Example sentences of "had [adv] to " in BNC.
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1 | And Agnese was quite right — he looked far more gorgeous than any mortal had right to . |
2 | In some cases there was little domestic support for communist policies and a new administration had effectively to be installed by the Red Army ( this was the case in the GDR , Poland and Romania ; Bulgaria , where the communists had enjoyed some support , took the German side during the war and here too a communist government was imposed by the Red Army ) . |
3 | Government forces had constantly to be at hand . |
4 | On warm days the area between the lawn and water surface had constantly to be watched so that , immediately signs of shrinkage appeared , water could be sprayed on to the puddled surface . |
5 | If the Unity Campaign was to have any effect its links with the Labour Party had constantly to be underlined . |
6 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
7 | How jarring it seemed then that , at the consecration , reference had necessarily to be made to the man Jesus of Nazareth : he had to take centre stage . |
8 | said he believed we had all to be constantly critical of ourselves in AEA . |
9 | had all to itself with eyes like black pods |
10 | His position in England had to be secured , and early difficulties in Denmark , Thorkell , Olaf of Norway and Anund Jacob of Sweden had all to be overcome ; thus , not until 1028 did Cnut 's position in Scandinavia rival Swegen 's in 1013 . |
11 | The television had not defeated her because nothing had ever gone wrong with it , and it had only to be switched on and off or , scarcely more complicated , over . |
12 | The men following up therefore had only to pinion the defender and use their momentum to force him backwards to be given yet another kick instead of a scrum . |
13 | The Shetlanders were the only children I have ever known who had only to be asked once to perform in public , without even token resistance they took to their fiddles and played . |
14 | He was an arrogant man who thought he had only to crook his finger and she would come running . |
15 | Jurors had only to be ‘ of sufficient intelligence and respectability ’ , but in 1 868 a financial test was instituted in order to exclude low-status white-collar workers . |
16 | It had only to be channelled . |
17 | He had only to be patient . |
18 | Having taken his strongholds , his wife , and his wealth , such an army had only to march thirty miles south to trap him here , with two thousand enemy mercenaries at his back and Siward before him , triumphant . |
19 | Those contrary approaches , contrary calculations and contrary totals , the one nearly twice the other , had only to be set up to illustrate the difficulty of the problems in this case . |
20 | The original conception of the public corporation was that it had only to be given its ‘ marching orders ’ by the political authority and could then be left to pursue the ‘ national interest ’ as management saw fit ( SCNI 1968 : 34 ) . |
21 | Here again I respectfully agree with the observations made by Lord Donaldson M.R. , at pp. 324–325 , and by Neill L.J. , at pp. 326–327 , when rejecting the proprietary argument , which had not been advanced before Wright J. but which had rightly to be considered when it was put forward for the first time in the Court of Appeal . |
22 | I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . |
23 | If the provisions were to work , there had obviously to be a clear definition of the institutions to whom they applied and the institutions chosen were mainly those for which the Bank of England had supervisory responsibility under the 1979 Banking Act , expanded by a few additions . |
24 | The author 's experience in Africa and Australia , and his study in Europe , convinced him that the participative training techniques developed by the ATB had much to otter agricultural progress in all countries , third world developing countries as well as developed countries . |
25 | BELVILLE : I have often observed in married folks that the lady soon grows careless in her dress , which to me shows a slight to her husband that she had not to her lover . |
26 | There were those which might even take part in a contract with a miner , and such agreements had not to be broken nor confidences betrayed . |
27 | Craig Parry , the 23 year-old chunky Australian , was deprived of last year 's Rookie of the Year title on a Tour ruling — a player had not to be a member of another Tour — having finished in 24th place on the Order of Merit from only 14 starts , but this year his form has been even more impressive . |
28 | The slow erosion of ducal authority through the fluctuating number of Gascon appeals ( some of them quite frivolous ) had somehow to be countered . |
29 | She felt no particular guilt : merely that marriage was a kind of old-fashioned scale : a tray on either side in which the fors and againsts had somehow to be kept in balance , and that extramarital sex had sometimes to be heaped on one side just to keep it steady because indefinable things were piling on the other . |
30 | This opinion had soon to be revised . |