Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hick had to wait 48 hours to chalk up the final six runs to complete the milestone after reaching 82 not out on Thursday . |
| 3 | In Scotland , the electorate had to pay this tax for an extra year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But ultimately the ordinary allied soldier had to find some reward for his exertions . |
| 7 | Until then , drivers had to wear protective capes . |
| 8 | Luch and Ruari had to supply ten pounds of wax , to polish the bulwarks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Plucky Steven had to have another operation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The rush in central London reached fever pitch even though shoppers had to endure constant disruption as a consequence of the IRA 's campaign . |
| 19 | The Defendants had to prove these communications were not records because if they were deemed records then the records management responsibility clearly stated each agency ‘ maintain an active , continuing programme for the economical and efficient management of the records of the agency ‘ with ‘ safeguards against the removal or loss of records he ( the agency head ) determines to be necessary and required by the Archivist . ’ |
| 20 | The stage at Stranmillis is too small for the 90-odd cast and a couple of fainting youngsters had to receive kindly ministrations from an American nurse . |
| 21 | The Kingman Committee had to pay considerable attention to what both teachers and pupils need to know . |
| 22 | This was the last opportunity the Legal Services Committee had to make oral submissions to the Advisory Committee before the latter produced its advice on both the Law Society 's application for extended rights of audience for solicitors and the CPS/GLS submission seeking to remove the restrictions under para 402(1) ( c ) in the Bar 's Code of Conduct on rights of audience for employed lawyers . |
| 23 | Important work had to take first place . |
| 24 | Having received the money and begun the video work herself , Mary Law had to recruit other members of staff to the scheme because the Humanities department had lost staff . |
| 25 | However , Thornton Heath depôt had to supply seven cars and for this purpose cars of the 552–601 batch of E/1s took the place of the Penge open toppers there . |
| 26 | The market-boast died first , as one by one , IBM 's hottest new products fell by the wayside , starting as early as Series/1 and the 8100 , continuing through System 38 , which was excellent , but scared IBM 's mainframe mafia too much , to the RT , such a disaster that when it came to the RS/6000 , IBM had to play new kid on the block and study and try to emulate the leaders in the Unix market to get the thing off the ground at all . |
| 27 | By this time , the climate in the Council was increasingly hostile to tramways , and the Management had to take desperate measures to secure the future of the Promenade and Fleetwood lines . |
| 28 | Management had to introduce radical changes rapidly . |
| 29 | That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt . |
| 30 | Tottenham had to thank another youngster for keeping them in a position to fight back . |