Example sentences of "[verb] have [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He is a good man , mademoiselle — all the world would tell you so — but he has had to be strong — to bear everything on his shoulders .
2 She said apologetically " Well , he has had to be careful so long , watching every tiny little thing he does , I suppose … "
3 He has had to be able to turn his hand to almost anything .
4 But rather that in the incarnation God in Christ took on humanity ( the universal ) ; which is not to imply that he did not have particularities , which indeed one has to have to be human .
5 Those who did know had to be careful not to speak because it was only too easy to compromise the families on whose land or in whose houses the prisoners were .
6 I do n't insist what I 've done has to be important forever to the theatre .
7 Did you use to have to be able to say refer to job descriptions .
8 But they 've got to have to be consistent ,
9 And you 're going to have to be strong enough to cope with it . ’
10 ‘ Now , I 'm going to have to be practical , I 'm afraid .
11 To make the G M B relevant advice is going to have to be available over the telephone .
12 There was something on his mind , anxiety , certainly , anxiety for his family ; perhaps he had realised that if he was to get anything out of Cowley at all he was going to have to be co-operative .
13 Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too .
14 However , as her husband so rightly pointed out , they were going to have to be up-beat and positive as far as the twins were concerned .
15 I was going to have to be careful from now on .
16 We 're going to have to be careful . ’
17 You 're going to have to be careful how you handle this . ’
18 I 'm going to have to be careful because I shall be flying quite low .
19 I 'm going to have to be careful because I shall be flying quite low .
20 For administrative reasons the problems we set have to be multiple choice .
21 A male without testes would live longer than a , than a male with them , undoubtedly , on average five to seven years longer , and erm generally be more healthy in terms of avoiding a lot of problems that , that they might have had through being male .
22 You would have had to be superhuman not to be a little corrupted by the power she had .
23 The court held that for the application of the rule to have been lawful it would have had to be justifiable irrespective of race or ethnic or national origins .
24 Jules had told her she was attractive , Félix found her so , and she would have had to be blind not to see the admiring glances of strangers when she went to a café or on a promenade with Jules .
25 She would have had to be blind not to see the mixture of desire and destruction in the getsure .
26 That was an important question , for any messages Sharpe sent had to be accurate .
27 ‘ You do have to be polite and well-behaved , and loyal to the Royal Family as well , otherwise you could abuse it terribly . ’
28 But you do have to , you do have to be aware of being too clever for your own good , because they only want a translation .
29 P.S. Mind you , you do have to be able to on-sight Indian Face with an anvil strapped to your chest to become chairman !
30 You do have to be careful , though , because she has no fear .
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