Example sentences of "had [adv] [prep] be [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 Anyone going beyond silent forms of disaffection had still to be prepared for the worst from the servants and supporters of a regime now in extremis .
2 Buyers had still to be found for the other two shipyards .
3 Due to the continuing grave security situation in Transcaucasia dates had still to be set for local soviet and republican Supreme Soviet elections in Azerbaijan .
4 A lawyer , Jorge Cartagena , who had represented some of the Sendero leaders , claimed that more than 150 people had still to be accounted for .
5 Dory had already begun his motor-engineering apprenticeship , but Oscar and the young Julian , like Reggie , had still to be provided for .
6 This first " strand " of the talks took place at the Stormont parliament building outside Belfast ; a venue had yet to be agreed for subsequent " strands " involving the Irish ( Dublin ) government [ see pp. 38111-12 ] .
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