Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLYMOUTH had to survive a spirited comeback from Peterborough last night to earn an FA Cup third round tie at Ipswich Town . |
| 2 | Another member of ASUTRAMES explained how the repression increased , until there came a point when the Association had to call a halt to its public activities . |
| 3 | Legislation covering the conduct of elections , adopted at the same time , included the stipulation that presidential candidates had to pay a non-repayable deposit of CFA1,000,000 ( US$3,700 ) . |
| 4 | Tacoma 's own programme had to survive a court challenge at around the same time . |
| 5 | The drivers had to negotiate a testing two-mile course on the Princess Royal 's Gatcombe Park estate . |
| 6 | Drivers had to take a library of documents , including copies of invoices , details about loads carried and transit forms to be stamped at each border crossing . |
| 7 | Parties had to exceed a 5 per cent threshold of votes in either the Czech Lands or Slovakia in order to win seats ; votes for unsuccessful parties were redistributed proportionally among successful ones . |
| 8 | Lifestyles remained simple but identification with the masses was impossible if kids had to get a decent education . |
| 9 | In order to win West Bank allegiance in the face of Israeli and Jordanian competition , the PLO had to find a local partner . |
| 10 | Gazza had to call a halt before a 46,000 crowd here in the Olympic Stadium when a challenge from Mario Bortolazzi stretched the right knee that has undergone two major operations . |
| 11 | If the heat could not be sufficiently localised to avoid this , then the first solders had to have a higher melting point than the subsequent ones . |
| 12 | A left field superiority when the forms were presented alone was converted to a RVF superiority when subjects had to use a label for each form . |
| 13 | Marcel and Patterson ( 1978 ) presented one word , followed by a pattern mask ( see Chapter 4 ) such that the word could not be identified , and the mask was followed by a letter string about which subjects had to make a lexical decision . |
| 14 | In one , subjects had to make a judgment about whether or not the sentence was meaningful . |
| 15 | It is true that even during the final talks in Moscow the American delegation had to keep a wary eye on those at home who argued against the surrender of the advantages which they expected the United States to derive from further tests above ground . |
| 16 | Dustin had to drive a convertible in the pouring rain on a sunny day , rain being supplied by a water-spray truck driving along behind . |
| 17 | In a similar situation some years ago Rwanda had to abandon a plan to move the last 146 elephants in the country 40 km through a densely populated area because they could not find anyone in Africa who could run the drive . |
| 18 | Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted . |
| 19 | Richard had to organize a bridge of boats before he could cross . |
| 20 | As is usual until mid-morning , the street was jammed with vans and lorries unloading , taking up pavement as well as road , so that shoppers had to plot a course through a maze of obstacles . |
| 21 | Benny had to tell a lot of little lies in order to be allowed out late or indeed at all . |
| 22 | Even in the days of hard communism , parents had to pay a few yuan a term . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Appearing before Mr Justice Beaumount in the New South Wales Federal Court , Tooheys had to answer a charge of misleading the public and of deceptive advertising . |
| 25 | ‘ It was clear that there were rumours about and AEA had to make a statement . |
| 26 | Bohr therefore supposed that the electron had to occupy a circular orbit whose angular momentum took one of the discrete values |
| 27 | Eva had to cover a chair in stapled-together plastic bags before it was hygienic enough for his arse . |
| 28 | Third market companies had to find a member firm to sponsor them who would ensure not only the suitability of the company for trading , but also that the company 's decisions were communicated to the shareholders , and that there was an effective and orderly market in the shares . |
| 29 | Holford 's planners had to have a broad cultural background and were to be ‘ enablers ’ , building up from research and synthesis to a design end-product . |
| 30 | By the time that Edward Heath had to appoint a chairman twenty years later , he chose Professor Michael ( later Lord ) Swann , Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University , on the grounds that running the BBC was rather like running a university , with a ferment of ideas , plenty of eccentricity and troublesome students . |