Example sentences of "[noun] had [prep] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that could be arranged she took very poorly one day and an ambulance had to be sent for — luckily one of the nearby farms had a telephone . |
| 2 | When tankers were first allowed into the Lagoon channels had to be deepened for them , bringing more water into the Lagoon . |
| 3 | Debate in the Supreme Soviet began on Sept. 17 , with a view to taking a final vote on Sept. 21 , but in the event the vote had to be abandoned for lack of a quorum , a number of deputies having apparently boycotted the session deliberately in order to force a postponement . |
| 4 | An approved rod or other instrument had to be used for this purpose , and the punishment was not to be applied more than two hours after the offence . |
| 5 | But it was no easy task , and heavy equipment had to be manhandled for about a mile from the nearest road . |
| 6 | When Mr Heseltine became Defence Secretary in January 1983 a briefing paper on CND had to be provided for him . |
| 7 | Suitable recipients had to be found for the money raised . |
| 8 | He emphasized that peace had to be preserved for the entire human race and not for particular sections of it , pointing out that the word ‘ civilization ’ could be applied to a wide diversity of values . |
| 9 | Compensation had to be fought for , it was n't a matter of right , and a piece of a very small piece of coal fell down the shaft , the onsetter 's the man at the bottom , and it through his hand and he got compensation and then my father was sacked for the shovel . |
| 10 | There was such disruption at the entrance to Olympia that the start of the meeting had to be delayed for half an hour . |
| 11 | In another case Betty Jones who is 86 and unwell could n't cope with her senile husband of 83 , and because he could n't return home from the day centre a place had to be found for him . |
| 12 | The system was unwieldy , since grant applications had to be submitted for some three hundred individual services , and there were problems in the calculations of costs and hence of the appropriate subsidy ( Joy 1973 : 127–31 ; Parker 1978 : 7 ) . |
| 13 | Once requisitioned , vessels originally built for commercial purposes had to be adapted for military ones . |
| 14 | Mr. Tom Andrews , whom I remember as a very old man , had worked at The White Hart Hotel and even in his old age was in demand if a ham had to be sliced for a wedding or similar function . |
| 15 | There may well have been something lacking in the lives of the millions but that need had to be catered for and the catering was done by the ingenious and indefatigable army of commercial opportunists whose energy and boldness tell us an enormous amount about that age . |
| 16 | Films had to be delayed for shortage of money , and some cheques bounced . |
| 17 | No policy orthodoxy had to be imposed and no places had to be found for clients of the former leader who wished to be junior ministers . |
| 18 | The graves had to be searched for in what looked like a clearing in a pine wood , they were so thickly overgrown with grass and heather . |
| 19 | The waiting area had been full and in all twenty eight staff and outpatients had to be treated for the effects of gas . |
| 20 | Under the US 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act , five conditions had to be met for the lifting of sanctions , of which only two had been met by the time of de Klerk 's visit ( entering into negotiations with black representatives and lifting the ban on democratic parties ) . |
| 21 | The eel had to be prepared for her journey by staff at the centre who gradually acclimatised her in their newly built quarantine unit . |
| 22 | Lack of shelter meant that all cattle had to be housed for 7 to 8 months . |
| 23 | New officers had to be appointed for the new objective of woodland management for timber production . |
| 24 | If an extra 5% had to be paid for short selling shares , most of the underpricings disappeared . |
| 25 | To give you another example , the initial design for the Dalek had to be prepared for a Monday morning meeting . |
| 26 | Dates had to be obtained for many of the sites before the historical sequence would become clearer . |
| 27 | Next , Anna had to be tested for Aids . |
| 28 | Windows were shattered over a wide area and a number of persons had to be treated for injuries from flying glass and shock . |
| 29 | In the case of BIG and GeoRef , indexing policies have changed over the years , with the result that all possible permutations of authors ’ forenames and initials had to be allowed for whilst searching . |
| 30 | In the case of BIG and GeoRef , indexing policies have changed over the years , with the result that all possible permutations of authors ’ forenames and initials had to be allowed for whilst searching . |