Example sentences of "it had [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 2 | It had to happen to someone . |
| 3 | and it had to appeal to a broader group . |
| 4 | The National Bank said that for 1990 it had to adhere to a strict monetary policy aimed at keeping the hard currency account deficit under $550,000,000 , that of the state budget under 10,000 million forints and inflation under 19 per cent — conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) when it approved an agreement to pave the way for additional foreign loans to maintain the country 's creditworthiness . |
| 5 | It had to proceed through persuasion and encouragement — a difficult process with public-sector bodies , but almost impossible with major companies . |
| 6 | Anyway I was told it had to finish in thirteen weeks . |
| 7 | I kept wondering what it had to do with the cowboy we were going to see on the screen . |
| 8 | They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies . |
| 9 | It had to do with romance and adventure , with Lord Byron and Lord Elgin , with archaeology and theory . |
| 10 | It had to do with his insistence on using ‘ real ’ people , which was seen as a daunting prospect by many of the crew . |
| 11 | It had to do with height and space . |
| 12 | It had to do with the success of the one-nation myth . |
| 13 | ‘ I could n't understand what it had to do with the law . |
| 14 | It is most likely that it had to do with the extra fasts practised by the Pharisees and in this case the disciples of John the Baptist , who may have been mourning the death of their leader . |
| 15 | Where employers did see value in work experience schemes , it had to do with information about career choices . |
| 16 | It had to do with the personalities of the individuals and the way they work with each other when they meet . |
| 17 | It had to do with making a point . |
| 18 | Mostly it had to do with Time . |
| 19 | Maybe it was the power of the past , maybe it had to do with bonds of fear and guilt . |
| 20 | You see , the impulse behind my concept , my outline , it was personal , it had to do with my life . |
| 21 | Yes , it had to do with this old life of mine . |
| 22 | I suspect it had to do with his relationship with his father . |
| 23 | The second one , I just wanted to draw your attention to , was , it had to do with the home help service . |
| 24 | Georgiana Greenwood may have been partly to blame , but it had to do with the fact that we really were n't running the conference out of the college . |
| 25 | It had to succeed in selling , against Japanese competition , the product left to it by a conventionally organised British motor cycle industry which had already admitted defeat ; and sales were not keeping pace with production . |
| 26 | Sex was the second principal category covered by the code — this is what it had to say on that subject as well as Vulgarity , Obscenity , profanity , Costume and Dances : |
| 27 | It seems to us that the Bill would be open to criticism if it had to rely on provisions such as those in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 44(3) and ( 4 ) . |
| 28 | The problem of Sunday caddies was again aired but not to any effect , the committee believing it had to abide by the ‘ banning ’ decision made at the earlier bondholders meeting . |
| 29 | In 1957 , for example , when Britain decided to switch the basis of its defensive system from conventional to nuclear arms , it had to negotiate through WEU to secure a reduction in the level of its troop commitment on the continent . |
| 30 | The French economy was so weak that in 1953 it had to renege on an OEEC agreement of two years earlier . |