Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion had to be integrated with its surrounding society , not in a subservient position , but forming the vital heart of the culture . |
| 2 | The new religion had to be seen to meet existing needs , and not to overtax the courage its converts would need to break with the religion of their ancestors . |
| 3 | I think the association had in the early a very close working relationship with Radio Brighton and we certainly keep contact with Radio Medway , Radio Brighton and all the other television and radio companies which are active within the region . |
| 4 | They were how his thinking had to be . |
| 5 | But Fischer 's quick thinking had at least given him an insight into their apparent reasons . |
| 6 | A FORMER Mayor of Prestatyn , Mark Garfield Jones , offered a £200 reward last night after his daughter 's horse had to be put down following a collision with a van which did not stop . |
| 7 | The women on the part-time farms were often the only people around during the short winter days so all outside stock had to be attended to by them . |
| 8 | County transport officials also feared that bus companies would face huge bills within the next five years as stock had to be replaced . |
| 9 | The North Oxford brigade had by now formed a coherent clique at one end of the room , separated by a buffer zone of bare carpet from the jolly tradesmen . |
| 10 | The case trotted on at something slightly better than the conventional pace of litigation in this country and arrived at a point where each side had to ‘ discover ’ to the other all relevant documents relating to the matter . |
| 11 | Anything like the commotion that ensued , the hurricane deck and one of the steamer 's boats which was hung aloft broke its range so far , but some ladies who had got settled on that side had to be led down stairs dripping wet . |
| 12 | Each side had to be kept reasonably satisfied . |
| 13 | Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee . |
| 14 | This meeting was the first direct contact between the two countries since their acceptance of the August 1988 ceasefire agreement [ see pp. 35600 ; 36167 ; 36171 ] , although the Iraqi side had in April and May 1990 proposed the holding of a summit meeting in Mecca , Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | The experiment had to be abandoned however as drenching rain was continuous and the tent was blown down . |
| 16 | The experiment had to be ended early because of the behaviour it was inducing in both guards and prisoners . |
| 17 | So there they were , Vinkelkopf and Stu , lording it at Squire 's or Squires ' Wine Bar as the case may be , when who should step in but some vieille flamme of Herr Vinkel 's , and this Fräulein had in tow none other than what turned out to be our own dear Gillian . |
| 18 | Almost all politicians thought Giuliano Amato 's scandal-battered four-party coalition had to be replaced by a broader-based one . |
| 19 | The Christian Democrat-dominated coalition had since 1991 been steadily expanding foreign operations . |
| 20 | Granite rocks that were almost bare in early spring had by late summer acquired a thin growth of brown diatoms ( Navicula , Fragilaria , Achnanthes , Licmophora ) and filamentous green algae ( Ulothrix , Enteromorpha , Cladophora , Monostroma ) , growing upward in a narrow band upward from mean low tide level . |
| 21 | To administer and collect income tax a new arm of administration had to be created comprising experts , officials and clerks : an " army " which in terms of its efficiency and rapacity came to be the equal of the long-esteemed Excise . |
| 22 | While the Bakufu administration had for several decades been subject to criticisms from within its own ranks , a more serious threat to its supremacy emerged from within domains traditionally hostile to it . |
| 23 | Elsewhere there was no need to set up special bodies , but it is clear that much local administration had in practice to be devolved into the hands of local men . |
| 24 | The English politicians and Whitehall civil servants sent to govern Northern Ireland were quick to grasp that Provisional IRA violence had to be contained by physical force or their administration would collapse in chaos with probably some of their own number murdered in the process . |
| 25 | In the second case ( Reg. v. Morris ) the defendant had in similar manner switched price labels on goods in a supermarket but was not arrested until after he had passed the check-out point and paid the lesser prices for the goods . |
| 26 | Scott J concluded that if this were a case in which there was any question or threat of general disclosure by the defendant of confidential information concerning the way in which the plaintiff carried on its business or concerning any details of the affairs of any of its clients there would be no answer to the claim for an injunction ; but it was not general disclosure that the defendant had in mind . |
| 27 | In the absence of a university college it was the nearest the Gold Coast had to an institution of higher education . |
| 28 | North of the churchyard itself lay the Old School Room , built in 1828 at.a cost of £127 8s. 4d. ; it served its purpose very adequately until the passing of the 1870 Education Act , at which time decisions about the future had to be made . |
| 29 | But my mother 's image of my future had to be challenged : I was not to marry ; I would be her companion at all times in a perfect mother and daughter symbiosis ; with my teacher 's salary I would buy her a fridge and a washing machine and take care of her . |
| 30 | It was difficult to sleep that night , not only because the floor was hard , but because we could n't escape the worry of what the future had in store for us . |