Example sentences of "that had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They further confused the tone of a piece that had about it the whiff of 1970s radical agitprop . |
| 2 | It was the planet with the central orbit in a system that had as its focus a symbol of the living God : the most resplendent sun in the universe . |
| 3 | At last Finnan stopped before a high stone house that had as its sign a serpent twisted round a staff . |
| 4 | If only that had of been a grey or a cream |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Impetus behind the endeavour was the fact that ‘ … use of the telegraph increased in significance , the greater the distance that had to be covered ’ 1 . |
| 7 | If this meant there were potential conflicts between research and pedagogy , that was a price that had to be paid . |
| 8 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 9 | In his address , Sir Thomas Kennedy spoke of the enormous communications gap that had to be bridged if the Appeal was to be successful , and sought delegates ' help in publicising the Fund and the Appeal especially through the medium of provincial and local newspapers . |
| 10 | The establishment of a secure air-reinforcement route was a problem that had to be solved by the Air Staff in conjunction with the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | In order to help accommodate the costs of the Navy 's new carrier , CVA 01 , and Polaris , and the RAF 's TSR 2 , such projects as the Army 's Blue Water artillery missile were cancelled in August 1962 ; and , despite the pressure on Army manpower , it was decided to run down the Gurkhas from 14,600 to 10,000 rather than cut any more British battalions — a decision that had to be reversed nine months later to meet the needs of the Borneo campaign . |
| 12 | It was something that had to be said but I could see that Aunt Louise did not like it , or even accept the idea . |
| 13 | Apparently , director 's cuts of both The Terminator and The Abyss are in existence , the latter featuring a different ending and £8 million of special effects that had to be dropped for space . |
| 14 | Clair George , listing the things that had to be done — — finding private money , transferring it out of the country , buying arms , shipping them , procuring boats and aircraft — noted that North had been obliged to do all this ‘ with a gum band and some balsa wood ’ . |
| 15 | They were something that had to be removed , like flammable rubbish , so that the president could be ‘ fireproofed ’ from the fury of his own people when news of the secret contacts with Iran hit the newspapers . |
| 16 | But seeing the confusion on her desk , all the things that had to be done , she lost heart . |
| 17 | The distance that had to be covered can be seen in the case of the Primitive Methodists : they had no theological college until 1881 and when the new college in Manchester faced collapse it was only saved by the generosity of Sir William Hartley . |
| 18 | Despite the increase in mechanisation on farms there were still many jobs that had to be done manually . |
| 19 | For the former it allowed the husband time to concentrate on other enterprises whilst in the case of the latter it reduced the work that had to be done by the husband on his return from his off-farm job . |
| 20 | This was not ideal because of fatigue and farm work that had to be carried out at those times . |
| 21 | The long period of gestation of the new legislation which began in the climate of reform typical of the 1970s but became entangled then in the fiscal and ideological retrenchment of the 1980s , reveals the complexity of the political debate and the variety of interests that had to be reconciled in drafting a new legal reference point that would modernize Germany 's approach to all questions of youth while at the same time express continuity . |
| 22 | But then he was n't carrying tons of lead on a keel that had to be dragged through the water . |
| 23 | This meant that Blake was allocated a special cell which was changed at irregular intervals , that had to be examined every day , and Blake and the cell completely searched at least once a fortnight . |
| 24 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
| 25 | All Boy could think of to explain this was that the man was older than he was , and that he actually had a husband in a sort of way , and not just for one night or a few nights , and so that had to be why he felt differently about the films he watched . |
| 26 | Brewing up was easy — all that had to be done was to shift a few boulders to reach a hot spot lower down , and pop a billy-can of snow into the hole . |
| 27 | The canal took 18 years to complete , twice as long as Telford had forecast , and cost more than double what he had estimated , but it was an outstanding engineering achievement for the time , even though the actual length of genuine canal that had to be dug was only 21 miles , since the navigable channel took advantage of existing lochs along the glen . |
| 28 | The bellows were operated by a handle that had to be turned slowly and regularly to ensure a good even fire . |
| 29 | The functional description also recognised the need to agree and implement an archiving and purging policy , making use of the Council 's central records office for storing information that had to be retained but was no longer in regular use . |
| 30 | But no such social constraints exist over possession of books , and the new reading book Peter had asked to buy — that had to be sacrificed . |