Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could n't they see how it had to be nourished ? |
| 2 | Kānchho , Kalchu 's younger brother , and Śa kar would take him in the morning , and Kānchho would stay there with him — if that was how it had to be . |
| 3 | The past and the future were one , she explained hastily , and that was how it had to be . |
| 4 | ‘ Club before country was how it had to be for me because injury and suspension have left me with only 11 players for Arbroath 's league game with Brechin City on Saturday , ’ said McGrain . |
| 5 | She 's a very conceited woman , Pete the adulterous told me she was a very conceited woman and er Neil says I I I 'd have to talk to him to him about this , she could n't discuss anything with him she would lay down the law , that was how it had to be and I said no I said Gerry and I , I had no hesitation , as I said , in putting the boot in and Brenda and Dave take the same the attitude to children that you let them first of all when they 're small , you have to tell them no like you do not |
| 6 | Asked how it felt to be Thatcher 's heir apparent , November 1990 . |
| 7 | Surely this was how it felt to be dead — empty all through , and cold . |
| 8 | It was about time he learned how it felt to be on the receiving end for a change . |
| 9 | I do n't know how it came to be shown at the Carlton , East Ham , but one Sunday my parents took me to see The Sheep Has Five Legs starring the French comedian Fernandel . |
| 10 | The fascinating details of how it came to be are still waiting to be found . |
| 11 | Just how it came to be extinguished was something of a mystery , and even the Israelis who live in Ben Ami — the farming settlement that has been built on the site — had scarcely heard the name . |
| 12 | He told chairman Michael Croucher he had found the nearby new frame while he was walking along The Hollow ( RUPP 45 ) at Bramshott and was puzzled as to how it came to be lost . |
| 13 | A story has been passed down with the spoon to explain how it came to be repaired . |
| 14 | Subsidiary to that , though still important , are the issues of what it has to say and how it came to be : ‘ sources ’ and ‘ designs ’ once more , both things Tolkien disliked , but useful if not essential to a proper reading . |
| 15 | STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN Unfortunately more interesting than 19-year-old Matty Rich 's film — a slice-of-Brooklyn melodrama crusted with symbolism and piety — is the story of how it came to be made : ambitious kid from Brooklyn drops out of film school , blags some equipment and funds a film on the back of radio appeals . |
| 16 | I asked Maureen about this strange and spectacular bird , and she told me how it came to be in her care . |
| 17 | A Music Hall sling from 1890s , introduced by the Irish comedians O'Connor and Brady , had probably first popularised the word : How it came to be adopted by , and applied to , youthful street gangs is something of a mystery . |
| 18 | When questioned , Mr Bence said he had never seen the trophy cabinet in his life , and was at a loss to explain how it came to be in the director 's Portakabin . |
| 19 | The stuff of it , how it came to be , how it was shaped and turned and moved , still evades me . |
| 20 | ‘ I wondered how it came to be built here . ’ |
| 21 | Finally , we learn how the telescope has been used to track spacecraft — there is an exciting account of how it came to be the main receiving station for the first moonwalk . |
| 22 | How it came to be |
| 23 | I expect to read a full and objective description of what 's on the site now , together with a documented reconstruction of how it came to be like that . |
| 24 | The small arms ammunition has now been retrieved by army bomb disposal experts , but how it came to be buried there remains a mystery . |
| 25 | I do n't know how it came to be , whether it was the the French that really in invented it . |
| 26 | However it began to be clear that despite our good possession we were short on attacks . |
| 27 | The State of Kuwait , which became independent in 1961 when it ceased to be a British protectorate , is governed by the Amir ( currently Shaikh Jabir al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah ) , who is chosen by and from among the royal family , and who appoints the Council of Ministers . |
| 28 | Do not let anyone — pilots , the RAF or the CAA — fool themselves that CANP is anything other than a hastily improvised system put together after the collision of a Phantom and a Pawnee in 1974 , when it had to be shown that something was being done . |
| 29 | It was only when it began to be associated exclusively with women that gossip began its slippery slide into the gutter . |
| 30 | In this paradox , we see the essence of the heightened detestation of the new breed of Party ‘ functionaries ’ , the agents — along with the traditionally disliked State civil servants — of this bureaucratized control , and the popularity of the Führer , whose personal power was idealized and elevated to a plane where it seemed to be executed outside the realms of ‘ everyday life ’ . |