Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew she had nothing to feel guilty about despite her attraction to Luke , having resisted him , but his relationship with Cavell was none of her business really , and whether Luke finally confessed that he had intended to be unfaithful or Cavell discovered it for herself , she did n't want to have to feel responsible for any eventual break-up . |
| 2 | Lisa had expected to be impressed by Vass 's seaside abode . |
| 3 | Had expected to be sore or tired from the previous day but I felt great and was never tired , no sore muscles or any blisters on the entire trip . |
| 4 | Lewis had forgotten to be indifferent and aloof , he could n't help it . |
| 5 | This reserved money was offered in the form of education support grants ( ESGs ) of up to 75% of the cost of each project , in areas of education that the Secretary of State had deemed to be important . |
| 6 | If there was indeed any mystery about Ewen Mackay 's visit to my cottage , the clue to it might well be here , in the house he had claimed to be familiar with . |
| 7 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 8 | He had hung the battered sword over the spice cupboard in Lucille 's kitchen , and had claimed to be glad that he would never again have to draw the war-dulled blade from its metal scabbard . |
| 9 | Bessmertnykh was dismissed as Foreign Minister on Aug. 23 for " passivity " during the coup , during which he had claimed to be ill . |
| 10 | Their increasing interest in the New Testament and the Life of Christ led them to concentrate on poverty and preaching — which previous authorities had seen to be dangerous . |
| 11 | Furthermore , she had grown to be grateful for the fact that their lives had drifted irretrievably apart , and she had prayed that things might stay that way for ever . |
| 12 | Angy had professed to be delighted to hear from her , had invited her to her flat but refused point-blank to hand over the ring . |
| 13 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 14 | I had decided to be vague . |
| 15 | If this process was properly carried out as a matter of public law , then the consequential private law right of the plaintiff was simply a right to the accommodation which the council had decided to be suitable . |
| 16 | Gesner had decided to be charming , which was a relief . |
| 17 | Humbly they had promised to be good . |
| 18 | These wider mills were thus squarer than their predecessors which had tended to be long and narrow . |
| 19 | Tamas had attempted to stand in the same constituency in the 1985 general election , but had been thwarted by what he had alleged to be communist manipulation of the candidate selection process [ see p. 33812-13 ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In early August the Minister of War , General Castelló , had had to be relieved of his post , suffering from psychological exhaustion . |
| 23 | The price of lead was falling , men were being laid off and John ( along with others ) and with as much grace as they were able to muster , had had to be prepared to accept a reduction in salary . |
| 24 | The , the you know his tobacco had got to be ready-rubbed and we , we still remember that . |
| 25 | It had been an end , where Jay had yearned to be sure — had been sure ? what a fool believes ? — it would be a beginning . |
| 26 | His prophecy had proved to be correct , for the trade he brought her way currently accounted for a good thirty per cent of her income . |
| 27 | Sir Graham , who is a member of ACOST , said Britain had proved to be good at increasing the knowledge base but weak at developing the technological benefits . |
| 28 | The Million Sterling had proved to be powerful bait . |
| 29 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |
| 30 | Interviewed on RTE Radio , Mr Spring said the killings underlined the need for inter-party political talks to resume , while Mr Hume said the use of internment had proved to be counter-productive in the past . |