Example sentences of "have had [prep] be a " in BNC.

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1 Coleman would have had to be a man of superhuman cunning and stupidity to have served for over 40 years fighting the very thing he was engaged in creating .
2 France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war .
3 It may have had to be a lavatory or else the bus on the way home .
4 " There were n't really many single men around , and he 'd have had to be a pretty outstanding young man to take her in hand . "
5 And it would have had to be a lie anyway .
6 ‘ I 've had to be a good liar myself to keep my head above water all this time .
7 I have had to be an accountant as well as a football manager . ’
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