Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total loss of these aircraft and crews was the bitterest blow Bomber Command had to suffer in the entire war , and it is difficult to understand why it happened . |
| 2 | Nolan J said that the committee had to consist of the same people throughout . |
| 3 | The position eventually taken up by Makarenko was one where the ultimate criteria of truth and morality had to reside in the centralized state . |
| 4 | A B Ed student must , therefore , undertake an academic study as part of his/her training ( just as the certificated teacher had to do in the 1920s ) . |
| 5 | Sometimes Sweetheart had to go into the back room to buy something special . |
| 6 | The pressures for independence or at least a greater measure of autonomy that emerged in the Baltic republics were the most serious of their kind that the Soviet leadership had to confront in the early Gorbachev years . |
| 7 | After departure of the 1620 to Sheffield , and depending on the good will of the driver , we managed to achieve many foot plate rides down to Wharf Lane and back as the train had to reverse into the down bay . |
| 8 | Dozens of beleagured businessmen in the midst of a painful recession were due to hear Michael Hesletine speak at this conference in Oxfordshire , but the President of the Board of Trade had to cancel at the last minute and the delegates instead got a DTi stand-in . |
| 9 | The sustained development of the study of the diseases of later life had to wait until the nineteenth-century . |
| 10 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 11 | It stipulated that at least 60 per cent of lending had to go to the private sector , and no more than 40 per cent to infrastructure projects . |
| 12 | But the war stopped progress and the world had to wait until the 1950s for the next major innovations in civilian flight . |
| 13 | The budget had to respond to the two challenges of tax reform and resumption of debt service payments , he said . |
| 14 | The English translation had to wait until the 1970s . |
| 15 | A day that had begun with the parade affirmation had to terminate in the same style . |
| 16 | The Portadown player had to work in the first couple of frames but after that he stepped up a gear and dismissed the English player almost scornfully . |