Example sentences of "which had [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had obligations to the universal episcopate which had to act in harmony for the unity of the church . |
| 2 | Households with less privately-owned land which had to rely on the ‘ public economy ’ ( the forest ) for livestock rearing rather than private land , were less willing to see restrictions placed upon access to forests or to others ' private land for stubble grazing in cases where fodder tree planting on terrace backs was being advocated . |
| 3 | He was obviously worried about the future of a state which had to resort to terror in order to maintain its supremacy . |
| 4 | At the same time , Italy , which had to import some 90 per cent of its coal needs , preferred to buy cheaper , mainly American , coal on the open market rather than deal with its ECSC partners . |
| 5 | The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year . |
| 6 | Then , Bert and Jasper — but not Jack , a fact which had to give her food for thought — met a certain comrade in a certain private house in a suburb . |
| 7 | But it will be undesirable to put the clock back to traditional farming systems , which had to tolerate diseases , weeds and pests when there was no method of control available , even when agriculture was a labour-intensive industry . |
| 8 | There were five dams built , none of which had to undergo frequent repairs , and the total expenditure incurred by the project up to the end of 1987 was $1.4 billion , not $14 billion as the article asserts . |
| 9 | Then there was Mervyn : tall , dark and monosyllabic , with a slow but sure sense of humour which had to circle through his brain . |
| 10 | Estimates that creating the Fsx would cost only ¥165 billion ( at 1985 prices ) were good for nothing more than selling the project to parliament which had to vote the money . |
| 11 | Yards were a typical feature not only of industrial cities but of many a small country town which had to accommodate a rising population . |
| 12 | I believe what you believe , that God came down to Mary , who was a virgin , in the form of a dove — or was that to her mother , so that Mary could get pregnant and be an immaculate conception , which had to happen on account of how sex is so polluting , and give birth to Jesus ? |
| 13 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 14 | As a member of the cabinet which had to cope with the Irish famine , Clanricarde pressed hard for remedial measures , pointing out that from time to time ‘ an adherence to sound principle will cause an immediate sacrifice ’ . |
| 15 | The commonalty were allowed a council of sixty , which had to assent to the decisions of the mayor and aldermen , who took over the powers of the earlier assembly of twenty-four . |
| 16 | This constituted an altogether more active management , which had to concern itself with professional matters . |
| 17 | It had no practical need to reach down further than the drought level of the river which had to leave a gap of at least two or three feet . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One also supplied a report entitled ‘ Pan Am Flight 103 ’ , prepared in January 1989 by the intelligence unit of the Lebanese Forces , which had to do mainly with the substance of intercepted telephone calls to and from the Iranian Embassy in Beirut . |
| 20 | Most damage was suffered by salmon farms , which had to destroy all fish born in 1991 . |
| 21 | The jury , also a an international body , then selected twelve semi-finalists , each of whom played a quintet with the Tokyo String Quartet , and a recital which had to include a piece commissioned by the board for the competition , and of which , therefore , there was no standard interpretation . |
| 22 | You got your sugar ration in the morning which had to last all day : one egg cup full , a red plastic egg cup with ER on the bottom . |
| 23 | But the difference also reflects the need for autarchy within district management teams in the NHS , which had to deal with uncertainty about patient outcomes within a vague set of government guidelines . |
| 24 | This case was successful from a conservation viewpoint , although a considerable investment of time and resources was required from a consortium of interests , which had to take financial risks . |
| 25 | And as for all special schools there is an obligation to provide a scheme for local management of special schools with effect from April this year er we consulted there was a little bit of chasing which had to take place in which you can see in section four of the report but following that chasing , we now ascertain meeting schools on favourable proposals for or against and once a week that , a view of and also undertaking as you know . |
| 26 | Peter Shillinglaw , secretary of New Brighton Lifeboat which had to go into action a few times , said : ‘ I can not help but think the organisers of this race have been very , very lucky over the years . ’ |
| 27 | For example the original was built round the boiler , which had to bear structural stresses . |
| 28 | This was typical ‘ normal science ’ — the very necessary filling-in operation which had to follow the categorically original discoveries made a few years earlier by the chief . |
| 29 | Each guberniia that was officially designated as lying within the famine area was linked up with supposedly ‘ rich ’ gubernii which had to provide supplies . |
| 30 | The oldest member of the convoy was a 1901 Thanomile trike which had to make the journey around site on a trailer because its engine had expired the previous day . |