Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 2 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 3 | Half a love surely had to be better than none at all ? |
| 4 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |
| 5 | ‘ We have begun to lose our confidence in our institutions , the traditions and bodies that constitute a very large part of the national culture — especially in the monarchy which a year ago appeared to be one of the unassailable certainties of British life . ’ |