Example sentences of "had to be [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This assumption that films had to be bland to be entertaining , and refusal to acknowledge that movies could usefully enable audiences to deal with fears and nightmares , went along with an unwillingness to acknowledge that audience tastes and sensitivities were being shifted by television . |
| 2 | Keepers discovered her desperately fighting for life at the West Midlands Safari Park where she had to be hand-reared before being transferred to the Kingsley wildlife sanctuary , Cheshire , where she takes every opportunity to hitch a ride from the resident Bull Terrier bitch . |
| 3 | George did not like being firm with Lennie but he knew that he had to be cruel to be kind . |
| 4 | It was a very very rare occasion , er you had to be ill to be off school . |
| 5 | But the mountain had to be willing to be moved , which turned her thoughts to ashes in her mouth . |