Example sentences of "it had [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 A truly political art , he realised , would not content itself with the message alone ; it would it had to engage the viewer in a questioning of the nature of the institutions and the pressures they exert , and thereby subject them to the necessary critique .
2 For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 .
3 Grand Met maintains it had to issue the leases after a Monopolies and Mergers Commission report which said the six big brewers could not own more than 2,000 pubs .
4 The local authority was considering that request when it had to move the children and decided to place them with foster parents .
5 That it was not enough to have a health care system that treated the symptoms , it had to tackle the root cause of the problem .
6 For Business Post there was the added complication that as a franchise operator , it had to sell the concept to its franchisees .
7 I mean it has n't done it any good all the in Amy 's bedroom where where it had to put the copydex it 's all got brownish and , has n't it ? you can see where the .
8 Perhaps it was too small a bed because it had to hold the ghosts of Mo Magill and Jenny Maxim 's dead wife as well .
9 It was using what assets it had to keep the group afloat .
10 It followed , therefore , that if the Labour Government was to secure acceptance of its economic package , it had to secure the support of MPs from either the Liberal or the Conservative party .
11 Another scholar claims that since the government was trying to create a class of peasant smallholders , it had to safeguard the peasant 's person , his property and his entrepreneurial activity ; " Securing these conditions without an apparatus of justice was impossible " .
12 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 .
13 With self-service the product had to work hard to sell itself , and it had to withstand the new phenomenon of customer handling .
14 Many factors had to be taken into account in the design of packaging for this new style of shopping : the package had to be sufficiently strong and protective of its contents , and able to withstand handling ; it had to offer the customer information about the product with clear and concise labelling ; it had to be easily identifiable from any angle ; it had to be quick , easy and safe to stack and to look attractive both on its own and in bulk displays .
15 When Imperial Airways was formed in 1924 to link the British Empire by a network of routes it had to overcome the problem of flying over featureless deserts with virtually no navigational aids .
16 And to do that it had to follow the successful formula of the present day , of which the leading exponent was the Sun .
17 It had to involve the farm .
18 For the press , the loosening of the relationship with politicians produced a dilemma : it aspired to greatness as the fourth estate and as an institution for political enlightenment yet it had to pursue the mass audience in order to survive commercially .
19 He said because it had to cross the busy East Coast line at Darlington the timing was crucial and did not allow for a call at Allen 's West .
20 To do this it had to gain the support , both of the judiciary and the public , for its new measures .
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