Example sentences of "had [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His right foot had to remain at right angles to his leg .
2 In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals .
3 He added that imports had to continue at competitive levels to safeguard jobs in the processing industry .
4 The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals .
5 A case in point was a series of devastating strikes that Finniston had to weather at British Steel in 1974 .
6 To keep clear of British radar and stay undetected , the bombers had to fly at low level and so never attained the necessary height .
7 In the event , we had to return at separate times and as the friend , Mr. Robin Townsend , was to cross first , he took the plastic ticket and we agreed he would arrange to have the ticket divided , and leave my part at your Ostend office .
8 I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary .
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