Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [to-vb] [prep] [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 | The major divisions went to the nobility , of course , but a Frankish soldier had to fight on command , in the hope that a successful battle or campaign would realise some spoil for himself . |
| 4 | 685 , where , as a result of there being no quorum at a half yearly meeting of a licensing court , the meeting could not be adjourned under the existing legislation and the Court of Session had to intervene by virtue of its nobile officium in order to prevent the expiry of certificates due for renewal at the meeting . |
| 5 | The deputy judge had to take into account also the other evidence relevant to the issue of testamentary competence . |
| 6 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 7 | To put this carefully engineered plasmid into the virus the NIH team had to rely on chance . |
| 8 | In deciding what procedures to use the project team had to take into account the fact that few of the schools associated with the study were likely to have moved towards a Cockcroft curriculum . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Too many Whitehall battles were fought because , for example , tourism had to stay with trade , with the result that a whole series of issues that should have been in the consumer department were not . |
| 11 | FRANK FREEMAN had to start from scratch . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | Normally , the commission had to dispose of land at the best price it could obtain , but there was one important exception . |
| 14 | One woman had to go to hospital . |
| 15 | Whatever the method chosen , these invitations were issued only for the more important — i.e. expensive — funerals ; those of lesser rank had to rely on word of mouth . |
| 16 | Both crew members ejected safely … but people on the ground had to dive for cover as the plane crashed in a ball of fire . |
| 17 | Such a strategy had to begin from recognition that |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the event , the government had to resort to Article 110 of the law , which comes into operation when there is a shortage of foreign exchange at the rates determined by the National Bank . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He ran about the library shouting and shaking his fists at the shelves and the Headmaster had to send for Matron to calm him down . |
| 22 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 23 | In the next four hours Gerry Mackenzie 's men stood off Japanese attacks , sometimes using the bayonet to keep the enemy from the airfield , but the platoon had to withdraw before daylight , destroying the airstrip installations as they left . |
| 24 | None of them seemed to include the tube in their itineraries , but there was some useful advice on how to secure the best berths on a Nile river cruiser and an interesting complaint about the lack of leg room on Concorde which assured him that the R and the F of this world had to contend with life 's little niggles just like everybody else . |
| 25 | J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law ’ , and so incorporated into the Neo-Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China ? ’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length . |
| 26 | Again , there were difficulties with Equity when I was selected and the whole thing had to go to arbitration because the company stood out for the casting it wanted . |
| 27 | Within hours Bull told Detective Superintendent Malcolm Hargreaves the hunt had to concentrate on north Wales . |
| 28 | Unlike the Torbay line in 1991 , however , the South Devon Railway had to set about purchasing or hiring a whole fleet of locomotives and rolling stock from its cash surplus after a sale price could not be agreed with the DVR General Manager for certain redundant DVR items . |
| 29 | Then Frenchman Auriol had to quit with engine trouble , leaving Sainz leader ahead of Kankkunen and Ari Vatenen with one day to go . |
| 30 | 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 . |