Example sentences of "have to [be] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is my last word on the subject , I 'm sorry it has to be so close to bathos , but that 's how I feel . |
| 2 | I speak English , French and Spanish but not the others mentioned , so I have had to be very open to inferring sociolinguistic information and to being wary of my own assumptions . |
| 3 | If she wanted this job , she would have to be reasonably pleasant to him , however much it stuck in her throat at times . |
| 4 | ‘ The National Front Disco ’ is such a self-evidently silly title and the sentiments and tone so obviously satirical that you 'd have to be pretty blinkered to be offended by it . |
| 5 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 6 | Bearing in mind the notion of a portfolio spread of risk , directors do not have to be so risk-averse to all types of investment — especially where , with new technology , it may indicate the creation of an option to stay in business . |
| 7 | Why should it have to be so difficult to be taken seriously ? |
| 8 | But you do n't have to be so beastly to him , Pickles . |
| 9 | We had to be particularly polite to him because of the enormous interests of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company ( now BP ) in the country … |
| 10 | She supposed you had to be pretty thick-skinned to be a Member of Parliament . |
| 11 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 12 | But these cats had to be totally black to be really evil , in the minds of the pious worshippers . |
| 13 | I was still under-housemaid , because you had to be very clever to be a head housemaid or head still-room maid ; and I said : |
| 14 | You had to be very courageous to be a democrat . |
| 15 | I think I think er these days people take er take baths and showers quite often and you have to be pretty close to somebody before you smell them I guess , I mean I hope you do anyway . |
| 16 | I do n't think it means you have to be completely loyal to them , because I do believe you can sometimes take enjoyment in a friend 's small difficulties . |
| 17 | Everybody thinks you have to be really strong to be a blacksmith . |
| 18 | You have to be very young to be really altruistic in love . ’ |
| 19 | No , I think there 's some people you have to be very blunt to . |
| 20 | On the whole it is a matter that you have to learn the hills , you have to be very committed to the corners so that you get the thing right and as fast as possible , and you do n't have that much chance to learn . |
| 21 | Obviously there is a very delicate balance between erm demanding too much of people 's time in consulting and talking with you , and not involving them at all , and you have to be very sensitive to how much time people are prepared to give and how much they want to be involved in something . |
| 22 | It is erm on a highway and we have to be very sensitive to the erm not treating anybody whether erm it be a member of parliament or a councillor in anyway which would not to the authorities . |