Example sentences of "had [verb] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain had to choose whether to let him pass or lead him into the house and try to steer him away from the kitchen . |
| 2 | He had to choose whether to grasp power at every opportunity or to love others and to trust in God . |
| 3 | In his valuable and revealing Diaries of a Cabinet Minister R. H. S. Crossman gives an account of how the Labour Cabinet of which he was a member had to decide whether to allow an oil company to build a refinery on Canvey Island in Essex . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal had to decide whether to authorize surgery on a week-old child born with Down 's syndrome and duodenal atresia . |
| 5 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 6 | The convention 's preparatory committee had discussed whether to advocate a declaration of support for direct negotiations with PLO members " having no prior record of terrorist activity " , but in the event this was left unresolved . |
| 7 | He could have stopped the trial and we had discussed whether to apply for a stay of prosecution , but once I was in the fight I wanted to carry on , whatever the consequences . ’ |
| 8 | Before the event , I had debated whether to bring my director to the event , to reinforce the quality image of the Association which he in effect supports by sponsoring me . |
| 9 | After the Fleischmann and Pons press conference in 1989 Jones recalled this early achievement of ‘ breakeven ’ in muon catalysed fusion and joked that they had wondered whether to call a press conference in 1982 and announce that energy output from fusion had been accomplished . |