Example sentences of "had to [be] [vb pp] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time existing children of eleven to fourteen had to be assessed for their placing in secondary education . |
| 2 | The whole ritual took most of them half an hour though there were always a few that gossiped so much they had to be nagged by their Head Girl . |
| 3 | The unions , who were the beneficiaries of these monopolies , were accomplices to the most scandalous inefficiencies , and had to be stripped of their power . |
| 4 | The monkeys had to be deprived of their regular food and accustomed to the peanuts for weeks before they would take them with any readiness , let alone treat the nuts as rewards for appropriate behaviour . |
| 5 | E. W. Lovegrove in an essay on the churches of Stamford in 1908 says that St. John 's and St. Martin 's were in so ruinous a state that completely new Perpendicular style buildings had to be erected on their site . |
| 6 | Councils were reported as being reluctant to participate partly because grants had to be funded from their existing budgets . |
| 7 | At or about that time Rostern contained four who had to be moved from their holdings . |
| 8 | And though some knights might be supplied free by feudal service , household ones had to be maintained by their lords , mercenary ones needed pay , and those with money-fiefs constituted a regular charge on the treasury . |
| 9 | Elderly people had to be rescued from their homes as ‘ a tidal wave of water ’ hit Lydney . |
| 10 | When the party was over , all but the very young , who had to be confined to their cages for the night , would find their way back into the forest . |
| 11 | Danny and Teddy had to be evacuated with their school and Bridie had found lodgings as near as possible to where they were going for herself and Monica and Michael . |
| 12 | DAUGHTERS of the rich and famous had to be evacuated from their boarding school yesterday after the headmistress discovered it was to be the site of a massive rave party . |
| 13 | Eventually the goods had to be returned to their shelves and Pete departed empty-handed , with a muttered quotation from Ezra Pound , or some other poetic shyster who used four letter words . |
| 14 | The coroners court heard that all three … grandmother , mother and daughter … had to be identified by their fingerprints . |
| 15 | The Hurricanes had to be shorn of their wings to get through the tunnel but the Fulmars went through with wings folded . |
| 16 | The chalets on the lower ground nearest the beach were liable to flood and more than once young children had to be lifted from their beds in the middle of the night . |
| 17 | The companies had to be paid in their own currencies , at a much less favourable exchange rate than last year . |
| 18 | People who could live through poisonings , like Rasputin , had to be respected for their vital force . |
| 19 | Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes . |
| 20 | I wrote to Fender at the Arbiter Group PLC enclosing a blank cheque and requesting a lead and an instruction booklet , but received a short note by return informing us that leads had to be purchased through their dealer network and instruction booklets were not supplied with this guitar . |
| 21 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 22 | Mrs Castle 's contribution to this cornucopia of political wisdom and strategic insight was that policies had to be put in their philosophical context to win consent . |
| 23 | Senators who entertained thoughts of becoming effective members were obliged to serve a lengthy period of apprenticeship ; they had to be dedicated to their work as senators ; they were also expected to specialize and , in turn , to respect the specialization of others . |
| 24 | Large quantities of Western insecticides as well as elaborate pest-proof bedding had to be transported for their regular journeys into the Dark Continent . |