Example sentences of "you have to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mainstream applications will make all these changes for you , often without you having to be aware of what 's going on .
2 Erm why do you have to be strong to be a policeman ?
3 Nor will you have to be running marathons or plunging into the swimming pool every day in order to maintain a reasonable level of exercise to speed weight loss and keep metabolic rate high .
4 Do n't you have to be able to play something ? ’
5 If you were desperate enough , it was the only way to travel , but on a frosty night in the middle of December , you had to be desperate .
6 The Secretary of State for Scotland decided who should go to the party , but it appears that you had to be rich , a local landowner or preferably both to receive an invitation .
7 You had to be nice to see the doctor .
8 and you had to be nice to everybody do n't you ?
9 So you had to be sharp .
10 Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days .
11 I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it .
12 By the time that you were ready to go up into Standard Three , you had to be proficient to the twelve times table but it did not stop there for later on you had measurement , area , weight and many others .
13 But it was n't anything much , because you had to be discreet in those days , specially if you had a child .
14 Jane was not popular : in order to be popular , you had to be good at games , and Jane was useless at all of them — and they played everything — netball , rounders , tennis , lacrosse , hockey — even cricket — every afternoon , rain or shine , exams or no exams .
15 As Barry Norman put it , ‘ There were three essential requirements to becoming a member of the Hollywood Brat Pack — you had to be successful , youthful and incredibly bratty . ’
16 You had to be sure that she had convictions as a prostitute — first loitering and then prostitution and then finer points came up over suspected persons .
17 ‘ With Lime Grove then , if you were planning a long shot from any particular place you had to be sure the camera could physically get to that exact spot to take it .
18 London was full of young men from the war with connections new and old , quicker at the game , civilian spivs , career barrow-boys ; to get what you wanted you had to be hard and fast : no lingering .
19 You had to be careful with officials .
20 You had to be careful around that part of the world .
21 He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt .
22 You had to be careful with it , so the outfields were rougher and dryer .
23 So you had to be careful of him .
24 And you had to be careful and you had to keep your hands clean .
25 You had to be careful walking home , not walk like a zombie , sticking your arms out with your fingers like a baby stretching out for a dropped dummy .
26 You had to be careful not to bump your head ;
27 You had to be careful that the builders did n't catch us .
28 You 've got to bear in mind though that , that , that the scriptures which you can use in the Hebrew context were before the resurrection was possible , so you had to be careful that er , that you do n't bounce because when Jesus came to the earth he changed that though did n't he ?
29 The sustain and the feedback was amazing , but boy , you had to be quick off the mark to damp the strings , or the whole thing would feed back unbelievably .
30 And then you had to be quick at it you know .
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