Example sentences of "had [prep] be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very young inmates at Bohorok had to be taught a surprising number of basic skills , such as how to climb and walk upright on a branch , things they would normally have learned from their mothers . |
| 2 | All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’ |
| 3 | ( b ) The agreement had to be given a purposive construction . |
| 4 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , on its true construction , section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 had to be given a literal meaning ; that where a school was over-subscribed compliance with the preference of all the applicants would necessarily prejudice efficient education , and in such circumstances the school had to have an admissions policy , which would inevitably result in defeating the preference of some applicants , whatever criteria were adopted ; and that , accordingly , since the school was over-subscribed , there was no duty on the governors to give effect to the applicants ' preferences ( post , pp. 100H — 101B , 106H , 107G–H , 108A , G–H ) . |
| 5 | At first instance Judge Butler ruled that the word ‘ obtained ’ in s.1(3) of the CSA 1985 had to be given a strict construction . |
| 6 | However the total income from rent was a gross £36 6 0d : from that had to be deducted a quit rent of 13s 4d to St. Bartholomew 's Hospital , leaving 18 12 8d ( after the other deductions ) to be appropriated by the Company . |
| 7 | John installed a filter and later added a waterfall , but a rapid drop in the water level one day spelt trouble and somewhere in the region of 180 assorted fish had to be found a new home . |
| 8 | In emergency situations , it seemed , constitutional niceties had no place and the chief executive had to be allowed a free hand , an ominous precedent that was to be followed by a series of major military initiatives by presidents with little or no regard to the war power of congress . |
| 9 | To the long-term capital outflow of $42 billion had to be added a new element , a short-term capital outflow of $22 billion , as foreign firms and individuals either withdrew their cash from US banks or increased their borrowing from them . |
| 10 | In all these senses , the nineteenth-century formulations of the idea of higher education had to be accounted a cultural experience in their own right . |