Example sentences of "had [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases there was little domestic support for communist policies and a new administration had effectively to be installed by the Red Army ( this was the case in the GDR , Poland and Romania ; Bulgaria , where the communists had enjoyed some support , took the German side during the war and here too a communist government was imposed by the Red Army ) . |
| 2 | Government forces had constantly to be at hand . |
| 3 | On warm days the area between the lawn and water surface had constantly to be watched so that , immediately signs of shrinkage appeared , water could be sprayed on to the puddled surface . |
| 4 | If the Unity Campaign was to have any effect its links with the Labour Party had constantly to be underlined . |
| 5 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 6 | How jarring it seemed then that , at the consecration , reference had necessarily to be made to the man Jesus of Nazareth : he had to take centre stage . |
| 7 | said he believed we had all to be constantly critical of ourselves in AEA . |
| 8 | His position in England had to be secured , and early difficulties in Denmark , Thorkell , Olaf of Norway and Anund Jacob of Sweden had all to be overcome ; thus , not until 1028 did Cnut 's position in Scandinavia rival Swegen 's in 1013 . |
| 9 | The television had not defeated her because nothing had ever gone wrong with it , and it had only to be switched on and off or , scarcely more complicated , over . |
| 10 | The Shetlanders were the only children I have ever known who had only to be asked once to perform in public , without even token resistance they took to their fiddles and played . |
| 11 | Jurors had only to be ‘ of sufficient intelligence and respectability ’ , but in 1 868 a financial test was instituted in order to exclude low-status white-collar workers . |
| 12 | It had only to be channelled . |
| 13 | He had only to be patient . |
| 14 | Those contrary approaches , contrary calculations and contrary totals , the one nearly twice the other , had only to be set up to illustrate the difficulty of the problems in this case . |
| 15 | The original conception of the public corporation was that it had only to be given its ‘ marching orders ’ by the political authority and could then be left to pursue the ‘ national interest ’ as management saw fit ( SCNI 1968 : 34 ) . |
| 16 | Here again I respectfully agree with the observations made by Lord Donaldson M.R. , at pp. 324–325 , and by Neill L.J. , at pp. 326–327 , when rejecting the proprietary argument , which had not been advanced before Wright J. but which had rightly to be considered when it was put forward for the first time in the Court of Appeal . |
| 17 | If the provisions were to work , there had obviously to be a clear definition of the institutions to whom they applied and the institutions chosen were mainly those for which the Bank of England had supervisory responsibility under the 1979 Banking Act , expanded by a few additions . |
| 18 | The slow erosion of ducal authority through the fluctuating number of Gascon appeals ( some of them quite frivolous ) had somehow to be countered . |
| 19 | She felt no particular guilt : merely that marriage was a kind of old-fashioned scale : a tray on either side in which the fors and againsts had somehow to be kept in balance , and that extramarital sex had sometimes to be heaped on one side just to keep it steady because indefinable things were piling on the other . |
| 20 | This opinion had soon to be revised . |
| 21 | Some Indian railways attempted to cope with the great pressure of third-class passengers by installing them in double-decker carriages , but these had soon to be abandoned because they proved to be unsafe and top-heavy . |
| 22 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 23 | Victorians , who had yet to discover the stiff upper lip and the view that religion had always to be a serious matter , were passionate people who expressed their feelings freely and often loudly . |
| 24 | You had always to be on a level piece of ground , you see , with no rise whatsoever and we always had that ; we had an excellent stretch of green sward a short distance from the school , and we gathered there . |
| 25 | Gray had stated that the painter 's view of a landscape had always to be from a low point . |
| 26 | No solution was found : within a few years the European powers were at war again , essentially over the question whether Spain and her colonies were going to pass into the hands of a relation of the King of France or a relation of the Holy Roman Emperor ; in the end they passed into the French line of descent , and in the eighteenth century policy towards France had always to be conducted in the light of the possibility that the French and Spanish government might ally for war . |
| 27 | Marriage had always to be delayed until a suitable standing was achieved among middle-class and respectable poor ( Macfarlane 1986 ) . |
| 28 | I found I had always to be looking at her feet . |
| 29 | It seems that femininity had always to be ‘ cultivated , achieved and preserved , while masculinity could be left to look after itself ’ . |
| 30 | So the paths of light rays in the event horizon had always to be moving parallel to , or away from , each other . |