Example sentences of "[adv] had to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What was it about him , that he only had to be near for her natural calm professionalism to fly out of the window ? |
| 3 | They just had to be there and play well and perform well . |
| 4 | Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there . |
| 5 | I 'd have liked a job but you could n't , because the men had to be looked after , you just had to be there . |
| 6 | It just had to be upfront and radical . |
| 7 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 8 | We always had to be properly dressed even in the wee small hours when we were only looking forward to being relieved so we could fall into bed . |
| 9 | I 'm really sorry David and I both had to be away . |
| 10 | A plaque on a courtyard wall pays tribute to his defence of the castle , which collapsed only when cannon on loan from Elizabeth devastated the main east front , which later had to be entirely rebuilt . |
| 11 | It required sewing together , then cropping , scouring with just enough caustic soda so that the fabric would not tear , and bleaching with peroxide , which then had to be well washed out . |
| 12 | ( It must be remembered it was still another nine years before women were franchised to vote in Government Elections , and then had to be over 30 ) . |
| 13 | Then , as now , to play a National Tri-Plate you either had to be very rich or very lucky . |
| 14 | The system therefore had to be both hardware and network independent . |