Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] have [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well that 's the best thing , yo you should n't er you do n't have to be aware .
2 It was held by Lords Hailsham , Cross and Fraser , with Lords Simon and Edmund-Davies dissenting , that there can be no conviction for rape where a man honestly believes that a woman consents to sexual intercourse and that his belief did not have to be reasonable .
3 A genuine grievance did not have to be financial .
4 The BUF set up the January Club , a social and intellectual front whose members did not have to be Fascist and who were addressed by Joyce in his calmer tones .
5 Feelings do not have to be ‘ justified ’ ; they do not have to be rational ; they should never be judged as OK or not-OK , or covered up with positive thoughts and affirmations .
6 The keys given in the index entries do not have to be actual keys .
7 Peacekeeping forces do not have to be strong enough to overwhelm an army ; but they must be something more than score-keepers or targets .
8 Repton himself comments in his Enquiry that ‘ the ‘ antiquated cot ’ , whose chimney is choked with ivy , may perhaps yield a residence for squalid misery and want ’ ; and an awareness develops that cottages do not have to be ruinous to be picturesque .
9 Our critical strategies do not have to be bound by the nature of the object of our attentions ; they do not have to be discipline-specific .
10 You do not have to be clever , or to know all the right psychological approaches ; you just need to be kind , and to care , to become a sanity-saving safety-valve in someone else 's life .
11 The examples of Denmark or of the other members of the Community may in some respects be encouraging , in others not ; but certainly to look into classrooms beyond the Channel , however superficially , is to be reminded that written curricula and centralised administrations do not have to be unwieldy , dictatorial or reactionary .
12 Political equals do not have to be indistinguishable in any respect .
13 You do not have to be tough minded or sombre in mood to acknowledge the truth that the whole concept of A Retreat , in the older senses of the phrase , is now redundant or used up , gone out of mind .
14 With this knowledge inside them , people do not have to be afraid of their own anger , nor their own assertiveness .
15 They do not have to be able to pilot a 747 or manage a public company share issue to comprehend the explanation of the standards expected of those that do .
16 The artists do not have to be able to draw , though it helps : they do , however , have to be able to ‘ visualize ’ a design or a film and be able to explain their ideas by words and rough pictures so that a specialized artist or photographer can produce the finished illustration .
17 I do not have to be able to see his face .
18 On the other hand , people do not have to be conscious of the system of production as such .
19 They have to make the system work , of course , but in order to do this , they do not have to be conscious of its nature .
20 But good aphorisms do not have to be meaningful in a strict sense .
21 The division of the x and y scales do not have to be identical .
22 There do not have to be any homeless people !
23 However , I was concerned to read the remarks attributed to sole practitioner Geoffrey Day in which he observes that firms which ‘ train certifieds ' do not have to be formal training offices .
24 Careful management can , however , mitigate such effects so that sporting activities do not have to be incompatible with conservation interests .
25 For example , they do not have to be qualified accountants ; indeed , the majority are not , although the proportion that are is increasing .
26 Composts for herbs in containers do not have to be elaborate mixtures , and the prepacked soilless kinds whose bulk is peat and sand , or those containing loam such as the John Innes mixes , are excellent .
27 Ghosts did n't have to be stupid and scary like in stories Mrs Mills read them .
28 GUIL : ( Shaking with rage and fright ) It could have been — it did n't have to be obscene
29 But it did n't have to be that way , when you were in love .
30 They were narrowly beaten by a four-nation , eight-man team of elite males in Italy in a spectacle that proved you did n't have to be one of the team to enjoy the fun .
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