Example sentences of "it had [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps ironic that , with such a volume of water just a few yards from the doors , it had to use steam . |
| 2 | In the past , it had to use customers ' own equipment to develop applications . |
| 3 | It had to carry conviction with a better educated , more discriminating public . |
| 4 | It had to do determination and persistence . |
| 5 | In September it was asked by the MOD how much scope it had to lift ammunition production ( it provides about 45% of the ministry 's total purchases ) . |
| 6 | The only problem was it had to incorporate Wings … ’ |
| 7 | It had to go south of the Slieve Bloom mountains , on the southern rim of the central depression , just as it had to go north of the Ballyhoura mountains , seventy miles farther to the southwest . |
| 8 | It had to go south of the Slieve Bloom mountains , on the southern rim of the central depression , just as it had to go north of the Ballyhoura mountains , seventy miles farther to the southwest . |
| 9 | At the same time as the US sought to stiffen French resolve , at least to continue the war , it had to persuade France in effect to let go because , at the very least , it had recognized that the forces of what was nominally ‘ the French Union ’ in Indo-China in reality needed men : and these men would have to be found for and fight in the National Army of Vietnam . |
| 10 | How would it know that it had to lose weight ? |
| 11 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 12 | It had to take place over a long period , in the face of a prodigious number of uncontrolled variables which were likely to confuse the outcome . |
| 13 | Was it really so important that it had to take priority over something as necessary as post , which often contains faxes and other mail urgently required . |
| 14 | He maintained that the increase was reasonable to provide sport for all , but insisted that since leisure and recreation expenditure took up 30 per cent of the council budget it had to safeguard jobs . |
| 15 | Its trade with capitalist countries , like that of its Latin American neighbours , was squeezed in the mid-1980s , when it had to re-negotiate payments of hard-currency debts . |
| 16 | Chris Ivory , chief executive at Bedale food firm Dalepak said he knew of a small company which would struggle to stay in business if it had to raise wages at the present time . |
| 17 | All the , the unlimitable supply of God 's grace could not save you or me by itself it had to have the other side , it had to have faith , I have to receive it . |
| 18 | The IBM Corp board found itself paying out rather more for the services of its new chairman and chief executive : it had to guarantee Louis Gerstner the value of stock and options he holds in RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp ; Gerstner is still an RJR Nabisco director and is not under any deadline to exercise his options , which run another 11 years ; the guarantee covers 300,000 shares of RJR stock and options for an additional 3.2m shares , with a guaranteed price of $8.125 a share . |
| 19 | The IBM Corp board found itself paying out rather more for the services of its new chairman and chief executive : it had to guarantee Louis Gerstner the value of stock and options he holds in RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp . |
| 20 | The world had changed : de Chavigny could no longer cater just to the needs of those who had arrived ; it had to make provision for those on the way up . |
| 21 | It had to make provisions of £386,000 to cover bad debts . |
| 22 | The exhibition was open for five weeks until 5th June , when it had to make way for models of the Wellington monument competition . |