Example sentences of "the [noun] had [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As well as having undertaken the nominated activity within 1990 and being members of the BAPC , entrants for the award had to assemble a small report giving the ‘ whys ’ and the ‘ hows ’ of their particular project . |
2 | The bikes had to survive a six-week tour in total wilderness , with fifty kilograms of camping gear , and they must not break . |
3 | But even the French navy had to divide itself between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coasts and the Russians had to maintain a small separate fleet in the Black Sea . |
4 | In order to win West Bank allegiance in the face of Israeli and Jordanian competition , the PLO had to find a local partner . |
5 | The drivers had to negotiate a testing two-mile course on the Princess Royal 's Gatcombe Park estate . |
6 | Bohr therefore supposed that the electron had to occupy a circular orbit whose angular momentum took one of the discrete values |
7 | Moderate land reform was a cau cautious approach in in that how that the communists had to maintain a fragile balanc balance between the two fundamental aims of the maintenance of support and the increase of production . |
8 | The judge had to consider a preliminary point concerning the application of the Limitation Act 1980 to the local authority 's claim . |
9 | To get to their proposed operational area the convoy had to take a difficult route . |
10 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
11 | The Labour Party 's executive committee stressed after a Feb. 22 meeting that the government had to make a clear decision on the formula within two to three weeks , otherwise it would be forced to end the coalition . |
12 | So the platers had to use a manual override to get any production at all . |
13 | The descent took only a few minutes , but then the man had to make a laborious return journey with the empty sledge , which might take half an hour . |
14 | The House of Lords stated that the employer had to devise a safe system and operate it . |
15 | The railways had to accommodate a wide variety of produce under different conditions and at different times of the year . |
16 | ‘ The guy from the hotel had to make a mad dash over here , that 's for sure . ’ |
17 | Out of the gentlemen who came into farming at that time [ before mechanization ] only about one in twenty could make it go : the others had to have a skilled man to manage the farm for 'em . |
18 | Nevertheless , in what most people would regard as an obvious case of rape , the victims had to suffer a traumatic experience in court and have their humiliating experiences reported to millions . |