Example sentences of "[coord] it had [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death was his business and it had to be organised efficiently . |
| 2 | He regretted the Opposition had not agreed a bipartisan policy and it had to be asked why they had no similar feelings about the forced repatriation of people from Hong Kong to China ‘ which goes on on every bitas big a scale as anything we are contemplating now ’ . |
| 3 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 4 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 5 | He never expressed any special wish to own a Mercedes until he could afford one : then he had to have it , and it had to be bright red . |
| 6 | It was the Mataura that had brought them from Scotland , and it had to be a good omen . |
| 7 | Almost as soon as it was begun , the College became virtually bankrupt , and it had to be taken firmly under control , notably by Lord Kinnaird , Byron 's banker friend . |
| 8 | The war was on and it had to be won before life could become normal again . |
| 9 | In the academic year 1980–81 , the school 's finances ran severely into the red and it had to be baled out from a special government reserve . |
| 10 | However , all salt had to be treated at source and it had to be consumed regularly , and though there was some success in parts of South America , these conditions could seldom be met . |
| 11 | This mode of study was too time-consuming to be suited to the part-time student and it had to be assumed that these benefits would be provided by the employer and the real-life work situation . |
| 12 | All the input data had to be available , and it had to be input in a pre-determined sequence . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Mediaeval theologians would have called it an incubus : racing was Jackie 's devil , his familiar , and it had to be cut out , exorcized . |
| 15 | Waddell says a blanket was thrown over the old man and several times the old man knocked it off and it had to be replaced . |
| 16 | ‘ The lure of Kevin Keegan and Newcastle United was too much — and it had to be something big for me to leave London . ’ |
| 17 | The steel in Philip Burton — and it had to be steel for the young Jenkins to take instruction — was his scholarship . |
| 18 | The offering had to cost him something — one of his herd of cattle or flock of sheep and goats ( a bird was permitted for the poor ) , and it had to be of the best — a male without blemish . |
| 19 | Britain also refused to sign a Social Charter in 1989 which guaranteed certain minimum social rights to EC peoples , and it had to be said , thirty years after the Rome treaties , that European unity had not really fulfilled the high hopes of Schuman , de Gasperi or Adenauer . |
| 20 | She was the first woman to receive such an honour , and it had to be accepted by Professor Bonney on her behalf , since women were not allowed to attend meetings of the society . |
| 21 | You knew immediately that Jancey had stuffed these guys into her flat because she knew I 'd come for a showdown , and it had to be tonight . |
| 22 | And it had to be word perfect ! ’ |
| 23 | Yes that was counted in it too and it had to be well parked . |
| 24 | Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost . |
| 25 | But it had to be . |
| 26 | The inevitable criticism that it was the former was met firmly with the contention that it was the latter , but it had to be admitted that no one could really be sure , and that to embark on such a venture an act of faith was indubitably required . |
| 27 | Mr Morrison says that he took on the job ‘ because they said that it would be difficult but it had to be done and that 's what appealed to me ’ . |
| 28 | D'Arcy hated to bring him down to earth , but it had to be done . |
| 29 | It was such a major operation but it had to be done although sometimes you think : My God , he 's worse off than before . |
| 30 | But it had to be called off after a police blunder led to Dennis and his alleged victim coming face-to-face with each other before the parade . |