Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] had to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mill was powered then by a steam engine , the coal for which had to be carried from the |
| 2 | The number of officially registered objectors had by now almost doubled , to over 20,000 , all of whom had to be entered on a database and then sent information . |
| 3 | Not all were as exotic as those with a succession of Miss Worlds , some of whom had to be nursed along ( with a few retakes ) as they struggled for appropriate poise and vocabulary . |
| 4 | Certain of the magistrates were nominated to a special inner group , some of whom had to be present if a session of the magistrates ' court was to be lawful . |
| 5 | Most of them had to be introduced to one another by the referee yet they still stuffed four past us . |
| 6 | 6 of them had to be transferred from the Aylesbury Young Offenders Institution when Judge Stephen Tumim 's prison inspection team found it was not secure enough to take them . |
| 7 | What happened that afternoon was the product of countless details , all of which had to be just right . |
| 8 | In the case of Sting he sees no conflict with his Green beliefs and the arrangement of a wedding bash which brought to Wiltshire 250 petrol-guzzling cars , security helicopters , a £20,000 Versace wedding dress flown from Italy , paper invitations , not to mention four dozen portable lavatories , the contents of which had to be emptied … well , it hardly bears thinking about where they were emptied . |
| 9 | This netting of his assets doubtless conceals the fact that , like any businessman , he in turn had extensive liabilities , making him the centre of a complex web of credit , the effects of which had to be reckoned with . |
| 10 | When the case first came before the Court of Appeal , the court , finding no assistance in the text of the Convention itself , held in effect that the proceedings had to be regarded as in a ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ both under the law of the requesting country , which must necessarily be the starting-point , and that of England , the courts of which had to be satisfied that the request did fall within the terms of the Act . |
| 11 | The cost of this story was very high , not least for the time , materials and manpower needed to build the ‘ giant ’ sets and props ( the sink , the telephone , the briefcase , the lab bench , etc. ) , all of which had to be robust enough for the regular cast to clamber around . |
| 12 | In every house in the Rante , as well as at every animist site throughout the valley , numerous puzzling little rituals were taking place — all of which had to be successfully completed , apparently , before the final " star-launching " could proceed . |
| 13 | Clearly more than one period of fortification is to be implied , with the likelihood that a masonry wall was added to the front of an existing bank , the contemporary ditch of which had to be solidly filled in order to carry its foundations ; a date for the bank of not earlier than c . |
| 14 | He had reaffirmed , he said , Pakistan 's long-established position that Kashmir was a disputed territory , the future of which had to be decided by a free plebiscite under UN supervision . |
| 15 | When there was the gas explosion at Guthrie Street we lost more than 100 panes of glass , all of which had to be replaced as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 16 | As a result much of it had to be stored in a continuously digesting system , so a large torso was needed . |
| 17 | Even the height of it had to be lowered by two storeys when Ceauşescu decided thirteen storeys would be quite enough ( unlike Elena he was not superstitious ) , and no one pointed out that they were already on the fifteenth floor . |
| 18 | Over £60,000 was in the king 's Treasury in November 1326 , but some of this was spent paying off the force of Hainault mercenaries which Isabella had recruited for her invasion in 1326 ; some of it was simply appropriated by Mortimer and Isabella for their personal use , and some of it had to be used to finance the war against the Scots which was renewed in the summer of 1327 . |
| 19 | ‘ Some of it had to be my fault . |
| 20 | In 1779 the correspondence relating to the Family Compact agreement of 1761 with Spain could not be found there , so that copies of it had to be obtained from Madrid , though the comte de Vergennes , as foreign minister in 1774 – 87 , seems to have made efforts to achieve greater efficiency . |
| 21 | This Melanie of his had to be a complete idiot to prefer someone else . |
| 22 | In other words , Mendel 's theory was a ‘ model ’ of what had to be there to generate the observed behaviour . |
| 23 | It mingled , clashed with the equally cold sense of duty , the detached knowledge of what had to be done . |
| 24 | It turned out to be Pion , holding a tray of what had to be … fruit , Masklin decided . |
| 25 | Instead , she 'd become a member of what had to be a rather exclusive club . |
| 26 | ‘ When you ask these people ‘ What were the most important factors in your success ? ’ , they all say the main aspects were the importance of teamworking between all contributors , the clear identification of what had to be achieved for success . |
| 27 | The basis of Pippin 's support was narrow , but its geography meant that Louis 's autumn campaign against him had to be fought in difficult terrain : this part of Aquitaine was a region of hills and crags , deeply-wooded , and crossed by great rivers that impeded north-south communications . |
| 28 | Kids like us had to be tough in those days . |
| 29 | In addition , this 1678 Act ‘ for lessening the importation of Linnen from beyond the Seas , and the encouragement of the Woollen and Paper Manufacturers of the Kingdome ’ further instructed that the curate of every parish keep a register , provided at the expense of the parish , into which had to be entered all burials together with the affidavits taken by the justice of the peace , mayor , ‘ or such like chief officer ’ in the parish or , ‘ if there be no officer , then by any curate within the county where the corpse was buried ( except him in whose parish the corpse was buried ) , who must administer the oath , and set his hand gratis ’ . |
| 30 | The black velvet canopy hung above it had to be renewed . |