Example sentences of "[noun sg] had to be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion had to be integrated with its surrounding society , not in a subservient position , but forming the vital heart of the culture . |
| 2 | The women on the part-time farms were often the only people around during the short winter days so all outside stock had to be attended to by them . |
| 3 | Anything like the commotion that ensued , the hurricane deck and one of the steamer 's boats which was hung aloft broke its range so far , but some ladies who had got settled on that side had to be led down stairs dripping wet . |
| 4 | Almost all politicians thought Giuliano Amato 's scandal-battered four-party coalition had to be replaced by a broader-based one . |
| 5 | The English politicians and Whitehall civil servants sent to govern Northern Ireland were quick to grasp that Provisional IRA violence had to be contained by physical force or their administration would collapse in chaos with probably some of their own number murdered in the process . |
| 6 | The uproar in the middle of the night when Bernard Murphy rolled home fighting drunk from the seamen 's club had to be heard to be credited . |
| 7 | The first great series of races , and forerunner to Grands Prix , was the Gordon Bennett series , introduced in 1900 and it was a real test of a manufacturer 's skills , as the rules stipulated that all parts of each competing car had to be manufactured in its country of origin . |
| 8 | Since the tracks were not completed into Croydon , a car had to be taken by lorry to Wallington and off-loaded onto the track there ’ . |
| 9 | The company had insisted the last 88 job cuts in a 2,200 redundancy programme had to be found before yesterday 's deadline . |
| 10 | However , despite the ingenuity of Shklovsky 's efforts , it became clear that the differential principle behind poetry could not be very extensively or very effectively applied to prose , and the functional opposition had to be constructed on rather different lines . |
| 11 | My dear mother 's optimism had to be heard to be believed . |
| 12 | Right after the explosion , on January 8th , the prime minister said the bomber had to be found within two weeks . |
| 13 | Lucy had just made tea and was boiling the kettle again for another cup ; by now supplies of milk and sugar were exhausted and tea had to be drunk without either . |
| 14 | The sin-offering had to be accompanied by confession , and , where possible , a genuine attempt to put things right ( Leviticus 5:5 ; Numbers 5:7 ) . |
| 15 | Take the value of loyalty , loyalty that is being milked as if the national milk quota had to be filled by the Banks . |
| 16 | The priest had to be denounced by his parishioners ; many with concubines would have escaped challenge . |
| 17 | His murder had to be linked to Tatyana 's suicide , the poisoning of her son and the betrayal of the father . |
| 18 | The Liberal Democrat leader said the result had to be judged in the context of the party 's six per cent standing in the opinion polls two years ago , following the Liberal/SDP merger . |
| 19 | The Liberal Democrat leader said the result had to be judged in the context of the party 's six per cent standing in the opinion polls two years ago , following the Liberal/SDP merger . |
| 20 | The steel tape had to be cut with wire-cutters , then soldered , and then it had to be ‘ tempered ’ before it could run through the machine — which it did with a loud clang ! |
| 21 | But weight had to be given to the fact that this was a working wife with a recognised expertise in the managing of hotels . |
| 22 | St John the Baptist had to be preserved at all costs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was unfortunate when calls coincided and an ambulance had to be summoned from Barnard Castle , Bishop Auckland or Darlington , but this was bound to happen occasionally . |
| 25 | It had to do something , because uncertainty had to be brought to an end ; but only enlightened bureaucrats at the centre could cut through the diversity of opinion in the provinces . |
| 26 | First of all ‘ society ’ , as distinct from the State , had to be isolated and analysed , and secondly an attempt had to be made at understanding the evolution of society , since only then would it be possible to understand under what circumstances the State evolved and what its historical significance was . |
| 27 | It is possible that the writers may have decided , in each case , that the rule had to be broken in order to help the reader follow the sentence . |
| 28 | As John Hamilton said , ‘ It was imperative to estimate extremely accurately as the materials and labour had to be quantified in the original bid . |
| 29 | Whenever possible laser and radiotherapy were performed on an outpatient basis although many patients came from long distances so radiotherapy had to be given as an inpatient . |
| 30 | It is however impossible to believe that among these — bearing in mind that each applicant had to be sponsored by some reputable person — there were , as some claimed , barbers , man-milliners , tailors , shoemakers , mercers , mutton pie men , rat catchers , razor-strop makers , razor grinders , a druggist 's porter , insolvent debtors , and in general , the out-at-elbow fraternity . |