Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] had to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in position the confection obviously had to be protected from the effects of the sea water until the frogman had positioned the mine and was ready to ‘ an ’ it . |
| 2 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 3 | The rent still had to be paid and it was impossible to sell the lease with so much property available . |
| 4 | TRAINING Running costs had already been identified in the business plan although funds still had to be released officially from the health authority budget . |
| 5 | The non-renewal of ‘ intervention ’ against Afghanistan also had to be reliable and guaranteed . |
| 6 | Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow . |
| 7 | First , this study simply had to be controlled in scope . |
| 8 | The nature of the urban crisis , to which town planning was addressed , also changed in that housing solutions increasingly had to be prepared in recognition of public opinion . |
| 9 | Policewomen sometimes had to be called from other duties in order to deal with an incident which male colleagues felt incapable of handling . |
| 10 | A claim for money generally had to be substantiated by evidence of careful planning , identification of areas of shortfall , prioritising and cost-effective exercises . |
| 11 | The myth of a Maronite majority thus had to be accepted by the Muslims for Lebanon 's ‘ democracy ’ to work . |
| 12 | That pretty girl just had to be Gaynor Summer 's sister , and , sure enough , that was where she went . |
| 13 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 14 | Your shoes always had to be clean , brushed , you see ? |
| 15 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 16 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 17 | In his usual cold manner , Falkenhayn summed up the March results as follows : ‘ owing to the peculiar conformation we could not use these successes to bring our artillery far enough forward , and consequently the preparatory work here had to be continued . ’ |
| 18 | The response of the defendants then had to be looked at . |
| 19 | As one friend notes : ‘ Sarah always had to be the best at everything . |
| 20 | Storerooms and chairs could be found anywhere but the cinematograph still had to be acquired as of course did the films themselves , which the writer did not even deign to mention . |
| 21 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 24 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 25 | But , although the business generally had to be won at lower margins in the face of stiffer competition , our performance should have been very much better , and would have been had we responded more promptly to market fluctuations . |
| 26 | Downing Street said the details of the meeting still had to be arranged , including whether the Prime Minister wanted to be filmed with Mr Rushdie . |
| 27 | This shift from a conflictual dyadic political structure is not simply a question of historical change , of the recent appearance of ‘ minorities ’ : after all the slave was already constituted simultaneously according to different groups ( for example male or female ) , the Lumpenproletariat always had to be excluded . |
| 28 | The caddie also had to be fastidious with his player 's equipment , providing clean clubs and balls . |
| 29 | This group also had to be made up on strict equal-opportunities lines , with the requisite number of minorities and women . |
| 30 | The workers later had to be treated in hospital for minor injuries and today the Royal Mail put up a £10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the attackers . |