentially this lay in the problem of land acquisition and assembly . |
| 5 | His opportunity to answer necessarily had to be deferred until the trial was over , and he has now had an opportunity to be heard . |
| 6 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 7 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 8 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 9 | When in position the confection obviously had to be protected from the effects of the sea water until the frogman had positioned the mine and was ready to ‘ an ’ it . |
| 10 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 11 | They only had to be with you . |
| 12 | Men only had to be 21 , and have 6 months ' residence/occupation of business premises . |
| 13 | What was it about him , that he only had to be near for her natural calm professionalism to fly out of the window ? |
| 14 | Because he only had to be in the same room for her nervous system to run haywire , and she could only take so much punishment . |
| 15 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 16 | He was quite a forceful preacher , too intelligent for the majority of his congregation , so that the rather dry instructive sermons to which he inclined personally had to be diluted and sweetened to suit their taste . |
| 17 | Because of this ritual we wondered if Madame was privy to his secret , if she knew the story , if she sat by him because she knew that O 's great self-possession and his quietness were in fact the signs of a pain which had to be kept hidden , a pain which stayed fresh and so had to be controlled every hour of the night . |
| 18 | However , any drawings of the women were forbidden , and so had to be constructed using many sources of information . |
| 19 | " In the narrow mind of this Boy Scout person , with his doll 's face ( popin ) , who only just knew where I ran was , the Shah was a dictator who put people in prison and so had to be replaced as soon as possible with a democracy like the USA " . |
| 20 | What carried pagan religious significance , and thus had to be shunned , and what was mere urban romping , and might therefore be — just — tolerated ? |
| 21 | Further , 25% of tutors ' fees were not grant-aided and thus had to be met from other sources principally donations , subscriptions and through appeals to branches , with some assistance from the National WEA when its own difficult financial position allowed , usually about £50 a year . |
| 22 | The myth of a Maronite majority thus had to be accepted by the Muslims for Lebanon 's ‘ democracy ’ to work . |
| 23 | After six weeks Moz began to mellow , and the headstall no longer had to be kept on him . |
| 24 | With the advent of agricultural owner-occupancy in the years after the Second World War and the departure of the landlords or their factors , their authority no longer had to be sought . |
| 25 | The Headmaster no longer had to be a clergyman ( though Gurney in fact became a deacon in 1848 and was eventually ordained in 1853 ) . |
| 26 | He no longer had to consciously listen out for the psychic interference that pervaded the island . |
| 27 | There were other ways in which the years 1938–43 can be seen as a continuum in which reforming hopes of the interwar years no longer had to be deferred . |
| 28 | Since the Secret Committee on the Peasant Question no longer had to be secret it was renamed the " Main " Committee in January 1858 . |
| 29 | Somehow it seemed degrading to seek work this way , but vets no longer had to be anonymous . |
| 30 | They just had to be there and play well and perform well . |