Example sentences of "have [verb] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh Price Hughes chastised the 1896 Free Church Council meetings for its vociferousness and insisted that all should ‘ submit to those restraints and regulations which the experience of the greatest representative assemblies of the world has proved to be necessary to an intelligent participation in the business as it proceeds ’ . |
| 2 | Are we content with the quality of college provision , which in some instances has appeared to be close to a ‘ care and containment ’ policy , or are we going to ensure that students with disabilities receive the maximum opportunity to realise their potential ? |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher has always realized that her power base lay with back-benchers and has tried to be accessible to them . |
| 4 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 5 | So now I 've got to be cruel to be kind . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've got to be nice to her , because she helped to save my life . ’ |
| 7 | Rachel we 've got to be nice to it . |
| 8 | which means that we 've got to be polite to people and so on . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got to be true to your readership . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got to be fair to Kaiserslautern , they did not pull nine men back behind the ball , they had a go at us . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had wanted to be strong to the end , give no evidence of what this overthrow was doing to her . |
| 14 | It 's not my day really earlier today I had to admit to being grateful to John Gummer now I 'm gon na have to be . |
| 15 | Furthermore the structures of the lexical entries have tended to be proprietary to the system making it impossible to exchange lexicons between systems . |
| 16 | Most recent linguistic explanations have tended to be internal to linguistic theory : that is to say , some linguistic feature is explained by reference to other linguistic features , or to aspects of the theory itself . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She always does , does n't matter what she gets it 's got to be different to anybody else 's and |
| 19 | It 's got to be meaningful to you as an individual , otherwise it wo n't work . |
| 20 | It 's got to be important to the child to make the difference between these two alternatives . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They have proved to be adaptable to a wide variety of climates and environments , able to tolerate heat and cold and with a high resistance to disease . |
| 23 | This might be so after today 's rain , for instance , when the facts about the rain have ceased to be evidence-transcendent to all . |
| 24 | Many other insects have a shift in colour vision similar to the bee 's , and flowers have evolved to be attractive to their eyes . |