Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have to be " in BNC.

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1 I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way .
2 OF COURSE someone had to be blamed for the Grand National that never was .
3 A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’
4 Auditors checking Department of Energy accounts have discovered that the ministry wrote off £9.54 million spent on research which had to be cancelled following nuclear research cuts and plans for electricity privatisation .
5 Aromatic bathing and massage became a nightly ritual which had to be carried out before Owen would go to bed .
6 Much of the market uncertainty which has to be organizationally buffered in the West is displaced outside the organization in Japan .
7 He may also have had expensive tools or special equipment of some kind , or a car or boat which has to be sold .
8 As you will have picked up , in my opinion fundamentalism is a dangerous enemy which has to be attacked at the level of the mind and of the heart .
9 Ragusa was seen as a rival which had to be subdued and brought under Venetian control .
10 Since most , if not all , big bream swims lie some distance from the bank , groundbait which has to be thrown needs to be packed quite tightly in order not to break up while in flight .
11 There was , however , one perfectly clear and simple condition which had to be fulfilled if any rational deduction was to be drawn as to the effect of abolition .
12 The condition which had to be satisfied under that Act before a care order could be made was that ‘ his proper development is being avoidably prevented or neglected . ’
13 The same subjects who showed an advantage for the right ear with pairs of digits showed a significant superiority for the left ear when the stimuli consisted of snatches of melody which had to be identified by means of a multiple-choice response method .
14 A horse who has to be lightly raced , Chatam has only had three runs this season .
15 It is one thing for the Association to demand certain professional standards of its members ( as formulated in the Code of Professional Conduct ) , and to expect them to have loyalty to these rather than to the employer in any dispute , but the professional association itself has to be seen to take a strong stand in support of its membership , or indeed against its membership , if such situations of conflict arise .
16 To have good point of contact , you have to have good footwork and to have good footwork you have to be very strong .
17 I will go further , and say that crime itself has to be viewed from the same aspect of society as a balance — a balance that can be lost , like the physiological or chemical balance in an organism , in which cases the organism is destroyed , but a balance which is always there , whether being gained , maintained or lost .
18 Playing snooker you have to be good at your shots and pot the ball —
19 He said ‘ Come ’ as Greeks prod their donkeys ; as if , it later struck me , I was a potential employee who had to be shown briefly round the works .
20 Out in the auditorium everything has to be checked every day for safety and there 's a non-stop maintenance programme because the show must always go on .
21 To deal with a pundit one had to be either a sister , senior staff nurse , or a rare fourth-year on nights .
22 ‘ But when you go on telly there has to be some compromise , like I swear all the f—ing time , but that does n't bother me , I do n't feel like I 'm selling my life away just to get on the telly . ’
23 Wilkinson told fellow members , and top-ranking League officials , at the awards ceremony there has to be greater understanding between players , managers and referees .
24 Last Thursday central tv showed animal rescue workers at the farm taking away 35 goats suffering from emaciation. 6 horses were in such a bad condition they had to be shot .
25 There is little chance of the " professional " participator emerging with real understanding , for to find out the truth of religion it has to be wrestled with and lived , not just safely and probably patronizingly studied from a safe distance .
26 In Darcy 's Utopia it has to be .
27 AN Edinburgh man was so drunk when police stopped his car he had to be kept overnight before he could be charged , a court heard yesterday .
28 As soon as the group became too large to be controlled by a hyper-active Healy rushing around the country to quell the first signs of dissidence it had to be smashed .
29 So one vote it has to be .
30 At that rent it has to be . ’
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