Example sentences of "had [prep] [be] able [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a government had to be able to carry a programme of economies through the House of Commons : this immediately ruled out the possibility of a Labour minority government led by Henderson , as suggested by Moodie in an otherwise illuminating article . |
| 2 | A king had to be able to create a sense of solidarity among his men . |
| 3 | Then they had to be able to build a nest for the night . |
| 4 | A prospective husband had to be able to afford a wife , children and their educational expenses , and the trappings of domestic life . |
| 5 | ‘ You had to be able to play a lot of different things in the clubs or you 'd get killed ! |
| 6 | The parents had to be able to present a full defence , he said , and if the whole case had been heard in Inverness , it would have been almost impossible to fully safeguard their interests and get everybody in the right place at the right time . |