Example sentences of "it [adv] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer . |
| 2 | It did n't have to be colourless , tasteless or odourless , it just had to be got , somehow or other , past Elinor 's front teeth , down her oesophagus and into her digestive system , even if to do so it should be necessary to hold her down and clamp a funnel between her jaws . |
| 3 | It just had to be gone through . |
| 4 | Yes , it just had to be — a Mr Cutting . |
| 5 | As for the lads — it just had to be those gorgeously groomed guys Jason Priestly and Luke Perry , stars of Beverly Hills 90210 . |
| 6 | It just had to be upfront and radical . |
| 7 | Feeling certain that her imagination was playing tricks on her , Fabia , who knew that Ven was still in Prague , saw that it just had to be that Lubor owned an exactly identical pair of shoes . |
| 8 | It just had to be this year , when Anthony was champion , that they did n't . |
| 9 | In many Third World countries , therefore , comprador is a term of abuse and , as a consequence has lost most of the little value it ever had for analysis . |
| 10 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 11 | It might be contemptible , but it still had to be worth conquering ; and the fifteenth-century verse chronicle by John Hardyng , which demonstrated that Scotland , with its three fair university cities and fruitful countryside , could easily victual incoming English armies , makes the point very well . |
| 12 | It still had to be filled with an eye dropper , but the pen proved so successful that Montblanc continued producing them until the outbreak of World War II . |
| 13 | Secondly , the machine was not at the time of the contract in a deliverable state , since it still had to be removed from the concrete emplacement . |
| 14 | And whenever she bought it always had to be the best . |
| 15 | but he he would never stay except , you know , it always had to be in respectable kind of a barn or something he would live in , least And in fact instead of that he would ra if it was good days he would rather lie at the dyke side . |
| 16 | The present disc was made with help from the Delius Trust and certainly justifies the faith it always had in Norman Del Mar . |
| 17 | Moreover , the industry is beginning to lose the industrial image that it once had of a strike-torn and unreliable supplier . |
| 18 | The decision can only fuel speculation that it is suffering badly in the heat of an overcrowded Sparc-compatible marketplace that it once had to itself . |
| 19 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 20 | It lacks the vision , the panache , the self-confidence it once had under Mrs Thatcher , before she went sour . |
| 21 | This meant that the book not only had to pass general political censorship , commonly known as glavlit , the main obstacle for works of fiction ; it also had to be approved by the relevant government institutions , the Ministry of Atomic Energy , whose senior officials were named by Medvedev as being responsible for the accident . |
| 22 | This was very disturbing emotionally for George , but it really had to be done . |
| 23 | Thanks to his father 's pre-war prudence , a fortune was there ; it simply had to be deployed . |
| 24 | It simply had to be endured . |
| 25 | It then had to be tested by training officers and checked by the IPG . |
| 26 | It then had to be washed and hung up to dry before my bucketful was " sold " to someone who got it ready for the shops . |
| 27 | It then had to be left to his governors and his staff colleagues to make such use as they could of any combination of qualities which he revealed . |
| 28 | ‘ It almost had to be , did n't it ? ’ said Donna . |
| 29 | Neuron Data 's UK operation replaces the distributorship arrangement it previously had with Data Sciences Ltd . |
| 30 | Local communities thus had to find more money to fulfil even their admitted obligations under the statute of 1327 , and the regular wearing of military uniform , which began in the 1330s , added to their burden since it too had to be paid for by the community . |