Example sentences of "have [prep] [be] content " in BNC.
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| 1 | WIMBLEDON v LIVERPOOL Wimbledon are unchanged , which means Lawrie Sanchez has to be content with a substitute 's role . |
| 2 | Peter has to be content with the single class reader provided by the school , which he already knows by heart . |
| 3 | That intolerable woman , she thought bitterly , had managed to become president of the Tollemarche Downtown Community Centre by a majority of a single vote , and Mrs Frizzell had had to be content with the vice-presidency , which office she declared gave her all the work and none of the authority . |
| 4 | She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time . |
| 5 | With the advent of computerised axial tomography ( CAT scan ) this is likely to be less of a problem in the future , but in the past researchers have had to be content with less sophisticated methods . |
| 6 | The Australians have had to be content with the second favourites slot in front of their home crowd . |
| 7 | Although you are all for outings with a pack , you will have to be content with your lot for now . |
| 8 | As it was , he will have to be content with a worthy second prize from the Captain . |
| 9 | As it was , he will have to be content with a worthy second prize and undoubted attention from that pernicious body of men , who seem to be hovering forever around the competition results waiting to strike — the handicapping committee ! ’ |
| 10 | You 'll just have to be content with the JB instead . |
| 11 | In these cases , analysis may have to suffice , or feminists may have to be content with informal , guerilla-style resistance . |
| 12 | With the price cuts , they will have to be content making money on service and support . |
| 13 | Since we shall have to be content with inexact knowledge we will not insist that our electron is to be found at a definite point but simply require that it is localised within an interval of space of length Ax . |
| 14 | Maybe he 'll have to be content with merely doing all the work , but there 's compensations in being indispensable , too . ’ |
| 15 | 286 users will have no chance to use it , and will have to be content with Windows over DOS if the GUI is where they want to be . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid you 'll have to be content with just knowing my room number ! ’ she snapped . |
| 17 | If the mortgagee will not consent to the husband being released from the mortgage , then the husband will have to be content with an indemnity from the wife ( see Precedents 7 and 8 ) . |
| 18 | As a result , on-loan Jon Gittens will have to be content with a substitute 's role . |
| 19 | So I said well you will just have to be content with me because you 'll because my husband has no time . |
| 20 | Now , at forty-three , he had to be content with cardboard bloaters ! |
| 21 | It was afternoon — the morning had gone on Crabb Robinson — which meant that all the ample , high , soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent 's desk , ensphered by the Catalogue , were taken , and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between these spokes . |
| 22 | From 19 BC none but the emperor was permitted to enjoy a triumph , and victorious generals had to be content with the nominal honours of the ornamenta triumphalia . |
| 23 | The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme . |
| 24 | So Deborah had to be content to ride on a tree branch every Saturday morning on her way to Pack Meeting but she did long to be on the back of a real pony again and to help in the stables as she used to do , and learn how a pony should be shoed , cared for and fed , and to know and do the other things required to pass the Pony Rider test . |
| 25 | To be horrified — surely the purpose of the horror movie — we had to be content with films about psychopathic killers who lurked in bushes or deserted mansions . |
| 26 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |
| 27 | Even then , most great men had to be content with ‘ motte and bailey ’ , with a mound having a wooden lookout tower on top as a central defensive position , and a large enclosure surrounded by an earth rampart in which living quarters could be sited . |
| 28 | In disbelief , Montgomerie had to be content with third spot . |
| 29 | She had hoped for an audience with the Prime Minister , but had to be content with the publicity of being there . |
| 30 | But I had to be content with a phone call . ’ |