Example sentences of "and [noun] had to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financing such payments ( which frequently would take the form of annuity payments by the firm out of its profits or an annuity contract purchased by the firm ) was never easy and reliance had to be placed on incoming partners ' immediate capital contributions . |
| 2 | The hothouse flowers gardenia and stephanotis had to be coaxed and nurtured into flowering for the posies and the bridegroom 's buttonhole . |
| 3 | The thirty-six-patch leather ball of those days was heavy , and headers had to be strictly from the forehead . |
| 4 | In some cases they could be tried only by their own national courts and cases had to be remitted to Smyrna or Ankara or wherever it was . |
| 5 | Thus in 1779 , when it was desired to refer to Choiseul 's despatches relating to the Family Compact of 1761 , they could not be found and copies had to be obtained from Madrid . |
| 6 | As they were demolished , more refined and juster modes of recruitment , selection and assessment had to be developed . |
| 7 | Apparently in deference to The Builder 's comments , the submission date was extended and designs had to be inscribed with a motto and delivered to Westminster Hall on or before 20th March , 1857 . |
| 8 | As the tracks were not completed at West Croydon , such transfers proved rather difficult and cars had to be moved at night , using temporary rails to bridge the gap at the top of Tamworth Road . |
| 9 | Ricky and Alejandro had to be dragged away from the horses to a lunch laid out on a blue-and-white checked tablecloth under the gum trees . |
| 10 | The human losses mounted rapidly , and the extension of recruitment to those just eighteen years old and those already forty-five extended the worries about loved ones at the Front into almost every family , while at home their losses to farming and industry had to be made good , as far as possible , with more prisoners-of-war and ‘ foreign workers ’ . |
| 11 | That chimney turned out to be the only delicate part of the building and scaffolding had to be erected so that it could be rebuilt . |
| 12 | Between the Wars the cars were open at first , and drivers had to be well-clad in oilskins to avoid the cascade of water which poured on to them from the canopy of the open-fronted trams . |
| 13 | Lucy had just made tea and was boiling the kettle again for another cup ; by now supplies of milk and sugar were exhausted and tea had to be drunk without either . |
| 14 | The NRA 's chief scientist , Jan Pentreath , said that heavy metals and pesticides had to be controlled more effectively because of their toxic effect on the marine environment . |
| 15 | This overlapped to a considerable degree the Roman bath concept and adaptations had to be made in the Imperial Roman period . |
| 16 | More accommodation had to be packaged into smaller shapes , air flows had to be optimised , and weights had to be reduced . |
| 17 | It was then time for all other mechanical parts to be cleaned , checked for wear , remade where needed and reassembled , which turned out to be a long job as some parts like the track rod ends , king pins and bushes had to be made anew . |
| 18 | Public scepticism and opposition had to be overcome before the system could function effectively , he said . |
| 19 | As John Hamilton said , ‘ It was imperative to estimate extremely accurately as the materials and labour had to be quantified in the original bid . |
| 20 | Canoes and gear had to be carried one third of a mile beyond the falls . |
| 21 | At the station barriers , barricades and pens had to be constructed to separate ‘ up ’ from ‘ down ’ passengers and avoid crushing and injury . |
| 22 | Since the citadel 's walls had been razed in I 181 , ramparts of earth , stone and wood had to be erected from the fabric of a number of churches which were hastily demolished for the purpose . |
| 23 | The Holy Roman Emperor , the shah of Persia and the sultan in Constantinople were honoured with large sheets ( the fact that two of the three were non-European illustrates how large a role Asia still played in Russian foreign policy ) , while the kings of Sweden , Poland , England and Denmark had to be content with smaller ones . |
| 24 | Alongside the development of full-time courses there had to be provision for the part-time student and in consequence suitable curricula and syllabuses had to be devised . |
| 25 | Security was tighter here than it had been in the Union building , and Reynolds had to be signed in by Diane before he could be issued with a visitor 's pass . |
| 26 | If it is warranted it might be necessary to put some limit on the amount which can be shifted during excavation procedures ’ , with Dr Nowlan saying the line between prospecting and mining had to be drawn somewhere . |
| 27 | But the Cold War was fundamentally one of history 's wars of religion , and there were those who realized that the struggle to preserve American Ideals from the ideas of Marx and Lenin had to be conducted on a religious or moral plane . |
| 28 | Steel sand channels for getting out of soft ground , water containers , jerrycans , spare drums of Vickers ammunition , camouflage nets and the crew 's personal kit and weapons had to be stowed . |
| 29 | The waiting area had been full and in all twenty eight staff and outpatients had to be treated for the effects of gas . |
| 30 | The drummer lashed out at Tom and caught him a glancing blow on the jaw and Tom had to be held back by Ollie to prevent him retaliating . |