Example sentences of "have to be content [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | WIMBLEDON v LIVERPOOL Wimbledon are unchanged , which means Lawrie Sanchez has to be content with a substitute 's role . |
2 | Peter has to be content with the single class reader provided by the school , which he already knows by heart . |
3 | That intolerable woman , she thought bitterly , had managed to become president of the Tollemarche Downtown Community Centre by a majority of a single vote , and Mrs Frizzell had had to be content with the vice-presidency , which office she declared gave her all the work and none of the authority . |
4 | She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time . |
5 | With the advent of computerised axial tomography ( CAT scan ) this is likely to be less of a problem in the future , but in the past researchers have had to be content with less sophisticated methods . |
6 | The Australians have had to be content with the second favourites slot in front of their home crowd . |
7 | Although you are all for outings with a pack , you will have to be content with your lot for now . |
8 | As it was , he will have to be content with a worthy second prize from the Captain . |
9 | As it was , he will have to be content with a worthy second prize and undoubted attention from that pernicious body of men , who seem to be hovering forever around the competition results waiting to strike — the handicapping committee ! ’ |
10 | You 'll just have to be content with the JB instead . |
11 | In these cases , analysis may have to suffice , or feminists may have to be content with informal , guerilla-style resistance . |
12 | Since we shall have to be content with inexact knowledge we will not insist that our electron is to be found at a definite point but simply require that it is localised within an interval of space of length Ax . |
13 | Maybe he 'll have to be content with merely doing all the work , but there 's compensations in being indispensable , too . ’ |
14 | 286 users will have no chance to use it , and will have to be content with Windows over DOS if the GUI is where they want to be . |
15 | ‘ I 'm afraid you 'll have to be content with just knowing my room number ! ’ she snapped . |
16 | If the mortgagee will not consent to the husband being released from the mortgage , then the husband will have to be content with an indemnity from the wife ( see Precedents 7 and 8 ) . |
17 | As a result , on-loan Jon Gittens will have to be content with a substitute 's role . |
18 | So I said well you will just have to be content with me because you 'll because my husband has no time . |
19 | Now , at forty-three , he had to be content with cardboard bloaters ! |
20 | It was afternoon — the morning had gone on Crabb Robinson — which meant that all the ample , high , soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent 's desk , ensphered by the Catalogue , were taken , and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between these spokes . |
21 | From 19 BC none but the emperor was permitted to enjoy a triumph , and victorious generals had to be content with the nominal honours of the ornamenta triumphalia . |
22 | The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme . |
23 | To be horrified — surely the purpose of the horror movie — we had to be content with films about psychopathic killers who lurked in bushes or deserted mansions . |
24 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |
25 | Even then , most great men had to be content with ‘ motte and bailey ’ , with a mound having a wooden lookout tower on top as a central defensive position , and a large enclosure surrounded by an earth rampart in which living quarters could be sited . |
26 | In disbelief , Montgomerie had to be content with third spot . |
27 | She had hoped for an audience with the Prime Minister , but had to be content with the publicity of being there . |
28 | But I had to be content with a phone call . ’ |
29 | Ian 's kid sister , who was playing mothers and fathers with her friends in the crawl space under the porch , said it was marvellous , so they had to be content with this infant praise and with taking her and her mud-covered friends for a ride round the block . |
30 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |