Example sentences of "had to [be] " in BNC.

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1 He would have had to be as different as T. S. Eliot ; and there 's an end of that speculation !
2 ‘ Although it is argued that fear of punitive jury awards has made the US business safety-conscious , quite a price has had to be paid for that by way of corporate and insurance company bankruptcy , the closing of municipal facilities and the practice of defensive medicine . ’
3 It was cut out of conference papers and replaced with a notice slipped into the file saying : ‘ The proposed paper on the Aids monitor has unfortunately had to be withdrawn , since it has not been possible to synchronise the publication with the Health Education Authority 's own report on the 1988 data , expected in the near future . ’
4 Meanwhile , the decision to sell Saatchi 's ailing business consultancy division has put additional strains on Saatchi management and a number of senior managers have had to be moved to new positions .
5 With cemeteries to maintain all over the world it is nor surprising that a variety of arrangements , contracts and agreements have had to be set up to ensure proper care and maintenance .
6 He exposes the vague way in which Read deploys scientific vocabulary , pointing out how much work had had to be done by a great many people and already popularized , before a literary critic could talk in this way .
7 It is now commonplace to say that the Thatcher governments have had to be highly interventionist in order to extend the market , increase the rights of consumers , and reduce producer power .
8 Perhaps other parties , simply because they have lacked the British Labour party 's advantages , have necessarily had to be more adaptable and willing to make alliances .
9 ‘ Did it ever occur to you that everything in this world has had to be designed ? ’ asks Sir Terence Conran , pausing for the significance of his question to sink in .
10 In Art History the rehabilitation of artists and bodies of work which have been overlooked has been going on since Vasari made such a good job of classifying Florentine art that all other art in Italy and beyond has had to be defined , at least until this century , and at some level even now , in relation to Vasari 's classifications , or at least in relation to the model of stylistic evolution which he outlined .
11 Perhaps if the National Front had been excluded , the racism they stand for would have had to be faced up to , ‘ making it worse ’ for those very genteel people in charge of education .
12 And now a third major part has had to be changed .
13 An attempt was made to preserve a sense of the large , formerly unitary space of the mill 's second storey which had had to be subdivided to create the dining- and food preparation rooms , by ‘ unifying ’ the stair hall and dining-room through very large sliding doors which formed the end panels of the dining-room rear wall .
14 Ever since William had started school , Diana had had to be based in the south .
15 A government-financed horticulture nursery in Belfast falsified the value of its plants for 13 years to the extent that more than £500,000 of public money has had to be written off .
16 Dusty samples have had to be unearthed for his refreshment .
17 The National Audit Office , Parliament 's financial watchdog , in a report published yesterday estimates that another £330 million has had to be paid out to cover ‘ premature maintenance . ’
18 ‘ I 've had to be very , very careful and say ‘ you ca n't afford it ’ . ’
19 Surrey managers said that many elderly day patients who would normally be carried by non-emergency crews have had to be readmitted to hospital in the past three months .
20 Yesterday Mr Olsen said the company had been approached by CITIC about the possible purchase of a holding back in November and the talks had reached a point at which they had had to be made public .
21 The popularity of road transport has meant that railways have either had short shrift , as in Britain , where investment per kilometre is about one-third that in France , or have had to be heavily subsidized , as in France and Germany .
22 The Lanes ' vat has had to be fitted with a new stainless steel liner .
23 The Gospel Green wooden truckle ends have had to be replaced with pvc equivalents to satisfy current health standard requirements .
24 But exceptions have had to be made for words like prie-Dieu ( prayer-stool ) , which will remain without an x in the plural so as to avoid blasphemous implications .
25 And how blurry would that policy have had to be in order to be described as common ?
26 In addition to the cuts in its ground forces , some military orders have had to be postponed .
27 The film sticks to the standard Bo plot — older man ( Anthony Quinn ) lusts comically after her body — but with Bo cracking on a bit , the stakes have had to be raised a bit .
28 It has covered 1000ha ( 2,500 acres ) of silaging work and nothing — pto apart — has had to be modified .
29 Paisley played a part in the Ulster Workers Council but , like the other politicians , he had had to be forced by the workers ' action in starting the strike despite his reservations .
30 When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids .
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