Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] had [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denied the comfortable illusion that the League could restrain aggression without killing people , pacifists now had to face a harsh choice . |
| 2 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 3 | It was agreed at an early stage ( principally at Citrine 's insistence ) that sales in urban and rural areas should be at common prices , so that many rural dwellers already having a supply had prices reduced , though new consumers distant from the mains still had to pay a one-off contribution or line rental ( which varied according to the Board ) to meet part of the cost of connection . |
| 4 | The nationalist leader often had to invent a unifying culture as well as lead . |
| 5 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 6 | General Thurman still had to receive a final green light from the president once he had worked out a plan . |
| 7 | The client then had to ring a different number . |