Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun] [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this the bureaucracy had to be a ‘ closed society within the state ’ , simply yet another closed and hierarchical corporation with its own particularistic interests . |
| 2 | For this the workers had to be brought together in factories . |
| 3 | Half the bar seemed to be indulgently waiting for her opinion . |
| 4 | In the case of small dogs , half the dose had to be put into each nostril , and with large dogs the full dose was put into one nostril . |
| 5 | Half the class had to be invalided home , and Clive 's name was still mud in Emilia-Romagna . |
| 6 | The drivers ' uncertainty was due in part to the vagaries of the train from Khartoum , on which half the town seemed to be waiting . |
| 7 | For one thing , it paid better than she could believe , and for another the work seemed to be something she could really get her teeth into . |
| 8 | Such a government had to be able to carry a programme of economies through the House of Commons : this immediately ruled out the possibility of a Labour minority government led by Henderson , as suggested by Moodie in an otherwise illuminating article . |
| 9 | Such a flow proved to be uncontrollable by either trade union or parliamentary action . |
| 10 | Although the principle seemed not unfair , the practicalities of introducing such a system proved to be complex , not least because for historic reasons unit costs vary very considerably between one institution and another . |
| 11 | It was the site where such a building had to be , if buildings there were at all . |
| 12 | The causes lying behind such a declaration had to be serious ( the denial of rights , the breaking of the feudal bond ) , and every attempt to resolve a possible conflict by negotiation had to be made . |
| 13 | The theme of thwarted conventional ambitions that was essential to both anomie and delinquent subculture theories implied that criminals and delinquents suffered from a ‘ gap ’ between their aspirations and expectations , and the existence of such a gap came to be taken as the measure of the validity of the theories . |
| 14 | Such an Order had to be laid before Parliament and was there debated on 6 December 1977 . |
| 15 | The proclamation under which the conviction had been obtained specified that in order to constitute an offence such an action had to be carried out ‘ without the authority of a competent Magistrate ’ . |
| 16 | They came like flies to honey , not the heedless junior element , either , but a knot of budding sophisticates in their teens , led by a tall , slim sixteen-year-old on whose walk , manner and style all the rest appeared to be modelling themselves . |
| 17 | In some inexplicable way , all the senses seemed to be heightened . |
| 18 | This heavy construction , which has good sound-insulating properties , provided an economic solution to the problem posed by the need to insert new floors in spite of the fact that all the beams had to be manhandled into position because there was no access for mechanical handling . |
| 19 | Initally all the cargo had to be manhandled off . |
| 20 | Coming from the lake , or down from the north , all the goods had to be unloaded because of the impassable barrier of the Rhine Falls , then taken to the waiting vessels on the other side . |
| 21 | The main problem was that all the furniture had to be scaled down to suit the smaller stature of the Japanese and to fit their smaller homes . |
| 22 | Nor did we have sinks and drains , so all the water had to be carried in and carried out again when it was dirty . |
| 23 | In fact , they asked for the practices and procedures of all the agencies involved to be thoroughly scrutinised . |
| 24 | Spectrum bias is unlikely to have influenced our results for two reasons : ( 1 ) almost all the asthmatics agreed to be studied ( only 6% refused endoscopy ) and ( 2 ) one quarter of the asthmatics did not require chronic bronchodilator therapy , indicating that not all the patients had severe asthma . |
| 25 | Limewashing began in October and all the houses had to be finished by the end of February , as many would then have the heat turned up to set their inmates into growth . |
| 26 | I had seen Cabinets which all the time seemed to be dealing with the day-to-day problems and there was never a real opportunity to deal with strategy , either from the point of view of the Government or the country . |
| 27 | All the cards seemed to be stacked against Aurangzeb , but he had one key advantage : the support of his sister Roshanara . |
| 28 | All the candidates had to be nominated with proposers and seconders and they all have election agents . ’ |
| 29 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 30 | Candid photography was possible but difficult at this time , so all the shots had to be set up . |