Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it had [prep] " in BNC.

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1 To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Minton held a party at the Mandrake , giving Boris Watson £200 over the bar with the insistence that it had to be spent .
2 ‘ Between October and January I thought through what I wanted to do , and came to the conclusion that it had to be a change and it had to be something I was interested in , which really came down to working with people .
3 The first half dealing with the historical aspect of the Ju 52 , its development and predecessors , and the impact that it had in the world of air transport , concentrating mainly on the type 's civil use .
4 The Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was discontinued since it was considered that the very marginal improvement that it had over the Standard programme was not worth the relatively more substantial increase in running costs .
5 Even more colourful was the statement in the City Corporation 's Annual Report that it had to be demolished ‘ due to corrosion by fish juices , .
6 Although parliamentary government did not cease to work , it no longer appeared to be working in the way that it had in the past .
7 As an example , Drucker quoted the case of Crown-Zellerbach , a big West-Coast pulp and paper manufacturer , which found that long-range forest management was such an important activity that it had to be established as a separate department , because otherwise it would not be given the attention its importance warranted .
8 no I think it was a worm that it had in its mouth but it looked incredibly weird .
9 Argov himself had written an earlier letter of such hostility that it had to be returned by the paper because its contents were regarded by lawyers at The Times as potentially defamatory .
10 The NHS , of course , did use resources and was not ‘ free ’ to the extent that it had to be funded .
11 In addition the fact that it had to be paid in cash meant that the farmers had to sell their crop to the grain-dealer and then often enough borrow money from the money lender .
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