Example sentences of "it had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | Where employers did see value in work experience schemes , it had to do with information about career choices . |
| 4 | Mostly it had to do with Time . |
| 5 | It had to do with height and space . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To make the crushing of the torso believable , it had to collapse like metal , not break like fibreglass . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |