Example sentences of "have to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repton himself comments in his Enquiry that ‘ the ‘ antiquated cot ’ , whose chimney is choked with ivy , may perhaps yield a residence for squalid misery and want ’ ; and an awareness develops that cottages do not have to be ruinous to be picturesque . |
| 2 | For Sam 's sake , she would have to be pleasant to — to — |
| 3 | Erm why do you have to be strong to be a policeman ? |
| 4 | You do n't have to be strong to be a policeman . |
| 5 | Since the accommodation would be occupied all year round , the standard would have to be similar to that required for permanent occupation . |
| 6 | Under the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill , members of the public will be able to challenge unlawful strikes ; workers will have to give regular written consent to have union subs deducted from salaries and industrial action will have to be subject to a full postal ballot . |
| 7 | The amount of detail given will have to be appropriate to the type of system installed . |
| 8 | The person she would have to be nice to , for Sam 's sake , was their brother Daniel . |
| 9 | And after his heroics , Warne said : ‘ It would have to be close to the best I 've ever bowled . |
| 10 | ‘ Would you always have to be close to the thing you were pushing ? ’ |
| 11 | A cork does n't have to be long to be good . |
| 12 | To be completely consistent perhaps Gandhi would not only have to be opposed to the killing of animals for food , but also to the killing of disease-carrying rats , mosquitoes , and venomous snakes , and those forms of plant life that are essential to a vegetarian diet . |
| 13 | ‘ Then you do n't have to be loyal to her , do you ? ’ |
| 14 | Even so , if the sequence is to come off it will have to be stage-managed to some extent : children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus are not old enough to carry the action on their own without the help of an adult to keep things moving . |
| 15 | You do n't have to be aggressive to be assertive , look at some of these comments we 've got here how confident you are in yourself and how you put your point across . |
| 16 | You 'd have to be irresponsible to yourself . ’ |
| 17 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 18 | Other differences flow from the fact that whereas the rights of shareholders depend mainly on the provision of the company 's articles , which will have been drafted in the interests of the company , those of debentureholders depend upon the terms of a contract between lender and borrower and its terms will have to be acceptable to the lender . |
| 19 | Obviously , whatever plan was developed would have to be sensitive to regional differences , whether in demographic terms , or in incidence of particular illnesses , or local cultural or political values . |
| 20 | You may need to remain nearby in case they do slip , but this can prevent some people from functioning so you will have to be sensitive to their feelings . |
| 21 | For instance , being in the business , and purporting to understand the wider implications , our designs would have to be sensitive to the practicalities and compromises involved in production — whether or not these instruments ever got to that stage . |
| 22 | But then you do n't have to be dead to be ignored . |
| 23 | Nor does resistance have to be manifest to be effective . |
| 24 | Cordelia , like Coriolanus , is being forced into a ceremony in which she would have to be false to her own nature . |
| 25 | P.S. Mind you , you do have to be able to on-sight Indian Face with an anvil strapped to your chest to become chairman ! |
| 26 | The artists do not have to be able to draw , though it helps : they do , however , have to be able to ‘ visualize ’ a design or a film and be able to explain their ideas by words and rough pictures so that a specialized artist or photographer can produce the finished illustration . |
| 27 | A pond does n't have to be large to be effective — if it 's big enough to install a small submersible pump you could even have a fountain . |
| 28 | World champion passenger Simon Birchall and arch-rival Gavin Simmons tell JOHN McKENZIE you do n't have to be mad to be a GP sidecar co-pilot . |
| 29 | Clearly , it must also be apparent that any subsidy would have to be long-running to be effective . |