Example sentences of "have get to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 So now I 've got to be cruel to be kind .
2 ‘ You 've got to be nice to her , because she helped to save my life . ’
3 Rachel we 've got to be nice to it .
4 which means that we 've got to be polite to people and so on .
5 ‘ If we 're going to break through , we 've got to be prepared to be quick on the button and to say quite risky things . ’
6 ‘ You 've got to be true to your readership .
7 ‘ I 've got to be fair to Kaiserslautern , they did not pull nine men back behind the ball , they had a go at us . ’
8 Because , in the current climate of debate , the drive to preserve the boundaries of class through culture can dissolve ( slip ? ) too easily into a concern with race , with the myth of white ethnicity , the myth , that is , that you 've got to be white to be British .
9 You ca n't expect a man to walk around thinking he 's got to be grateful to them for the rest of his life — it 's ludicrous .
10 She always does , does n't matter what she gets it 's got to be different to anybody else 's and
11 It 's got to be meaningful to you as an individual , otherwise it wo n't work .
12 It 's got to be important to the child to make the difference between these two alternatives .
13 It 's got to be important to the child so that he needs to know whether he means four times two-plus-one or four-times-two plus one , whichever way it is .
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