Example sentences of "you have to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm why do you have to be strong to be a policeman ? |
| 2 | and you had to be nice to everybody do n't you ? |
| 3 | By the time that you were ready to go up into Standard Three , you had to be proficient to the twelve times table but it did not stop there for later on you had measurement , area , weight and many others . |
| 4 | This time I 've got no crazy , pointless altruism restraining me , and you must long since have discarded whatever distorted idealism made you believe you had to be faithful to Jones in fact and thought , since you claim to have had at least one other relationship between your spells with him . |
| 5 | It was a very very rare occasion , er you had to be ill to be off school . |
| 6 | I mean when I wrote this book of bible poems in fact it took me a very long time and I started all sorts of subjects which I did n't finish , so , no , you have to be obedient to whether the poem intends to get written or not . |
| 7 | Cos I 'll be , it 's my party , so you have to be nice to me , cos it 's my party basically , cos I consider it |
| 8 | You have to be warm to be alive ? |
| 9 | You have to be cruel to be kind |
| 10 | You have to be cruel to be kind . |
| 11 | As the neck of the pigeon clears the neck of the suit , I grab it , double it back and pinch the bend as hard as I can — remembering you have to be cruel to be kind — scratching my own neck quite badly in the process . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind . |
| 13 | His owner Dick Knowles told Dogs Today : ‘ There 's nothing in the constitution that says you have to be human to be an MP ! |
| 14 | I think that , no matter what you do , you have to be true to yourself . |
| 15 | In Anderson 's words , but with Butcher 's solid agreement , ‘ You have to be true to yourself . |
| 16 | I abhor the poetry voie that makes it special , churchy — — though ’ , Beth interrupts , ‘ you have to be true to the rhythm in a poem , that 's vital , the lifeblood of the thing … ‘ |
| 17 | You have to be prepared to be a bit dumb . ’ |
| 18 | I think you have to er , er , you have to be a certain kind of person , you have to be prepared to anything do n't you ? |
| 19 | I SEE A COMPARISON BETWEEN yourselves and ‘ The Most Dangerous Band In The World ’ on the Letterman Show in America , in that you have to be able to back anyone who comes on the show . |