Example sentences of "it had [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to proceed through persuasion and encouragement — a difficult process with public-sector bodies , but almost impossible with major companies . |
| 2 | It had to do with romance and adventure , with Lord Byron and Lord Elgin , with archaeology and theory . |
| 3 | Maybe it was the power of the past , maybe it had to do with bonds of fear and guilt . |
| 4 | Where employers did see value in work experience schemes , it had to do with information about career choices . |
| 5 | Mostly it had to do with Time . |
| 6 | It had to do with height and space . |
| 7 | It seems to us that the Bill would be open to criticism if it had to rely on provisions such as those in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 44(3) and ( 4 ) . |
| 8 | In 1957 , for example , when Britain decided to switch the basis of its defensive system from conventional to nuclear arms , it had to negotiate through WEU to secure a reduction in the level of its troop commitment on the continent . |
| 9 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 10 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |
| 11 | To make the crushing of the torso believable , it had to collapse like metal , not break like fibreglass . |
| 12 | It was quite a lengthy questionnaire and because it had to cater for teachers whose experiences of SSE had differed considerably , for some teachers was not easy to complete . |
| 13 | As it was too large to be put on a lorry to be moved from site to site it had to travel on roads under its own power and was held to be intended to be used on roads . |
| 14 | Prior to this time it had to travel in cask and the resultant ‘ sparkling ’ wine must have been a sorry product , hardly an advertisement for its quality and reputation . |
| 15 | The main weakness of the programme was that schooling could hardly be called accessible when those who were supposed to benefit from it had to pay for tuition . |
| 16 | It is hard to put a value on a company which has large assets and turnover , but which is barely profitable , and it could be that BAe found the price it had to pay for Rover just too good to refuse . |
| 17 | It had to combine with others , to " capture " larger organizations or to assume leadership of wider groups . |