Example sentences of "had [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The almshouses ' occupants were old ladies who , to be eligible , had to be of good character and lifelong churchwomen . |
| 2 | Martha and I married during the Second World War , as did Steven 's parents , when wedding couples needed clothing coupons from all their relatives to make the wedding dress and wedding suits , which had to be of sensible material so that they could be worn again . |
| 3 | First , there had to be a major subversive or espionage activity that was likely to injure the national interest , and secondly the material likely to be obtained by the interception had to be of direct use in compiling the information necessary for the security services to carry out the tasks laid upon them by the state . |
| 4 | The illustrations had to be of ruined castles and dark forests , mythical monsters and fire-breathing dragons , unicorns , trolls and goblins , and a golden-haired boy who fought against the forces of the night . |
| 5 | It might be contemptible , but it still had to be worth conquering ; and the fifteenth-century verse chronicle by John Hardyng , which demonstrated that Scotland , with its three fair university cities and fruitful countryside , could easily victual incoming English armies , makes the point very well . |
| 6 | but he he would never stay except , you know , it always had to be in respectable kind of a barn or something he would live in , least And in fact instead of that he would ra if it was good days he would rather lie at the dyke side . |
| 7 | ‘ It had to be in private , ’ whispered Mould , looking round to check it was safe . |
| 8 | The only concern for the Panel was whether the children had to be in compulsory care . |
| 9 | For this theory to give the observed value of the strong force between particles , the strings had to be like rubber bands with a pull of about ten tons . |
| 10 | The company decided that any new location had to be within reasonable travelling distance from motorway and railway networks as well as be close to an international airport . |