Example sentences of "was [conj] [noun] had [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arnie did n't think that big was beautiful he believed small was secure-and Crocus had to be secure ; the blowback potential was massive . |
| 2 | The Church throughout the world received orders and instructions which it obeyed willingly enough , though sometimes it regretted that there were no arrangements for dialogue and that it had not been invited to collaborate ; the result was that unity had to be lived out in passive acceptance rather than celebrated in fraternity ( Pensiamo al Concilio 9 ; see Hebblethwaite , 1984 , p. 409 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The result was that text-books had to be rewritten . |
| 5 | Another reason was that people had to be seen to be playing the management game . |
| 6 | His message was that societies had to be understood in terms of their economic structures , and in particular their social relations of production and the conflicts between the different economic classes which exist as a result of those relations . |