Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] had [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
| 2 | For Fabianism , the emergence of democracy which was taking place in the political sphere had to be accompanied by the spread of socialism in the economic sphere . |
| 3 | Thus , the political approach had to be changed . |
| 4 | All the feeding stuff and there were a pile of feeding stuff then for the hens were all and cattle were fed and all the feeding stuff had to be imported . |
| 5 | The tramping system had to be organised ( see below , p. 207 ) . |
| 6 | A gallon container a foot out of place would put everything off balance , so each time the wheelbarrow fell , the dislodged kit had to be re-adjusted . |
| 7 | The fixed categories of the character-based fiction of the nineteenth century had to be abandoned in favour of structures permitting fluidity and instability . |
| 8 | The government rejected this as being tantamount to handing over one-third of the country 's municipalities to the guerrillas , and insisted that the armed forces had to be present in every part of the national territory . |
| 9 | He was not mad about slide shows himself , it was a wet day , the rich contributors had to be helped in with their umbrellas ; he was sceptical that North could do anything arresting . |
| 10 | To meet the challenges of the European single market , he said , the Scottish economy had to be international in outlook , diverse and efficient . |
| 11 | They were given a share of the profits : in Kenyan conditions — that is to say , the conditions of neo-colonialism — the public service had to be paid on a quasi-prebendary basis . |
| 12 | The ball was , so to speak , back in the industrialists ' court — the cost of the public services had to be disproportionately born by private capital which resulted in a reduction in business profitability . |
| 13 | When this happened , the raw data had to be emended . |
| 14 | The job had one stipulation — the wooden floor had to be scrubbed completely once a week . |
| 15 | A spokesman said the top salaries had to be seen in the context of the company 's performance last year and its importance as a global business . |
| 16 | Rioting became common and the British Army had to be called in to replace the overstretched Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 17 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 18 | In 1960 the old church had to be re-slated at a cost of £400 and in 1960 also Mr J H Montgomery recorded some of the harvest services for the benefit of members unable to get to church because of age or illness . |
| 19 | Language was changed , the structure of society altered beyond recognition and of course the architecture of the old regime had to be replaced by one appropriate to the new collectivist order . |
| 20 | William Hughes and the Unitarian William Roscoe , following Granville Sharp 's argument in the 1770s , asserted the scriptural sanction of slave trading to have only particular application ; they tried to bolster scripture as a reliable instrument of antislavery revelation by insisting that Harris ' reliance on the Old Testament had to be modified or abrogated by the New Testament . |
| 21 | The message of the entire plan had to be put across : |
| 22 | When the batteries were spent ( after , perhaps 250 re-charges ) the entire drill had to be thrown away . |
| 23 | So many things in the standard approach had to be changed . |
| 24 | Inevitably , however , the teacher-training target had to be adjusted downwards as the DES successively announced cuts in teacher-training provision in England and Wales before , in July 1977 , it finally settled on 2,900 places . |
| 25 | But by 1985 the sad reality had to be faced that — so far as InterCity was concerned — the market had changed , probably for ever . |
| 26 | Dean Acheson informed various American ambassadors in late April 1949 that the Japanese government had to be given more authority so as to re-establish civilian government properly . |
| 27 | When a treaty was eventually arrived at , it should be succinct , generalised and relatively magnanimous ; the psychological impact of the presence of occupation forces on the Japanese people had to be countered through flexible policies including reduction of total numbers of both tactical and non-tactical forces . |
| 28 | It was a curious mixture of determined work , for many undergraduates had lost five years or more , and of equally certain enjoyment , for the lost years had to be made up in other ways too . |
| 29 | But obviously my plant to whack off hastily and then make the second copy had to be abandoned , because my dick would n't even begin to reach over the plastic strip between me and where the glass started when it was soft . |
| 30 | Quasi-judicial functions , it was thought , were best committed to politically responsible Ministers rather than to courts because ultimately the required decision had to be made on policy grounds . |