Example sentences of "had [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 There were other things that had to be reconciled , and we hear presently of ‘ a role of inherent superiority which came to me from outside , from the servants among others .
2 But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural .
3 As has already been seen , it was the style of both church and politicians to avoid their mutual consultations being known , which tells us that the secularity of the state at that time was partially a façade , but one which it was felt by both interested parties had to be maintained , probably so as not to confuse the faithful .
4 It indicates that a real change did eventually take place after all , in so far as freedom of information and the inappropriateness of direct consultation without public mediation eventually became accepted as something which , at worst , had to be risked and something which , at best , formed an essential task of the construction of a Christian conscience in a Christian society .
5 It announced that , if doctrine as opposed to Bible stories was to be a part of school education , then such religious education could not adopt a common denominator approach between the churches , but had to be total in its presentation of what the Roman catholic church considered to be the truth , otherwise such an approach would be ‘ dangerous ’ for the children ( Gaine 1968 : 164 ) .
6 Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death .
7 I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all .
8 That is why it had to be big .
9 Though my early dream of cones directly related to moulds and maintained in course of 180° rotation had to be abandoned .
10 Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’
11 Even young Mr Yardley had to be a possibility , if Mrs Doran was right and he had been ‘ hanging around ’ the tent instead of pursuing job opportunities in Burford .
12 However , I knew that Sarah and John had to be still around .
13 The scheme had an interior logic to it but in order to see it you had to be , let me see , stark raving mad , I suppose .
14 I had n't given up , but that was an ever-present temptation which had to be fought .
15 In consequence , according to the rule book , I now had to be taken seriously .
16 Limewashing began in October and all the houses had to be finished by the end of February , as many would then have the heat turned up to set their inmates into growth .
17 The emphatic denigration contained in this locational insult had to be heard to be understood , and in many ways it paralleled the dismissive tone used to deride the ‘ civvy ’ , for nuances of speech and tone have immense meaning to insiders .
18 We had to be 5′ 10″ at least and most were 6′ 0″ or over .
19 During my relatively short period as a city detective , I was implicitly aware that quality had to be sacrificed to quantity , for the ‘ arrest list ’ was checked monthly and the numerical totals counted .
20 Had to be responsible all her life .
21 I just knew this had to be coming .
22 He felt as abject as a convalescent child and had to be helped up the three stone flights to his cell .
23 Could n't they see how it had to be nourished ?
24 And , in any case such dual commitment Leonard could not share , commitment for him had to be the expression of what drove him ; he was obsessive about his poetry and his life in art .
25 Prayer itself therefore had to be personal , spontaneous and joyous .
26 I had to be rid of them , I decided .
27 I had to be rid of the English boy .
28 I had to be dreaming .
29 Now I had to be on my guard against AIDS and the Devil .
30 The answer , ask someone who had to be a true native .
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