Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not know where , and did not particularly care , except that it meant that the Establishment was on Amber Black , and every car had to have the magic mirror wand shoved underneath the chassis . |
| 2 | Flockmasters had to forget the last decade when seat-of-the-pants management brought reasonable returns from a supported market . |
| 3 | Parties had to exceed the 5 per cent limit to win seats in the Czech National Council , but the threshold in Slovakia was only 3 per cent . |
| 4 | Culturally , the Palestinian Jews had to face the increasing differentiation of the diaspora , both in Mesopotamia and in Egypt ; they also had to run a state efficiently within a Hellenistic — milieu . |
| 5 | In Palestinc the Jews had to face the intruding Greeks . |
| 6 | The TRACE II designers had to duplicate the entire knowledge network over and over in order to represent the time course of speech processing . |
| 7 | Cars had to use the single line to cross over from one track to the other when reversing . |
| 8 | Memory was tested by cued recall , using slides in which both the woman and the peripheral car were missing and subjects had to describe the missing details , and by recognition , four-alternative forced-choice ( 4AFC ) tested using an additional three slides with the colours of the peripheral and central information changed . |
| 9 | To achieve this end , Sir Edward had to overcome the parochial instincts of many teachers who felt , with some justification , that no Whitehall mandarin or local authority bureaucrat could possibly understand the problems or needs of the particular children they were teaching . |
| 10 | Until the late 1970s , manufacturers had to print the minimum weight or volume likely to be present . |
| 11 | As well as his usual diet , Alan had to consume the following each day : |
| 12 | In the case of public transport Mackintosh ( 1987 ) shows very clearly for London Transport in the early 1980s that politicians from the GLC had to challenge the market-based arguments of the bureaucrats in order to increase subsidy to keep fares down and maintain services . |
| 13 | The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target . |
| 14 | The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target . |
| 15 | In his last adventure Pete had to rescue the beautiful Princess Petal from the evil clutches of the monster Terradawn.And with your help he managed to do it . |
| 16 | Ironically , Clough 's own kid Nigel had to undergo the same perpetual ultra-critical appraisal of his skills before the Forest manager would accept the striker as a player first and a member of the family second . |
| 17 | The boxer : the end of the round , the bell went , his seconds had put down his stool , he was there to sit , and his opponent had to walk the whole way back to his own corner . |
| 18 | After the Stafford Forest Eyre of 1286 the Bishop of Coventry had to pay the enormous fine of £1,000 to recover his ‘ free chase ’ within the royal forest of Cannock . |
| 19 | He added that in order to find a reasonable solution to the situation ETA had to recognize the Basque parliament as representing the will of the Basque people and accept certain conditions attached to possible peace talks . |
| 20 | To demonstrate the possibility of the earth 's rotation , Oresme had to counter the common objections . |
| 21 | Ants had to play the first quarter one player short and did well to hold the Saracens to 9–9 . |
| 22 | IMP had to have the latest print-outs of the disaster . |
| 23 | and Mr had to see the different people being , acting like a magistrate while he was there as he was district commissioner . |
| 24 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 25 | It is a pity Martin had to teach the basic skidding skiing progression . |
| 26 | The poll tax or community charge had to meet the remaining quarter . |
| 27 | Lamb and Botham had to swallow the very bitter pill of being dropped . |
| 28 | The owner of the cattle had to pay the inflated damages or lose his animals . |
| 29 | Because she had to drive the RFFS vehicle , the crash crew person had to don the protective clothing after arriving at the scene . |
| 30 | This method of grinding grain had to await the human skill to fabricate tools from two materials because three wooden parts were essential to the rotary mill : the rynd which bridged the eye of the runner stone and enabled it to be hung on top of the wooden spindle , and the handle , used for turning the running stone . |