Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [prep] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When tankers were first allowed into the Lagoon channels had to be deepened for them , bringing more water into the Lagoon . |
| 2 | Suitable recipients had to be found for the money raised . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Once requisitioned , vessels originally built for commercial purposes had to be adapted for military ones . |
| 5 | Films had to be delayed for shortage of money , and some cheques bounced . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The waiting area had been full and in all twenty eight staff and outpatients had to be treated for the effects of gas . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Lack of shelter meant that all cattle had to be housed for 7 to 8 months . |
| 11 | New officers had to be appointed for the new objective of woodland management for timber production . |
| 12 | Dates had to be obtained for many of the sites before the historical sequence would become clearer . |
| 13 | Windows were shattered over a wide area and a number of persons had to be treated for injuries from flying glass and shock . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | New jeeps had to be modified for desert travel , a vast amount of stores had to be sorted out and the new recruits had to be given at least some elementary training . |
| 17 | Station staff called the police , but the fighting became fiercer and reinforcements had to be sent for . |
| 18 | It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals . |
| 19 | This aided the addition of the extension and although there were times when temporary arrangements had to be made for stairs and counter , the library stayed open almost completely through the alterations . |
| 20 | In addition , rooms had to be provided for staff of the Mineral Assessment Unit which started work in Scotland in 1974 . |
| 21 | Unfortunately the strength of these aluminous porcelains was only sufficient to allow the system to be used at the front of the mouth and less aesthetic materials had to be used for molar teeth . |
| 22 | Looking at the total expenditure and the economic projections , ministers decided broadly and in a preliminary way what limits had to be set for spending in the next financial year ( then about nine months away ) . |
| 23 | Spaces had to be left for some animals to be added as and when I found them . |
| 24 | That is , every word in the million-word corpus was assigned a tag indicating its grammatical category , and complex computer programs had to be written for this purpose . |
| 25 | Subsequent or alternative drinks had to be paid for at saloon-bar prices , so Clive managed to turn a profit on the evening . |
| 26 | These friendships had to be made for without them the project would have fallen apart . |
| 27 | It was delayed because extra carriages had to be found for the unexpectedly large number of emigres . |
| 28 | The pattern caused problems , in that the circumstances which might trigger off renewed fighting were unpredictable ; yet the moment an opportunity offered , princes had to be prepared for invading their enemies ; there was no time for lengthy preparation . |
| 29 | Once at sea level , smooth soapstone slabs had to be traversed for some distance to reach the cliff . |
| 30 | To make it as realistic as possible , more than 200 extras had to be employed for the two-day shoot . |