Example sentences of "have to [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cook is the most observant woman , and parlourmaids have to be of a noticing cast of mind , otherwise they would n't be any good for the job , would they , sir ? ’ |
| 2 | His signs have to be of a special kind , directed at non-participants in the fiction . |
| 3 | One argument ( see Caves and Christensen , 1980 ) is that in competitive industries , all concerns have to be of roughly equal efficiency , whereas in the absence of competition , publicly owned concerns will be inferior . |
| 4 | You may work out that the two holes have to be of a suitable size for an individual ( ? ) to put two fingers in , possibly near enough to each other to put two fingers of the same hand in , and , having established this scale , it seems likely that the object referred to as the finger stop is only centimetres removed , rather than kilometres removed . |
| 5 | Because taekwondo is a combat sport , in which full-power attacks are allowed to the face and body , tournament contestants have to be of black-belt standard , but even so , many of the more dangerous techniques of the art are not permitted . |
| 6 | It is only its subsequent accounting reference periods that have to be of 12 months duration beginning immediately after the end of the previous accounting reference period and ending on the accounting reference date . |
| 7 | From this case , it would appear that all the goods supplied under the contract have to be of merchantable quality which is of significance with regard to " free gifts " and promotions supplied with goods . |
| 8 | Secondly it says that for pedestrian severance , that changes have to be of the degree of thirty percent before they become s significant . |
| 9 | To achieve such a blend of the absurd and the tragic , the writing as well as the acting have to be of exceptional quality — and Courtenay has drawn his inspiration from a remarkable novel by Venedikt Yerofeev which has been adapted for the stage by Stephen Mulrine . |
| 10 | Achieving high standards is something Eleanor is conscious of , ‘ A number of our customers are Hotel Inspectors for the Scottish Board so we are doubly aware that our standards have to be of the highest and we work very hard to achieve this . ’ |