Example sentences of "often had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had learnt , however , never to tell them much , to keep the best parts hidden , as indeed I often had to . |
| 2 | The technology that was needed to cultivate the high-yield grains successfully often had to be imported , which led to the suggestion that food dependency was being exchanged for technological dependency . |
| 3 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |
| 4 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 5 | In the end , where it was necessary to decide compromises , with such issues as who could use women 's and lesbian and gay centres , behaviours often had to be allocated the moral high ground on highly pragmatic criteria : that they were private , or that they did n't involve conspicuous clothing , for instance . |
| 6 | The Wealden clays supported a richer , more diverse agriculture than the Hastings Beds formation , where impoverished sandy soils combined with abrupt contours largely restricted farming to stock keeping , and grain often had to be brought from elsewhere . |
| 7 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 8 | The need to pay ransoms could be ruinous since , to raise the cash required , land often had to be sold . |
| 9 | My parents were discussing some incident in the past and , when I joined in the conversation to ask some question , they told me , as they often had on similar occasions , ‘ Of course , that was before you were born . ’ |
| 10 | Such humour even stretched to the envelopes , and those addressed to friends such as Clive Bell often had on them verse instructions to the postman . |
| 11 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |