Example sentences of "had to be [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 2 | ‘ We decided Mervyn 's tremendous contribution — one of imagination and professionalism — over the six years he was secretary had to be acknowledged in some way . |
| 3 | Spaces had to be left for some animals to be added as and when I found them . |
| 4 | The system was unwieldy , since grant applications had to be submitted for some three hundred individual services , and there were problems in the calculations of costs and hence of the appropriate subsidy ( Joy 1973 : 127–31 ; Parker 1978 : 7 ) . |
| 5 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 6 | Once at sea level , smooth soapstone slabs had to be traversed for some distance to reach the cliff . |
| 7 | She sank back into her extremely comfortable seat and , as Ace picked up a magazine to read , undid her attaché case and took out , it had to be admitted with some deliberate ostentation , notes on high-tech fuel consumption . |
| 8 | It is however impossible to believe that among these — bearing in mind that each applicant had to be sponsored by some reputable person — there were , as some claimed , barbers , man-milliners , tailors , shoemakers , mercers , mutton pie men , rat catchers , razor-strop makers , razor grinders , a druggist 's porter , insolvent debtors , and in general , the out-at-elbow fraternity . |
| 9 | In fact , the country visit had to be postponed for some time , because , although he had promised himself some months ' freedom from engagements , he found himself , as usual , saddled with responsibilities . |