Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many facets of the problem had to be addressed . |
| 32 | An unprecedented hunger strike took place in Tbilisi , the republican capital , in an attempt to block the changes ; more than a hundred of the demonstrators had to be taken to hospital . |
| 33 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |
| 34 | All of the birds appeared to be heading towards a high headland far across on the other side of the bay and , according to our map , this headland was called Fuglafjell — ‘ bird mountain' . |
| 35 | The court may order part of the goods seized to be sold to cover these ( Ord 25 , r 8 ) . |
| 36 | The relevant units of the matrix came to be called strategic business units ( SBUs ) . |
| 37 | Such an interpretation could give rise to practical difficulties in appropriate cases but the wording of the legislation had to be simply applied . |
| 38 | The man 's Jacobitism clearly prevented him from securing any alternative office , and the division of the collectorship had to be resurrected . |
| 39 | Some stretches of the river seemed to be racing downstream while the adjoining stretch , maybe fifty yard wide , raced in the opposite direction causing silent eddies and whirlpools . |
| 40 | of the man seemed to be on display . |
| 41 | The backers rather misjudged the mood of the populace at the time , and far from attracting crowds of culture-hungry theatre-goers , the actor-managers of the day had to be protected from the mob by the soldiery . |
| 42 | He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’ |
| 43 | Every new-built house or freshly furnished room is a fiction of the life intended to be lived there . |
| 44 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 45 | The text of the work had to be submitted to Vienna for approval and by 24 August it had still not arrived for Mozart to set ( the wedding was to take place in October ) . |
| 46 | We had reached a position of stalemate — but a position which for the sake of the Government had to be settled . |
| 47 | The major activity of the youths seemed to be ‘ doing nothing , , and when asked what they did on the street that was the standard reply . |
| 48 | The Act sought to preserve UK fishing quotas for UK fishermen by stipulating that UK-registered boats had to be 75 per cent British-owned and that 75 per cent of the crew had to be UK residents . |
| 49 | Most of the prisoners had to be carried out on stretchers . |
| 50 | None of the miners wanted to be a target . |
| 51 | Although the Foreign Ministry on April 14 had said that full membership of the EC continued to be one of Turkey 's " main foreign policy goals " , the European press noted that the Turkish government now accepted that " purely demographic considerations " precluded Turkey from early passage to full membership . |
| 52 | Both the agreements and the plans drawn up between the King of Scotia and the Normans at the start of the winter began to be implemented , and the camp at Scone became empty . |
| 53 | Oh yes I enjoyed it very much but erm we had American visitors around and we had one a Captain and I 'm afraid we all fell for him cos he seemed such a handsome man and he 'd been a hero in the war , and he was engaged to , then to the then president of America 's daughter , so they informed us but erm I do n't know whether it was the truth , that 's what they , they said but of course some of the , some of the things had to be cast , the bodies had to be cast and they were , they were I do n't know whether you 'd have heard of the Orritor |
| 54 | But in South Africa , because male dancers were scarce , every available man willing to go on stage and hold up one of the women had to be encouraged and enabled to do so ; consequently , even the most rudimentary beginners were taught partnering . |
| 55 | An examination of the parenting arrangements following loss of mother showed that indifference and a low level of control had characterised the childhood experiences of a number of the women found to be depressed . |
| 56 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 57 | One of the Cun seemed to be in an argument with a jackal-creature which the Doctor said was a ‘ Galk ’ . |
| 58 | ( 1 ) Where the holder of a licence under this Part of this Act subsequently ceases to be the manager of the canteen , the person for the time being in charge of the canteen may , during the period of 14 days from the date on which the holder of the licence ceased to be the manager , sell alcoholic liquor in the canteen as if that licence had been transferred to him . |
| 59 | The claims of the environmentalists had to be looked at again . |
| 60 | Hereto is appended an estimate of the cost of the works suggested to be constructed departmently by the Canal Company the total of which may roundly be put at £12,000 . |