Example sentences of "it had [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 2 | It had to happen one day , but not yet . |
| 3 | It had to happen some time . |
| 4 | Even this better-than-expected showing , however , does n't do that much for Sun 's margins because it had to promise free MP upgrades . |
| 5 | It had to carry enough fuel for over 20 hours airborne . |
| 6 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
| 7 | Transport costs cut into that favourable balance ; the Company reckoned it had to sell Indian cotton textiles at 2½ to 3 times their Indian price to cover costs , and dividends were not normally above 7 or 8 per cent a year . |
| 8 | The security aspect was obviously serious : how could the Comrade 's convoy of cars approach the planned government buildings at its usual high speed , if it had to turn sharp corners ? |
| 9 | Forced to become more efficient and cost-conscious , it had to devise imaginative measures to keep services going . |
| 10 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 11 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton MP , Scottish Office environment minister , said it would be ‘ additional ’ to the public road building programme and could start by 1992 or 1993 — against a delay until the next century if it had to await public funding . |
| 12 | I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Look , it had to come some time , you know . |
| 14 | The R4000SMP iteration will feature new memory and bus modifications and integrated cache — the company says it had to alter previous MIPS ' R series parts to accommodate the cache . |
| 15 | Though the commission could buy by agreement it had to have effective powers of compulsory purchase if it was ‘ to ensure that the right land is made available at the right time ’ . |
| 16 | Because superiority was so uncertain for the individual , it had to have one form that was permanent and secure . |
| 17 | Ken talked a lot about suicide , but in Orton 's company it had to have sexual connotations , as though he were constantly — and whatever the subject of his conversations — having to keep up with the Joneses , in this case Orton and his assorted friends if not specifically Orton and Halliwell . |
| 18 | Built at 9am ( unless if ‘ it be Full Sea , the Service shall cease ’ ) it had to withstand three tides . |
| 19 | It had to identify new target markets . |
| 20 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 21 | But when Sweden 's shipbuilding industry slid into decline , it had to seek other ways of long term survival . |
| 22 | It had to meet huge mortgage indemnity insurance claims from lenders of repossessed homes now worth less than was lent on them . |
| 23 | However , the government demanded a five-year grace period before paying into the UN-supervised compensation fund for Kuwaiti victims of Iraq 's occupation and the ensuing war , on the grounds that it had to meet domestic needs first , including the US$194,000 million cost of reconstruction . |