Example sentences of "had to [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another measure , the Government extended the Landlord and Tenant Act protection to the licensed trade but they would not bring it in immediately — it had to be implemented some time in the future . |
| 2 | In compliance with the rules laid down by Sir Hans Sloane 's original deed of conveyance ( see p. 22 ) , dried and labelled specimens of fifty species grown in the Garden had to be sent each year to the Royal Society . |
| 3 | Unemployment was , she said , " the primary cause of the inequalities in our society " and 300,000 new jobs had to be created each year . |
| 4 | Every morning , rain or shine , school or holidays , they sat round at breakfast deciding what work had to be done that day and sharing it out . |
| 5 | In colonial Ruanda-Burundi , several weeks of free labour had to be given each year by the commune to build up terraces , bunds and other erosion works . |
| 6 | Dean Acheson informed various American ambassadors in late April 1949 that the Japanese government had to be given more authority so as to re-establish civilian government properly . |
| 7 | ( It is significant that it could not be called ‘ Christ ’ but had to be given another name ; moreover that it had to be explained what this was , whereas a man on the cross would have required no explanation . ) |
| 8 | Even for somebody who spoke French it was a mouthful , and it was tedious because it had to be repeated each time one spoke to a Corporal or Sergeant . |
| 9 | About one-fifth of the force had to be replaced each year , partially because many recruits were found unsuitable . |
| 10 | It was as if he were still competing for Martha : every return to harbour became a race between his ketch and Sam 's ; every catch had to be compared for weight and quality , and every new little luxury Harry purchased for himself or his wife had to be announced that evening in the Russell alehouse as further proof of his superiority . |
| 11 | It was a relief when a secretary appeared — sent by his oldest daughter — and summoned him away on business that had to be decided that night . |
| 12 | By dawn the trench would probably be little more than eighteen inches deep , but it had to be occupied all day , while the enemy gunners resumed their work of levelling . |
| 13 | Loyalty had to be reaffirmed each time it was required ; it could not be assumed merely by reason of inhabiting a particular locality . |
| 14 | In addition , this 1678 Act ‘ for lessening the importation of Linnen from beyond the Seas , and the encouragement of the Woollen and Paper Manufacturers of the Kingdome ’ further instructed that the curate of every parish keep a register , provided at the expense of the parish , into which had to be entered all burials together with the affidavits taken by the justice of the peace , mayor , ‘ or such like chief officer ’ in the parish or , ‘ if there be no officer , then by any curate within the county where the corpse was buried ( except him in whose parish the corpse was buried ) , who must administer the oath , and set his hand gratis ’ . |
| 15 | It went on until the evening , as the work had to be finished that day . |
| 16 | From this had to be deducted another element in a piece of crude arithmetic which came to dominate OPEC 's expectations . |
| 17 | A sign book , The language of the Silent World , became a best seller and had to be reprinted several times before demand was satisfied . |
| 18 | But he told reporters that the arrangements for local elections in 1994 and legislative elections a year later , at the centre of the dispute with Beijing , had to be agreed this year . |
| 19 | ’ A book in the J. C. R. had to be signed each week to record the hours of war work required of us in return for the privilege of remaining students , and the variety of jobs was immense , including , in the long vacation , harvest and fruit-picking camps in various parts of rural England . |