Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Trefgarne wrote back on October 5 1989 , claiming the guidelines had to be ‘ reconsidered ’ .
2 More and more self-build projects are taking off all over the NorthEast and Mr Edwards said clear guidelines had to be laid down .
3 The Yanks had in fact had them for some months in the Scullery apartment .
4 Such treatment may reflect the readership the authors had in mind .
5 This is the view the Swindon fans had of the West Ham match and in the first half their hearts must have almost stopped as Town were hit hard by the Hammers … keeper Nicky Hammond played a blinder …
6 As Palace impressed in Division One in 1990–91 , Mark 's prowess gained further recognition when he scored The Eagles ' decisive goal against Liverpool in the televised Football League match on 30 December , but Palace fans had by then long since ceased to need any persuading that this intelligent and hard-working centre-forward is among the best in the country .
7 The Lords of the Congregation could rightly assert the duty and responsibility of the nobility to act for the good of the commonweal , and indeed experience of minorities over two centuries had in practice underwritten the theoretical position to an unusual extent .
8 Both her legs had to be amputated above the knee .
9 The West Coast had love-ins ; now London in considerably less welcoming climes tried the same , complete with an obligatory visit by Andy Warhol , Pink Floyd , and celebrants shinning up organ pipes as the night wore on and boredom or chemically induced demons had to be exorcized .
10 There can be no serious defensible pedigrees here ( even if we could decide what characteristics had to be inherited to ensure pure descent ) .
11 Other methods had to be found .
12 Other , more subtle methods had to be employed .
13 But wider , deeper and larger considerations had to be taken on board and at this stage I do n't know if any of the money will be available to me for replacing Batty if he goes . ’
14 But wider , deeper and longer considerations had to be taken on board . ’
15 What the styles had in common was a number of letter forms .
16 This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom .
17 Profits suffered at the EW Payne reinsurance business and River Thames Insurance , where underwriting reserves had to be increased .
18 More attention , therefore , has been paid to the process by which rank-and-file intelligenty were recruited into the underground ; the interaction between their ideological development and the popular pressure for change welling up from below ; the social composition and structure of the revolutionary organizations they created ; and the impact which those organizations had upon the masses they sought to represent .
19 But by 1898 the Chrimes brothers had on their ledgers over 10,000 names of women who had responded to their advertisements and these they then used for blackmail .
20 New offices had to be found .
21 Had we our Annuall Parliaments Settled , the Negative Voice Restrained , a Committee of Lords and Commons to be the Privy-Council , no Officers of the King to serve in Parliament , the Revenue Appropriated , all Eminent Offices had upon good Behaviour and Election of Members to Parliament secured , the Work might have deserved a better Character " .
22 Potential candidates had to be able to spell ‘ train ’ .
23 A general election , when all candidates had to be members of KANU , was held in March 1988 [ see pp. 36136-37 ] .
24 All the candidates had to be nominated with proposers and seconders and they all have election agents . ’
25 They pointed out that motility patterns in normal subjects needed to be described in more detail , that the relation between pressure and transit needed to be further investigated , and that the analysis and classification of pressure waves had to be standardised and quantified .
26 At the end of Market Day , the animals had to be driven away .
27 Needless to say , plants had to evolve before animals : i.e. they had to become the food for which primitive animals had in turn to colonize the land to seek .
28 If the animals had in any proper sense rights , we should no more be entitled to put them to death without a fair trial … than to torture them for our amusement .
29 Apparently in deference to The Builder 's comments , the submission date was extended and designs had to be inscribed with a motto and delivered to Westminster Hall on or before 20th March , 1857 .
30 The designs had to be small to avoid wastage in matching .
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