Example sentences of "[conj] have to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the story that has to be meaningful to , and has to have significance for , the individual reader . |
| 2 | Unlike conference interpreters who usually have advance warning of their assignments , community interpreters have to be able to work without having time to prepare and have to be familiar with the specialised contexts . |
| 3 | ‘ It ca n't be much fun living next door to Dersingham and having to be grateful to him for having given you a living . |
| 4 | On only one occasion was I given an address , and had to be content with those of head offices . |
| 5 | To his chagrin , Jane was not appointed to any official position during World War I , and had to be content with privately supporting naval recruiting and propaganda . |
| 6 | Middlesbrough , however , were overhauled by Wirral in the second half of the fixture and had to be content with second place . |
| 7 | Smoking was permitted but the number and timing of cigaretteswere noted on a diary sheet and had to be similar on all study days . |
| 8 | One of them , a calf called Samia , born in February 1985 , was abandoned by her mother and had to be bottle-fed by Anna . |
| 9 | They used to cost about two hundred pounds in those days and that was a heck of a sum in those days you know that sort of thing , how much they cost and had to be careful of them and all that . |
| 10 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 11 | As late as 1934 the New Survey of London Life and Labour was opining that ‘ a large proportion , perhaps a majority , of London working class families are still unable to reach this very modest standard [ a week 's holiday ] and have to be content with day outings on Bank Holidays or Sundays ’ . |
| 12 | The tips of a swept wing are well aft of the centre of lift , and have to be negative in relation to the centre body forward of the bridle points . |
| 13 | She had hoped for an audience with the Prime Minister , but had to be content with the publicity of being there . |
| 14 | We stayed there for five days — hoping to strike it rich , but had to be content with a car full of cuddly toys ! |
| 15 | MIKE McLEAN of West Lancashire finished five under par in the Dry Blackthorn Lancashire PGA stroke-play championship but had to be content with a share of ninth place along with Craig Corrigan from Haigh Hall , Wigan . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | He presented a detailed theoretical analysis of skilled movement , showing that the sequencing of actions , the serial order of behaviour , could not be due to feedback stimuli from one movement triggering the next , as S-R theory argued , but had to be due to central programming of the sequence . |
| 18 | St Dunstan 's emerged from the play-offs to challenge the King 's School in the final contest but had to be satisfied with the runners-up spot . |
| 19 | A few seasons ago , the much-travelled primary schoolteacher was on the verge of a full international appearance , but had to be satisfied with a B cap against Scotland in Galway . |
| 20 | Milligan had two dogs in the final of the Northumberland Gold Cup at Brough Park last month , but had to be satisfied with second-placed Smashiton . |