Example sentences of "they have [prep] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed in the Rubin and Kozin ( 1984 ) study subjects were asked to describe ‘ flashbulb memories ’ without the constraint that they had to be related to newsworthy events . |
| 2 | The bond 's conditions did not allow for this , so even if bought and transferred at less than par between individuals , they had to be redeemed by the Club in full . |
| 3 | Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles . |
| 4 | Dozens of animals were so weak they had to be shot on the spot . |
| 5 | And for RSPCA inspectors , who found cattle on the farm so weak they had to be shot on the spot , it was an important victory . |
| 6 | Clerical grants , although generally dependable , were never to be taken for granted ; they had to be extracted from convocations by promises of redress , by divisions caused among the clergy , by desperate appeals , forceful delegations of royal councillors , veiled threats , relentless pressure and astute management . |
| 7 | H M Customs and Excise confirmed yesterday that they had to be implemented by 1 January 1990 . |
| 8 | The whole ritual took most of them half an hour though there were always a few that gossiped so much they had to be nagged by their Head Girl . |
| 9 | This led to blows on the set and they had to be separated by actor Alan Hale . |
| 10 | The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor . |
| 11 | They had to be done in a special , you know where they extracted the , the fumes away from the , the paint shop . |
| 12 | They had to be done like that and yeuk and then throw the neep in there and then the next day so that when the |
| 13 | They had to be seen to be doing something positive , something caring . |
| 14 | It they suffered in this way , they had to be sprayed with fresh water . |
| 15 | But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural . |
| 16 | In contrast with the patient and virtuous English , the French were portrayed as , at best , dissembling , unscrupulous and bellicose ; in fact , the patriotic exuberance of some clergy so overwhelmed Christian charity that they had to be warned against making their prayers too bloodthirsty ! |
| 17 | When the four larger Lancaster cars were bought in 1894/6 , they had to be housed in a lean-to shed at its side . |
| 18 | The year 1890 was that of the Baring crisis , when the partners of Barings , largely through mismanagement of a major transaction in Argentina , found themselves in difficulties from which they had to be rescued by a group of City banks and financial houses organized by the Bank of England . |
| 19 | Jenks recognized that the future could not be shaped merely by the projection of legal principles : they had to be embodied in appropriate global institutions . |
| 20 | They had to be transported from the plant in lead-lined coffins and buried under thick concrete . |
| 21 | Senators who entertained thoughts of becoming effective members were obliged to serve a lengthy period of apprenticeship ; they had to be dedicated to their work as senators ; they were also expected to specialize and , in turn , to respect the specialization of others . |
| 22 | In 1372 stipendiaries , and rectors and vicars with benefices worth 10 marks ( or £3 13/ 4d ) , were to come as archers with bows and arrows ; those with livings worth more than £10 had to attend ‘ well armed ’ ; if their living was valued at £20 they had to be accompanied by two archers , if £40 by two armed men and two archers , if £100 by five armed men and six archers . |
| 23 | They would ride , most of them , if they had to be put on a horse while needing the use of crutches to walk or with splints on every bone . |
| 24 | Their houses could not be entered by the police , for instance ; they had to be tried by courts of their own country , not by Egyptian courts , and so on . |
| 25 | This right disappeared in 1842 , and thereafter they had to be tried in a normal Portuguese court , but the jury had to be half British and half Portuguese — this right has also , of course , long since disappeared . |
| 26 | She described a recent visit to her local Samaritans ' branch , where a voluntary worker told her that they received telephone calls from teenagers who were ‘ so filled with fear , and so depressed by the constant threat of a nuclear accident ’ that they had to be deterred from committing suicide . |
| 27 | With the tension reaching boiling point , it was finally announced that the French officials had allowed the result to stand and they had to be applauded for a sporting decision . |
| 28 | When in 1857 something new began to grow in Nova Scotia Gardens , financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts at the prompting of Dickens , the residents protested so vehemently that they had to be pacified by the architect and restrained by the law . |
| 29 | Boards could maim as well as protect : they had to be muzzled with noseguards . |
| 30 | So in 1831 the commoners rioted in the Forest of Dean , threw down the enclosures , and drove their cattle and sheep into the coppices : they had to be suppressed by soldiers . |