Example sentences of "had to be made [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Torah had to be made accessible in Greek both for religious service and for private reading .
2 Robert Lord 's basic story-line provided a marvellous portrait of an ordinary worker and a very telling ‘ explanation of the roots of political prejudice ’ but these details had to be made real on film .
3 The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic .
4 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 ’ .
5 In Europe the ravages of war had to be made good and then came the enlargement of universities , government institutes , and industrial establishments .
6 What had to be done was that motion pictures had to be made respectable .
7 It meant taking Weenie and Co. , who had to be made tidy and neat , so it was some time before their caravan set forth .
8 it had to be made clear that the Civil Rights Movement was not anti-constitutional .
9 I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round .
10 Secondly , applications had to be made direct to the appropriate Secretary of State who , if not available , had to sign at the earliest possible opportunity ( though they could be issued initially by a civil servant ) .
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