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 | Parties had to exceed a 5 per cent threshold of votes in either the Czech Lands or Slovakia in order to win seats ; votes for unsuccessful parties were redistributed proportionally among successful ones . |
5 | Lifestyles remained simple but identification with the masses was impossible if kids had to get a decent education . |
6 | In order to win West Bank allegiance in the face of Israeli and Jordanian competition , the PLO had to find a local partner . |
7 | If the heat could not be sufficiently localised to avoid this , then the first solders had to have a higher melting point than the subsequent ones . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Even in the days of hard communism , parents had to pay a few yuan a term . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Bohr therefore supposed that the electron had to occupy a circular orbit whose angular momentum took one of the discrete values |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The judge had to consider a preliminary point concerning the application of the Limitation Act 1980 to the local authority 's claim . |
16 | He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Soon Karen had to begin a new notebook . |
19 | Councillors arriving for Leominster 's Planning Committee meeting had to walk a silent gauntlet of children and parents to get to the council chamber . |
20 | Dave Bassett 's team had to resist a late siege to ensure a place in the quarter-finals . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Publishers such as Ackermann had to employ a considerable body of engravers and watercolourists to keep the work moving smoothly . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | To win a Guinness Earth Science Award , applicants had to supply a 1,500 word essay covering the following subjects : |
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 . |