Example sentences of "they had to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A different one every week but they had to be believable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They had to be well-proportioned , elegant and behave as rulers of a kingdom and thus able to command the attention of all . |
| 6 | They had to be more specific about the traditionally accepted forms of behaviour , customs , occupations and particular national characteristics . |
| 7 | Values and principles did not change , he said , but the times in which they had to be applied did change . |
| 8 | With the tension reaching boiling point , it was finally announced that the French officials had allowed the result to stand and they had to be applauded for a sporting decision . |
| 9 | H M Customs and Excise confirmed yesterday that they had to be implemented by 1 January 1990 . |
| 10 | If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information . |
| 11 | Many low caste people who had previously been craft workers turned to farm work , and as farmworkers they had to be paid not in the old feudal terms but an amount definitely related to the work they did . |
| 12 | But this was outside the police remit , and meanwhile , they had to be careful not to jeopardise public tranquillity . |
| 13 | ‘ It was their manner that told me they had to be taken seriously . |
| 14 | They had to be strong . |
| 15 | Dot 's eyes were growing used to the dark just like they had to in the shelter when the warden 's lamp went out . |
| 16 | The ancient Greeks were good horsemen — they had to be . |
| 17 | For the monkeys to successfully avoid receiving electric shocks , they had to be able to communicate with each other and to send and receive information with appropriate facial gestures . |
| 18 | They had to be ready — and able — to do absolutely anything from greeting a minister off a plane to cleaning drains , from handling the press to guiding the helicopter down to its landing site with hand signals . |
| 19 | So in 1831 the commoners rioted in the Forest of Dean , threw down the enclosures , and drove their cattle and sheep into the coppices : they had to be suppressed by soldiers . |
| 20 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 21 | It they suffered in this way , they had to be sprayed with fresh water . |
| 22 | Some designs have been traced to illustrations in Miller 's Figures , although they had to be adapted to fit the curved surfaces of porcelain pieces . |
| 23 | I did not carry out their instructions very well so they had to be very precise in explaining things to me . |
| 24 | Though they had to be 100 per cent fit , and the training was gruelling , officers and men were chosen not just for their brawn but for their intelligence , integrity , self-reliance , and self-discipline . |
| 25 | The armoured or plated dinosaurs include some species that seem too heavily burdened with protective armour to have been very active , but this does not necessarily mean that they had to be cold-blooded . |
| 26 | The bond 's conditions did not allow for this , so even if bought and transferred at less than par between individuals , they had to be redeemed by the Club in full . |
| 27 | I hate to think what we 'd do if they had to be replaced . |
| 28 | They had to be transported from the plant in lead-lined coffins and buried under thick concrete . |
| 29 | She described a recent visit to her local Samaritans ' branch , where a voluntary worker told her that they received telephone calls from teenagers who were ‘ so filled with fear , and so depressed by the constant threat of a nuclear accident ’ that they had to be deterred from committing suicide . |
| 30 | Mozart could not begin composing the arias to his opera before reaching Milan because they had to be written to suit each singer 's voice . |