Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although all my aids had to work in unison , I had to really concentrate on being able to work them independently of each other . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | She had not even had the support of her mother , sister , or boyfriend while she gave birth , and the baby had to stay in hospital for several weeks after she returned alone to her bedsit : |
| 10 | Post-war credits are extra tax that people had to pay in addition to their income tax between April 1941 and April 1946 . |
| 11 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 12 | Thus in ( 36 ) , a typical example of the infinitive of result , managed evokes all the efforts which the subject had to make in order to attain the result and so situates the third-person support in time before — and all the way up to — the point at which " getting free " is actualized . |
| 13 | Newspapers had to bear in mind restrictions the Monopolies Commission could impose ( though this proved a feeble weapon , as Murdoch 's accumulation of titles showed ) . |
| 14 | He needed to mobilize all his resources in order to control his diocese , much as kings had to do in order to rule their kingdoms . |
| 15 | Voters had to decide in conscience ‘ whether other factors outweigh the damage which divorce would certainly cause to individuals , to families , to children and to the whole of society ’ ( Irish Times , 13 June 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Even if this appears to have occurred , a deconstructive account will show how such a text had to dissimulate in order to cover over its own openings , or , to put it the other way round , it will show how history must always be organized by an attempted occlusion of its own conditions of historicity . |
| 17 | The public is less familiar with the consequences for prison management of the battles in which those former prisoners had to engage in order to establish their innocence . |
| 18 | Rosie had to stay in hospital for ten days , but on the first Monday morning after they let her out , she came round to visit the family . |
| 19 | Liza had to stay in bed and Frankie was downstairs in front of the fire . |
| 20 | But an assumption that Ptolemy had to make in order to predict these positions correctly was that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the earth as at other times . |
| 21 | The education and training of Health Care workers should include at least the possibility of working in partnership with people rather than for people , so that the experience of unlearning , deroling and relearning through which the family development nurses had to go in order to work effectively in this way with people , can be avoided . |
| 22 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 23 | In the five steps above there were only two that were dramatic — where one partner had to speak in role and the class improvised . |
| 24 | In other words , support for the education policies of the church were the quid the Irish party had to give in order to obtain the quo of the bishops ' endorsement of the party as the genuine political representatives of the Irish people or nation . |