Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 5 | The poll tax or community charge had to meet the remaining quarter . |
| 6 | Because she had to drive the RFFS vehicle , the crash crew person had to don the protective clothing after arriving at the scene . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Without influential subjects serving about the pope , the king had to enlist the utmost support which he could muster among the cardinals in order to shape the papal response to his demands . |
| 9 | In fact this small War Cabinet had to consult the full Cabinet at all the big decisions , like sending the task force , the landing at San Carlos , before they could actually take any decisions to move in , and … this was a restoration of almost nineteenth-century Cabinet government . |
| 10 | the movement had to discuss the ultimate and logical outcome of political action or it would be adding to confusion . |
| 11 | Its senior partner , the Communist Party , has not carried all its followers with it this summer , and last month had to purge the entire leadership of its youth movement ( KNE ) . |
| 12 | To enter into the third court , the visitor had to receive the written permission of the Sultan . |
| 13 | But another important reason for the head horseman 's care was that he was directly responsible to the farmer for the way the field was cultivated ; and if the farmer brought forward a complaint , the head man had to bear the full burden of it . |
| 14 | But it said that to get at the root of the problem the Government had to tackle the whole issue of deprivation . |
| 15 | The women 's victory in 1918 was unspectacular and came about primarily because the government had to update the electoral register to include those serving in the armed forces . |
| 16 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 17 | The inability of the States of Western Europe to play a decisive role in the solution of these new questions was shown clearly by the impotent resentment with which the French government had to watch the first partition of Poland in 1772 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 1783–84 . |
| 18 | It also insisted that the North Korean government had to accept the full list of names and guarantee the safe return of all who made the trip . |
| 19 | For instance , there was no prescription charge for diabetes sufferers although people with cystic fibrosis had to pay the full amount for their drugs . |
| 20 | Each member of the troupe had to sign the formidable contract . |
| 21 | A few miles north of Thurlstone the new textile settlement at Clayton West had chapels for the Wesleyans , Independents , Particular Baptists , Methodist New Connection and Primitive Methodists , and the new Wesleyan Reform movement met in Aaron Peace 's warehouse , but those who preferred the services of the established church had to climb the steep hill to the ancient parochial centre at High Hoyland . |
| 22 | In places , the Serbian army had to ask the local Serbian militia permission to visit the camps . |
| 23 | The new army had to hold the Western Front after the demoralization of the French , following General Nivelle 's failed offensive of 16 April-21 May 1917 and did it with such success , that Allied victory became a possibility in 1918 . |
| 24 | No such guide was available : consumers wanting advance weekly information had to buy the individual guides to their own programmes published by the RTE , the BBC and ITV . |
| 25 | Poor Gedge had to attend the local infirmary where his misery was compounded when nurses found out he was in a band . |
| 26 | For men on beach reconnaissance had further to go than the saboteur or the raider bent on mere disruption : the reconnaissance report had to reach the main force . |
| 27 | Held , dismissing the action , that the statutory framework leading to the grant of planning permission envisaged that a local planning authority would balance the interests of the community against those of individuals ; that where a planning authority had granted consent to the development of an area , the measure of disturbance to individuals had to be considered against the changed character of the neighbourhood and those living close to a public highway affected by that change had to accept the increased volume of traffic in the greater public interest ; and that , accordingly , since as a result of planning permission the two roads now gave access to a commercial dock operating 24 hours a day , the serious disturbance to individuals from the movement of heavy goods vehicles was not an actionable nuisance ( post , pp. 460G–H , 461A–C , H — 462B , C–F ) . |
| 28 | Cecil Thompson , the manager of the plant , said the company had to face the inevitable . |
| 29 | Two resolutions passed by the Russian Supreme Soviet on Jan. 23 stated ( i ) that servicemen of the Black Sea Fleet had to take the military oath established by the CIS [ see p. 38729 ] and ( ii ) that the legislative , international affairs and external economic relations committees of the Russian Supreme Soviet were to examine by Feb. 6 the constitutionality of the 1954 decree transferring the Crimean oblast from Russia to Ukraine [ see p. 13507 ] . |
| 30 | And so er the guy had to bring the whole project forward a month . |