Example sentences of "had [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the first knowledge that Yvonne had of being black . |
| 2 | Steel-Maitland could at last be moved from the Ministry of Labour , which had in many ways been the key departmental post of the administration , and in which he had throughout been ill-regarded but undisturbed . |
| 3 | Yeah , the clothes I had on was identical to that of P C . |
| 4 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 5 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
| 6 | So you had to be sharp . |
| 7 | Stuck in Dovercourt with little prospect of continuing their education or of fulfilling their parents ' ambitions , they did not see what they had to be grateful for . |
| 8 | And I mean one had to be grateful because she was much more concerned about whether I 'd hurt myself falling off the ladder than her wardrobe . |
| 9 | As salt would have been a precious commodity , all their meat had to be air-dried in order to preserve it for the winter months , and this was done by the use of cleits . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , someone had to be alert . ’ |
| 11 | On the resumption Kilkeel were awarded three consecutive penalty corners but they were unable to add to their slender advantage , and the direct long ball tactic from Service meant that Kilkeel always had to be alert to the breakaway . |
| 12 | Finally , of the argument that Jesus treated women well ( and thus it is of significance that he did not ‘ choose ’ women — to be part of a symbolic number of people who in any case had to be male ! ) , it must be said that it is quite unwarranted . |
| 13 | All trucks had to be well-hosed and limewashed between each and every journey . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 15 | However , at a time when the Tour was attempting to extend the early part of the year 's schedule , players had to be tolerant , added Schofield . |
| 16 | A different one every week but they had to be believable . |
| 17 | ‘ They had to be believable as the kind of kids you 'd see on the streets , but not on TV . |
| 18 | Life was hell for unsuccessful acts ; not only did the performers have to put up with heckling and catcalls but they had to be agile enough to duck the rotten eggs and fruit thrown by a disgruntled audience . |
| 19 | Roads that carried any considerable amount of through-traffic had to be wide enough , and could be wide enough in unenclosed country , to allow of detours around the impassable stretches that developed in unsurfaced roads by mid-winter . |
| 20 | ‘ We had to be specific about the exercise question because people have different ideas about what exercise is . |
| 21 | At first instance , the judge held that the accommodation had to be appropriate and that no reasonable authority could have come to that conclusion in this case . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | She told him that he had to be successful and then she made it impossible for him . |
| 24 | Bad as were the irregularities of the Freeholders ' elections , the irregularities in the burghs were , if anything , worse , one of the reasons being that while the county representative needed only one election meeting to be appointed , the burgh representative had to be successful in two elections before he could get to Westminster . |
| 25 | He hated getting his clothes dirty , but the effect had to be convincing . |
| 26 | But all kinds of labour ‘ had to be capable of readily adapting themselves to new conditions , and not become petrified in a rigid and inflexible mould ’ . |
| 27 | She thought he had to be capable of almost super-human control because his voice still sounded calm , almost matter-of-fact . |
| 28 | Its machinery had to be capable of carrying out the role in relation to those institutions now designated as polytechnics — which , as we have seen , were far from homogeneous — and in relation to a large variety of other institutions with one or another proportion of its work at the level of CNAA degrees . |
| 29 | The new ‘ box had to be capable of handling the torque of the highest performance versions whilst still fitting into a very small space . |
| 30 | Both she and Ace had kept their inevitable contact strictly business ; in fact she had to be impressed with his total single-mindedness with his job , finding in his perfectionist attitude an answering chord within herself . |