Example sentences of "had to [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to be a shaggy dog story , but we decided to contact the pooch ourselves to see if the tale was genuine . |
| 2 | ‘ It was recognised that to achieve the objectives there had to be a comprehensive training programme , ’ said Tim Holton , training and recruitment manger . |
| 3 | The solution had to be a hot water cylinder with an immersion heater . |
| 4 | However , if I was going to be able to maintain anything like good water quality , an essential requirement in any marine aquarium , my basic marine tank had to be a minimum size of 900 × 380 × 300mm ( 36″ × 15″ × 12″ ) with a capacity of 104 litres ( 23 gallons ) . |
| 5 | There had to be a rear entrance . ’ |
| 6 | The Messiah had to be a male figure . |
| 7 | If the first President of the BDDA had to be a hearing person , the choice was apt and inevitable in the circumstances . |
| 8 | Military combat in the 1980s survived within established armies where a man had to be a contracted , organised member of a unit . |
| 9 | Gradually , repeating over and over that there had to be a simple explanation , he had summoned up enough confidence to take hold of the note again , and the feather . |
| 10 | There had to be a first emergence somewhere . |
| 11 | Ruth was not going to admit that she had never actually made a phone-call herself , but there had to be a first time for everything , and since Connor was out , this would be the ideal opportunity . |
| 12 | This Melanie of his had to be a complete idiot to prefer someone else . |
| 13 | Commercially speaking , building superStrats had to be a safer bet for the manufacturers than attempting to break new ground . |
| 14 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 15 | It was the Mataura that had brought them from Scotland , and it had to be a good omen . |
| 16 | ‘ A country where a policeman smiled had to be a good place to settle . ’ |
| 17 | You had to be a good farmer to do that , a good practical farmer . |
| 18 | That had to be a good thing as far as she was concerned , she told herself , so therefore she took him exactly at his word . |
| 19 | Juliet tried to reassure her that she was n't any worse than yesterday , and that had to be a good sign . |
| 20 | With strategies like these for saving the day , it had to be a hardy individual indeed to do what Solly tried . |
| 21 | As Caparo showed , there had to be a specific relationship between the function that the defendant was requested to perform and the transaction in relation to which the plaintiff said he had relied on proper performance . |
| 22 | First , there had to be a major subversive or espionage activity that was likely to injure the national interest , and secondly the material likely to be obtained by the interception had to be of direct use in compiling the information necessary for the security services to carry out the tasks laid upon them by the state . |
| 23 | He was a busy man , of course , and you could n't waste his time with trivia ; it had to be a major problem . |
| 24 | But initially there had to be a real , genuine erm working class revolution and therefore Marx looked first to England because we were the most advanced and we 'd been in the business of running capitalism for s so much longer than any other country in the world . |
| 25 | I had never been as stubborn or single-minded about anything else , or as insistent that things had to be a certain way . |
| 26 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 27 | It had to be a collective propagandist , agitator , and organizer as well . |
| 28 | She had to be a passive , consenting thing , like a slave , a physical slave … . |
| 29 | No well it had to be a fair share out . |
| 30 | From the 1940s many educationalists and university policy makers took the view that any modern democratic nation had to be a well-educated nation ( or at least to have a well educated intellectual class , and a revitalized bureaucracy ) . |