Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it was no easy task , and heavy equipment had to be manhandled for about a mile from the nearest road . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was such disruption at the entrance to Olympia that the start of the meeting had to be delayed for half an hour . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And today a spider expert claimed the creature had to be caught for the sake of other shoppers . |
| 12 | The crisis had wider effects , and the old techniques of social control had to be revised for rural England . |
| 13 | Some control had to be introduced for pedestrianisation to work . |
| 14 | His idea was simple : seats on Skytrain were not bookable in advance , they had to be bought on the day of travel in New York , London , or later San Francisco , and food on the flight had to be paid for . |
| 15 | If investment in public education was a necessary political and humanitarian response to the problems of poverty and underprivilege , if it was an appropriate means of fostering and maintaining religious adherence , and if it was calculated to equip young people with the skills demanded by a changing industrial society , then a strategy had to be found for ensuring that value was obtained for the funds invested . |
| 16 | It was a pity that such a disagreeable man had to be thanked for this . |
| 17 | Storage space had to be found for this unusually large collection of books which arrived in batches over a period of weeks . |
| 18 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 19 | Three days later — the last Saturday before Christmas — Regent Street and stretches of the Charing Cross Road had to be evacuated for nearly two hours following bomb scares , and Hatchards and Dillons in Piccadilly were also forced to shut for up to four hours on Saturday . |
| 20 | Thus woman 's sphere had to be limited for the sake of the race . |
| 21 | Before the dredged dock and diesel hydraulic lift was installed a crane had to be hired for each lift out of , and each life back into , the water , at considerable expense . |
| 22 | Now that the time had come for the depleted garrison to shrink back inside the new fortifications , accommodation had to be found for the ladies displaced from Dr Dunstaple 's house . |
| 23 | In addition , their tenancy had to be paid for , fuel , clothes and thread provided . |
| 24 | Well , there was the battle of Jenkins ' ear , in which some eastern lot had to be sorted for mutilating the head of the unfortunate Jenkins in the same way as the Pakistanis modify cricket balls . |
| 25 | Travel in the UK was unlimited though a case had to be made for every European exhibition other than the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta , and most trips to the United States had to be funded privately or tied in with a conference or some other event that would cover the cost of the trip . |
| 26 | But defending solicitor , Nic Parry , said that the court should not allow the ‘ law of the jungle of Holywell ’ to rule and if the case had to be adjourned for reports , then Catherwood , who admitted assault , should be allowed home . |
| 27 | But defending solicitor , Nic Parry , said that the court should not allow the ‘ law of the jungle of Holywell ’ to rule and if the case had to be adjourned for reports , then Catherwood , who admitted assault , should be allowed home . |
| 28 | When , on 25 March 1859 , the tsar announced the principles on which Russian local government was to be based in the future , he acknowledged that provision had to be made for involving the public . |
| 29 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 30 | Although evil could not be attributed to Ahura Mazdah , its existence had to be accounted for , and Zarathustra explained it in terms of free will . |