Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] had [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top of the list would be Television South-West , the West Country contractor , although Mr Romaine said that discussions had yet to be opened . |
| 2 | Victorians , who had yet to discover the stiff upper lip and the view that religion had always to be a serious matter , were passionate people who expressed their feelings freely and often loudly . |
| 3 | The MPRP leader , President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , stated afterwards that efforts had now to be made to promote further democratization and to overcome the current economic crisis . |
| 4 | These were planned for later in the year , although dates had yet to be announced . |
| 5 | The judge would be empowered to grant immediate bail to the defendant if the crimes were those of illegal possession of arms and criminal conspiracy , or to free him or her a year after the start of a trial if sentence had yet to be passed . |
| 6 | De la Puente had rejected opposition demands that the Roman Catholic Church act as a mediator in joint talks between the combined opposition and the government , and he also claimed that areas of agreement and disagreement had yet to be established . |
| 7 | Jones had tried various materials and what he now sought was rather clearly defined — are there neutrons of a specific energy or not ? — and his apparatus was almost completed and ready to go ; the chemists by contrast had to do a broader range of experiments as their problem was more subtle — is there fusion and if so by what process ? — and the necessary materials and apparatus had yet to be assembled . |
| 8 | This meant that concepts and ideas had continually to be tested against specific problems confronted in particular situations . |
| 9 | She felt no particular guilt : merely that marriage was a kind of old-fashioned scale : a tray on either side in which the fors and againsts had somehow to be kept in balance , and that extramarital sex had sometimes to be heaped on one side just to keep it steady because indefinable things were piling on the other . |
| 10 | But a report prepared by a technical committee on constitutional issues , which was to have been discussed on the morning of the arrests , emphasised that significant differences of detail and approach had still to be resolved . |