Example sentences of "had [adv] be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the IMF 's suggestion , the government was to consider introducing burley as a cash crop for small farmers ; production had hitherto been restricted to commercial estates . |
| 2 | The nuclear assets and liabilities of the former nationalized Scottish electricity boards had already been transferred to Scottish Nuclear which , as with the English nuclear power industry , remained wholly government-owned . |
| 3 | Eva had already been promoted to major before the usual time . |
| 4 | For the Japanese no such decision was necessary because their home market had always been used to small cars . |
| 5 | It was here , too , that broader links were formed with other kinds of social deviance which had similarly been reduced to technical problems . |
| 6 | While the Romans are described as being tributary , it seems that the lands which had originally been granted to free-born Franks had been exempt from tax , and that the Franks subsequently assumed that any lands which they came to hold were similarly exempt . |
| 7 | The parent figures as a group showed gross excesses of psychiatric disturbance , physical illness and disability , and criminality , and the abusing parent had often been subjected to physical or mental abuse or neglect in their own childhood . |
| 8 | Departmental copies had frequently been lent to outside researchers directly , rather than through the main library , which in fact operates a ‘ no external loans ’ policy in respect of theses . |
| 9 | At a further press conference on Jan. 19 the opposition parties produced Maj. József Vegvari , an officer in the State Security Service who identified himself as the source of the leaked information , who alleged that reports compiled as a result of the surveillance operation had regularly been passed to senior HSP members and discussed at meetings of the Council of Ministers . |
| 10 | The head of the judiciary , Ayatollah Mohammed Ali Yazdi , at Friday prayers on March 20 mentioned the unprecedented access that ICRC delegates had recently been given to Iranian prisons , and said that the delegates should be replaced by a more competent team because they had given their " legal work … a political hue " . |
| 11 | The appearance of the locomotive was a surprise as it had recently been transferred to Kentish Town to work Midland Express trains out of St. Pancras . |
| 12 | In Grampian all psychiatric patient contacts since 1963 are notified to the Grampian psychiatric case register , search of the register found no outpatient with presenile Alzheimer 's disease who had never been admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 13 | Of the 89 records we scrutinised , only three were of patients with probable Alzheimer 's disease who had never been admitted to psychiatric hospital . |