Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 2 | In the face of such concerted action it was clear that the Library Association had to take strong action on behalf of its members who , individually , could have little chance of opposing the ban . |
| 3 | Hick had to wait 48 hours to chalk up the final six runs to complete the milestone after reaching 82 not out on Thursday . |
| 4 | The arrogant princess refused to talk in English and Corbett had to use all his skill in French to conduct a conversation whilst ensuring he did not give offence . |
| 5 | In Scotland , the electorate had to pay this tax for an extra year . |
| 6 | Only one warship and some fireships had been lost but during Tuesday 1 July Torrington had to burn five more ships of the line , mounting from 72 to 50 guns , to prevent their falling into enemy hands , leaving Louis XIV master of the Channel . |
| 7 | At its height the ‘ feudal ’ system meant that Sussex could muster over 300 fully equipped mounted men , 84½ of whom were the responsibility of the Earls of Arundel and another 60 of the de Warennes ; the bishop of Chichester had to find four . |
| 8 | In the 1980s many Latin American NICs had to reschedule external debts and implement austerity budgets ( cuts in public services ) to improve their economic situations . |
| 9 | The Audi slammed into the side of the Volvo and Donna had to use all her strength to keep control of the car . |
| 10 | The selective use of vous and tu forms in dialogues involving different characters suggests that the French translator had to make conscious decisions about the nature of the relationships among different characters in the story and about the social standing of these characters as reflected in their adoption of certain conventions to do with approved/non-approved expression of familiarity and/or deference . |
| 11 | In November 1914 at the Annual General Meeting , it became clear the Club had to abort some costly schemes and , although not blaming the war , it must have been the cause . |
| 12 | But ultimately the ordinary allied soldier had to find some reward for his exertions . |
| 13 | Until then , drivers had to wear protective capes . |
| 14 | If drivers had to pay all these costs , they would be discouraged from making journeys where the benefits of travelling are less than the costs . |
| 15 | Each lineage had to provide suitable young men to act as " husbands " ( enangan ) in the tali-tying ceremonials of their enangar which were grand collective affairs held every ten years or so for all the immature girls of the group . |
| 16 | Luch and Ruari had to supply ten pounds of wax , to polish the bulwarks . |
| 17 | Space , however , was limited and Malc and I and the kids had to share one bedroom and keep praying for a council house of our own . |
| 18 | Plucky Steven had to have another operation . |
| 19 | As each new AGR started construction , such serious engineering and design problems were encountered that the designers had to make major alterations to the next in the series . |
| 20 | An ambulance had to travel 15 miles from Darlington to attend the man because the two units based in Barnard Castle had to take patients to Darlington Memorial Hospital , he said . |
| 21 | Skip shows us in the book how his aspirations for the boat decrease and how newcomers to the boat had to get used to the crew 's relaxed attitude . |
| 22 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 23 | At that time , customers for British.made cars had to pay extra for " optional " items like heated rear windows , reversing and fog lamps , and even windscreen wipers , heaters and demisters . |
| 24 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with each of the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 25 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 26 | Specifically , for the verbal task , subjects had to report 3-letter nonsense syllables presented in either the left or right hemifield and , for the spatial task , they had to locate the position of a dot in a rectangle exposed within one or other visual field . |
| 27 | This result was interpreted in terms of meaningfulness ' by Matsumiya , Tagliasco , Lombroso and Goodglass ( 1972 ) who showed in a separate study that inter-hemispheric asymmetry was greatest when subjects had to understand each stimulus word , and minimal when they could ignore the semantic content . |
| 28 | Indeed those dependent upon casual labour had to live close to docks and factories if they were to be on hand for work as it became available . |
| 29 | She used her own French pension of 20,000 livres ( c. £1700 sterling ) to pay for her daughter in France , but in addition the Scots had to provide 25,000 livres ( £2085 sterling ) . |
| 30 | So this is a major complication and I think this shows why Freud had to introduce this second model of the mind , because in his first model of the mind it was very simple and repression was the force that distinguished conscious from unconscious . |