Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It meant that heads had to discuss with governors and parents as well as with staff precisely how to make use of greater freedom .
3 Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year .
4 Their neighbours in the farm beyond were also raided that morning , and to get to that farm the police cars had to go past Mrs B 's front door .
5 Overseas branches had to conform to LDCs ' central bank requirements .
6 Until now , local adults and youngsters had to travel to Britain for regular treatment .
7 The recipients had to agree to devaluation among other provisions .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Although all my aids had to work in unison , I had to really concentrate on being able to work them independently of each other .
11 Now it would be helpful if some of the new ministers ' ideas had to do with money .
12 Needless to say , plants had to evolve before animals : i.e. they had to become the food for which primitive animals had in turn to colonize the land to seek .
13 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 .
14 Their coats had to shine like satin , and their harness had to be in as good condition as possible .
15 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 .
16 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 " .
17 Disqualified persons had to rely on secrecy .
18 In the present study none of the patients had to withdraw from therapy because of side effects , irrespective of the length of treatment .
19 Patients in our study fared better with NIPPV , and in the conventional treatment group ( 43% of whom received doxapram ) some patients had to switch to NIPPV .
20 After devastating some local villages , perhaps as much to gain additional supplies as for any military purpose , the Norman forces had to prepare for battle with a formidable Saxon army .
21 In June the Avonlea boys and girls had to go to Charlottetown to take their examinations .
22 At the Restoration of Charles II , the church which had been used by the Bedford Congregation was returned to the Church of England and its members had to meet on village greens and in barns .
23 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 ) .
24 Someone had said that nowadays doctors had to double as priests , offering general consolation and advice to their patients .
25 Trade sanctions had to remain as promoters of environmental protection , he argued .
26 CAN Subic Bay , the huge military base that the Americans had to abandon in November , again become an asset to the Philippines ?
27 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 .
28 In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought .
29 But the following year the Ryder Cup men had to go to Muirfield Village — Jack 's patch — the course and club he created , to play a team captained by the Golden Bear himself .
30 It was perhaps fortunate for both of them that Mr Toogood was in America and Mr Shelve was at home in Haslemere with influenza , but publishers had to go to America and they were also as likely as anyone else to catch influenza , Penelope explained .
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