Example sentences of "[noun] had to make " in BNC.

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1 In our competition , sponsored by independent accountants Scott-Moncrieff Thomson & Shiells , readers had to make their own judgment on 12 elements of the Budget , ranging from income tax thresholds to VAT , excise duties and public borrowing .
2 The selective use of vous and tu forms in dialogues involving different characters suggests that the French translator had to make conscious decisions about the nature of the relationships among different characters in the story and about the social standing of these characters as reflected in their adoption of certain conventions to do with approved/non-approved expression of familiarity and/or deference .
3 Those who were not participating in this type of research had to make do with walking in the oh so prolific Manchester rain , holding pillow-fighting competitions or otherwise bear the dreadful timetabled events .
4 As each new AGR started construction , such serious engineering and design problems were encountered that the designers had to make major alterations to the next in the series .
5 Bobby had to make his own presence felt .
6 Marcel and Patterson ( 1978 ) presented one word , followed by a pattern mask ( see Chapter 4 ) such that the word could not be identified , and the mask was followed by a letter string about which subjects had to make a lexical decision .
7 In one , subjects had to make a judgment about whether or not the sentence was meaningful .
8 Labour had to make its case afresh .
9 This time Mrs Ireland had to make her decision alone and that was horrendously difficult to do , especially as it involved deciding about the future care of her husband .
10 This was the last opportunity the Legal Services Committee had to make oral submissions to the Advisory Committee before the latter produced its advice on both the Law Society 's application for extended rights of audience for solicitors and the CPS/GLS submission seeking to remove the restrictions under para 402(1) ( c ) in the Bar 's Code of Conduct on rights of audience for employed lawyers .
11 ‘ It was clear that there were rumours about and AEA had to make a statement .
12 Certainly , but knowing that captains had to make official reports on the umpires after each match , only the foolhardy would go against such an influential skipper , who had played six times for the Gentlemen against the Players .
13 Montenegro had to make do with about three-fifths of her earlier gains but Bulgaria with less still .
14 Lord Justice went on , quote , I agree with this indeed when making the calculations the judge had to make , those who die early are the only ones which matter because the fact of living longer than the expectation is immaterial .
15 After an extremely modest amount of alcohol available for the toasts , the delighted guests had to make do with ‘ Lemonade/Orangeade ’ .
16 To this threat , the political representatives of big business had to make a response .
17 Well , er the reason was erm technique and science and they 'd , they all the firms or who was in business had to make locks their own way , you know what I mean and use the best facilities they could get hold of , but science and progress came into being and they cou they made what you could call locks erm repetition .
18 The game was nearly an hour old before Woods had to make a worthwhile save — from Keane — then Marriott brought off a superb one-handed save to deny Hirst another goal .
19 But this year , Mr Patten had to make his own speech to the conference for the first time .
20 The group had to make contact with an American unit willing to keep staff up to date with the very latest developments .
21 A publican had to make sure that the gift was not too obvious .
22 Even then the director had to make changes as the backers insisted that the story of an impoverished farmer galvanizing a group of the unemployed into helping make a success of things was combined with a more conventional sex angle .
23 ‘ Mark Morris had to make a good save late on from a snapshot by a defender , but Gary Bennett also had a chance to win the game for us at the end . ’
24 Under the old AVC rules , individuals had to make a commitment to pay regular contributions for a period of at least five years .
25 The stewards inquiry had to make a quick decision ; any defect in natural justice at that stage would be cured by the hearing before the full committee of the Jockey Club .
26 Some , the lucky ones , had a glass for their drink but the rest had to make do with a cup or a mug .
27 THE newest submarine for the Royal Navy had to make an emergency ascent during trials off the west coast of Scotland yesterday after fears of contamination to her air supplies .
28 However , The Scotsman understands that the vessel had to make an emergency ascent to the surface in order to avoid a possible contamination of her crew 's air supply .
29 After this the law became increasingly convoluted as the courts tried to escape the rigours of a rule which meant that the court had to make a finding in favour of one party or the other .
30 In the end , Mr Hurd had to make a joking reference to Mr Clarke 's audacity .
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