Example sentences of "had to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 2 | We told him that he had to have a specific programme … that he had to train the hardest that he had ever done in his life . |
| 3 | Holford 's planners had to have a broad cultural background and were to be ‘ enablers ’ , building up from research and synthesis to a design end-product . |
| 4 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 5 | However , he had to have a close feeling of empathy with the horse in the first place to be able to transmit the mental idea . |
| 6 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 7 | In the event he had to have a below-the-knee amputation . |
| 8 | To win an award , each restaurant had to have a healthy eating option on the menu , be spotlessly clean and provide a non-smoking area . |
| 9 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 10 | Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day . |
| 11 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |
| 12 | Bracewell , who received the injury in an accidental clash with Gavin Peacock in the derby game at Newcastle last month , played in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Norwich City , but missed the midweek defeat at Leicester last week when he had to have a slight blockage in his nose cleared . |
| 13 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 14 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 15 | Out of the gentlemen who came into farming at that time [ before mechanization ] only about one in twenty could make it go : the others had to have a skilled man to manage the farm for 'em . |
| 16 | It was not possible to vary this , because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism . |
| 17 | The King 's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that . |
| 18 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |
| 19 | He had to have a new battery for it , and two of the tyres were n't legal . |
| 20 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
| 21 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 22 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 23 | We knew we had to have a women-only group . |
| 24 | You think about it , it 's never , I mean we had to have a special fire door put on cos our we go through to our garage . |
| 25 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 26 | Nationalisation had to have a clear socialist stamp on it . |
| 27 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 28 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 29 | Er , the Police Authority last year I think actually had to have an extra nine hundred thousand pounds of spending , the budget was funded by the constituent 's authorities , erm , and we 've already for next year in fact , made available effectively six hundred thousand pounds worth of extra spending by erm , various means , so I would hope that erm , the authority does use as , as much prudence and restraint in its financial affairs as possible , because of the , the effects on all , all concerned . |
| 30 | The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat . |