Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 2 | The coalition had to agree in principle to the report , announcing its determination to implement the report 's assumption that mass unemployment must be prevented . |
| 3 | A further — and connected — factor contributed to this change : the expense which the individual cavalryman had to incur in order to fulfil his proper role in war . |
| 4 | The major divisions went to the nobility , of course , but a Frankish soldier had to fight on command , in the hope that a successful battle or campaign would realise some spoil for himself . |
| 5 | That little girl had to struggle on because the flat rent had to be paid , she had to struggle on because she had a car , kids had to go to school , until she died . |
| 6 | Lucy had to stay in bed as much as possible on doctor 's orders , Dad was spending more and more time on the golf course and in the pub to escape from what he called the ‘ pressures ’ , and Charles was in an increasingly pessimistic mood about the future of Chester 's . |
| 7 | Lucy had to stand on tiptoe to use it , but when she did it gave her a partial view of the clientele at their tables . |
| 8 | In 1706 , after his victory at Turin , Prince Eugene had to interfere in person to prevent a general massacre of the French wounded by the imperial forces ; and after the battle of Zorndorf in 1758 many of the wounded Russians left on the field were buried alive by Prussian soldiers and local peasants . |
| 9 | The increasing numbers of colleges approaching the CNAA had to do in part with difficulties over validation by universities — particularly those which were unwilling or reluctant to validate honours degrees — and in part with the attraction of the CNAA as a validating body which could consider a range of courses , including those in the areas of proposed diversification . |
| 10 | 685 , where , as a result of there being no quorum at a half yearly meeting of a licensing court , the meeting could not be adjourned under the existing legislation and the Court of Session had to intervene by virtue of its nobile officium in order to prevent the expiry of certificates due for renewal at the meeting . |
| 11 | The recipients had to agree to devaluation among other provisions . |
| 12 | In compiling the full fixtures for the season , programme planners had to take into account a first division increased in size by two to 16 , plus this autumn 's tour by New Zealand . |
| 13 | In compiling the full fixtures for the season , programme planners had to take into account a first division increased in size by two to 16 , plus this autumn 's tour by New Zealand . |
| 14 | The deputy judge had to take into account also the other evidence relevant to the issue of testamentary competence . |
| 15 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 16 | To put this carefully engineered plasmid into the virus the NIH team had to rely on chance . |
| 17 | In deciding what procedures to use the project team had to take into account the fact that few of the schools associated with the study were likely to have moved towards a Cockcroft curriculum . |
| 18 | Claridges and the Savoy had to fight off take-over bids with borrowed money . |
| 19 | Although all my aids had to work in unison , I had to really concentrate on being able to work them independently of each other . |
| 20 | Now it would be helpful if some of the new ministers ' ideas had to do with money . |
| 21 | In 1932 , the young hopeful Graham Greene had to pay for part of Stamboul Train to be reprinted after J B Priestley had objected to ‘ Mr Savory ’ , a pompous writer of potboiling sagas . |
| 22 | I remember when I worked in Ninewells and the Queen Mother was coming and the same thing happened , the domestics had to work over time to clean up Ninewells which is a relatively new hospital . |
| 23 | Their coats had to shine like satin , and their harness had to be in as good condition as possible . |
| 24 | Mendel 's answer is no , for not only economic resources had to change through modernisation , but also the traditional political regime had to be replaced by urban classes used by commercial and bourgeois interests the main beneficiaries of change . |
| 25 | In making his decisions about gifts or patronage , a king had to bear in mind that his nobles too had clients , and obligations of their own . |
| 26 | Tran , who was the party 's most outspoken advocate of the notion that political and economic reforms had to proceed in tandem if either was to succeed , was expelled for " grave violations of organization , principles and discipline of the party " . |
| 27 | Brenner was willing ; Scholz had to go into town himself . |
| 28 | When Elsie had to retire for health reasons , we were once again without a teacher but Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman helped out and then Joan Gatfield , a leader in training , decided to do some training with us . |
| 29 | Disqualified persons had to rely on secrecy . |
| 30 | Too many Whitehall battles were fought because , for example , tourism had to stay with trade , with the result that a whole series of issues that should have been in the consumer department were not . |