Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] a [adj] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The drivers had to negotiate a testing two-mile course on the Princess Royal 's Gatcombe Park estate . |
| 4 | Lifestyles remained simple but identification with the masses was impossible if kids had to get a decent education . |
| 5 | In order to win West Bank allegiance in the face of Israeli and Jordanian competition , the PLO had to find a local partner . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this case , the move of premises meant that the employee had to travel an extra 40 miles each day . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the students of Paris saw to it that the French President had to beat an undignified and premature retreat from Bucharest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Bohr therefore supposed that the electron had to occupy a circular orbit whose angular momentum took one of the discrete values |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In order to pursue its economic policies , the Conservatives had to construct an ideological climate which justified its unpicking of the Welfare State . |
| 15 | The judge had to consider a preliminary point concerning the application of the Limitation Act 1980 to the local authority 's claim . |
| 16 | One Head Girl had to reprimand an avid garlic eater . |
| 17 | He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance . |
| 18 | In the second half , the play was very even erm Barry Cooper away on the left , he slipped the ball to Jason Allen who scored number three , Leach had to save a high shot from Nigel Chambers who then conceded a corner doing so , the nearest as they came to scoring , and looked down just at that stage . |
| 19 | Soon Karen had to begin a new notebook . |
| 20 | Councillors arriving for Leominster 's Planning Committee meeting had to walk a silent gauntlet of children and parents to get to the council chamber . |
| 21 | Dave Bassett 's team had to resist a late siege to ensure a place in the quarter-finals . |
| 22 | Bird brains A Welsh rugby team had to play a Spanish soccer team during a tour , after a language mix-up in arranging the game . |
| 23 | The game was nearly an hour old before Woods had to make a worthwhile save — from Keane — then Marriott brought off a superb one-handed save to deny Hirst another goal . |
| 24 | Industrialized countries , however , felt that with international economic arrangements increasingly being negotiated through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , UNCTAD had to find a new purpose . |
| 25 | Publishers such as Ackermann had to employ a considerable body of engravers and watercolourists to keep the work moving smoothly . |
| 26 | So Mains had to organise a counter-punching attacking system , keeping the attacks rolling usually close to the forward mass with loose forwards and inside backs combining . |
| 27 | In the early part of 1990 there was a run of particularly low tides , one of which resulted in a boatyard in Sant'Elena , on the north-eastern edge of Venice , burning to a cinder because the fire boats had to take a roundabout route . |
| 28 | Gordon Marshall had to save a dangerous cross from Andy Kiwomya after only five minutes , and seven minutes later the Celtic keeper upended the same Dundee player in the box . |
| 29 | ‘ Mark Morris had to make a good save late on from a snapshot by a defender , but Gary Bennett also had a chance to win the game for us at the end . ’ |
| 30 | There followed a few minutes ' discussion where it seemed Cicely Hepwood had been all set to cancel an arrangement she and her husband had to visit a sick friend in hospital that afternoon . |