Example sentences of "it had [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the ( west Berlin ) Senate took them over , it had to close some because they were so run-down . |
| 2 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 3 | It had to happen one day , but not yet . |
| 4 | It had to happen sometime and now was as good a time as any . |
| 5 | It had to happen some time . |
| 6 | Even this better-than-expected showing , however , does n't do that much for Sun 's margins because it had to promise free MP upgrades . |
| 7 | It had to carry enough fuel for over 20 hours airborne . |
| 8 | The Indian in charge of it had to do all the technical work himself , and I gave the short address that had been scheduled . |
| 9 | In the pilot scheme , the centre 's staff took about 20 hours to compile one chart , largely because it had to do much of the cartography by hand . |
| 10 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
| 11 | Transport costs cut into that favourable balance ; the Company reckoned it had to sell Indian cotton textiles at 2½ to 3 times their Indian price to cover costs , and dividends were not normally above 7 or 8 per cent a year . |
| 12 | The security aspect was obviously serious : how could the Comrade 's convoy of cars approach the planned government buildings at its usual high speed , if it had to turn sharp corners ? |
| 13 | If Travellers Fare did not wish to provide a service on a train , there should be none ; if they closed a refreshment room , it had to lie idle for a year before a private operator was allowed to take over . |
| 14 | For a text to be described as a nouveau roman it had to exhibit self-reflexive and metafictional features as well as foreground the exploration of the semantic and phonetic properties of language . |
| 15 | Only thing she were n't chuffed about is she could n't cash cheque , it had to go all through bank and everything . |
| 16 | Forced to become more efficient and cost-conscious , it had to devise imaginative measures to keep services going . |
| 17 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 18 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton MP , Scottish Office environment minister , said it would be ‘ additional ’ to the public road building programme and could start by 1992 or 1993 — against a delay until the next century if it had to await public funding . |
| 19 | I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Look , it had to come some time , you know . |
| 21 | The R4000SMP iteration will feature new memory and bus modifications and integrated cache — the company says it had to alter previous MIPS ' R series parts to accommodate the cache . |
| 22 | Though the commission could buy by agreement it had to have effective powers of compulsory purchase if it was ‘ to ensure that the right land is made available at the right time ’ . |
| 23 | When I was filmed wearing a bikini , it had to have two lower halves . |
| 24 | Because superiority was so uncertain for the individual , it had to have one form that was permanent and secure . |
| 25 | Erm so it had to have all the lighting , official lighting for the continent and so on and so forth . |
| 26 | Ken talked a lot about suicide , but in Orton 's company it had to have sexual connotations , as though he were constantly — and whatever the subject of his conversations — having to keep up with the Joneses , in this case Orton and his assorted friends if not specifically Orton and Halliwell . |
| 27 | Built at 9am ( unless if ‘ it be Full Sea , the Service shall cease ’ ) it had to withstand three tides . |
| 28 | It had to identify new target markets . |
| 29 | It said that in reaching its decision , it had to balance two competing factors : ( a ) The public interest that requires the evidence to remain secret . |
| 30 | It had to look ordinary enough to appeal to a much broader market than the CX , but quirky enough to attract 15 years ' worth of loyal CX owners . |