Example sentences of "had to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been hurt by it and have had to seriously think about how to make themselves better . |
| 2 | He would have had to be as different as T. S. Eliot ; and there 's an end of that speculation ! |
| 3 | ‘ Although it is argued that fear of punitive jury awards has made the US business safety-conscious , quite a price has had to be paid for that by way of corporate and insurance company bankruptcy , the closing of municipal facilities and the practice of defensive medicine . ’ |
| 4 | It was cut out of conference papers and replaced with a notice slipped into the file saying : ‘ The proposed paper on the Aids monitor has unfortunately had to be withdrawn , since it has not been possible to synchronise the publication with the Health Education Authority 's own report on the 1988 data , expected in the near future . ’ |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the decision to sell Saatchi 's ailing business consultancy division has put additional strains on Saatchi management and a number of senior managers have had to be moved to new positions . |
| 6 | With cemeteries to maintain all over the world it is nor surprising that a variety of arrangements , contracts and agreements have had to be set up to ensure proper care and maintenance . |
| 7 | He exposes the vague way in which Read deploys scientific vocabulary , pointing out how much work had had to be done by a great many people and already popularized , before a literary critic could talk in this way . |
| 8 | It is now commonplace to say that the Thatcher governments have had to be highly interventionist in order to extend the market , increase the rights of consumers , and reduce producer power . |
| 9 | Perhaps other parties , simply because they have lacked the British Labour party 's advantages , have necessarily had to be more adaptable and willing to make alliances . |
| 10 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that everything in this world has had to be designed ? ’ asks Sir Terence Conran , pausing for the significance of his question to sink in . |
| 11 | In Art History the rehabilitation of artists and bodies of work which have been overlooked has been going on since Vasari made such a good job of classifying Florentine art that all other art in Italy and beyond has had to be defined , at least until this century , and at some level even now , in relation to Vasari 's classifications , or at least in relation to the model of stylistic evolution which he outlined . |
| 12 | Perhaps if the National Front had been excluded , the racism they stand for would have had to be faced up to , ‘ making it worse ’ for those very genteel people in charge of education . |
| 13 | And now a third major part has had to be changed . |
| 14 | An attempt was made to preserve a sense of the large , formerly unitary space of the mill 's second storey which had had to be subdivided to create the dining- and food preparation rooms , by ‘ unifying ’ the stair hall and dining-room through very large sliding doors which formed the end panels of the dining-room rear wall . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've had this idea ’ , said Lewis , ‘ of letters from a senior devil to a junior devil ’ The Screwtape Letters brought into literary use qualities which Lewis had had to a highly developed degree ever since adolescence . |
| 16 | Ever since William had started school , Diana had had to be based in the south . |
| 17 | A government-financed horticulture nursery in Belfast falsified the value of its plants for 13 years to the extent that more than £500,000 of public money has had to be written off . |
| 18 | Dusty samples have had to be unearthed for his refreshment . |
| 19 | The National Audit Office , Parliament 's financial watchdog , in a report published yesterday estimates that another £330 million has had to be paid out to cover ‘ premature maintenance . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've had to be very , very careful and say ‘ you ca n't afford it ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Surrey managers said that many elderly day patients who would normally be carried by non-emergency crews have had to be readmitted to hospital in the past three months . |
| 22 | Yesterday Mr Olsen said the company had been approached by CITIC about the possible purchase of a holding back in November and the talks had reached a point at which they had had to be made public . |
| 23 | The popularity of road transport has meant that railways have either had short shrift , as in Britain , where investment per kilometre is about one-third that in France , or have had to be heavily subsidized , as in France and Germany . |
| 24 | The Lanes ' vat has had to be fitted with a new stainless steel liner . |
| 25 | The Gospel Green wooden truckle ends have had to be replaced with pvc equivalents to satisfy current health standard requirements . |
| 26 | But exceptions have had to be made for words like prie-Dieu ( prayer-stool ) , which will remain without an x in the plural so as to avoid blasphemous implications . |
| 27 | And how blurry would that policy have had to be in order to be described as common ? |
| 28 | In addition to the cuts in its ground forces , some military orders have had to be postponed . |
| 29 | Previous UN bosses have had to tip-toe round the twin dangers of Soviet veto and American mistrust . |
| 30 | In these hard and unforgiving times , some people have struggled as they 've never had to before . |