Example sentences of "had to [be] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 24 hours after the board of Farm Assured Scotch Livestock was polishing its repackaging venture , Richard Canvin , managing director of the Sims Food Group , told a London food conference there had to be incentives to farmers to produce high quality meat . |
| 2 | The cause had to be lack of food , the mints I 'd had earlier had obviously worn off , but , soft-hearted fool that I am , I was trying to wait so that me and the invalid could sit and break bread together . |
| 3 | A general election , when all candidates had to be members of KANU , was held in March 1988 [ see pp. 36136-37 ] . |
| 4 | And there had to be freedom of speech and publication , for without these the freedom of association is of no use . |
| 5 | There had to be freedom of association — that is , freedom to form political parties , and freedom to form the kind of associations we now know as pressure groups , whose purpose is to bring to bear on parties and on governments the combined pressure of the interests they represent . |
| 6 | Peter Donald , the Scottish League secretary , said there had to be grounds for optimism that a solution within the governing body 's framework was now attainable . |