Example sentences of "[was/were] necessary [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel McMillan argued that nursery schools were necessary to compensate for the cultural deprivation suffered by working class children . |
| 2 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 3 | The then Minister for Home Affairs , Buta Singh , defended the extension against protests from opposition members saying that it was necessary to proceed with the panchayat ( local council ) system as a prelude to assembly elections in the state , and that the continued detention of some Sikh leaders was necessary to prevent them from causing further trouble in the region . |
| 4 | To achieve a more three-dimensional model of soil it was necessary to proceed beyond the catena concept that had been introduced into soil studies based on work in East Africa , and development depended upon close relation between soils and the landsurface . |
| 5 | In some cases it was necessary to return to the parental home even when parents were not wholly supportive , for lack of viable alternatives , as in the situation described by this respondent , |
| 6 | Yoshida 's attitude to communism was pragmatic : while he disliked communism as an ideology , it was necessary to deal with the world that existed . |
| 7 | In the early years of the regime it was necessary to rely on the ‘ retained cadres ’ from the Nationalist government because the working and peasant classes , though loyal politically , could not produce people of sufficient literacy to staff the bureaucracy . |
| 8 | Thus Sartre argues that it was necessary to choose between the break-up of the Revolution and its deviation . |
| 9 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 10 | It was thought that the kind of strong reliance on grammatical structuring used in HARPY was necessary to compensate for the generally poor level of acoustic-phonetic processing achieved during the DARPA project ( see Klatt 1977 ) . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it was necessary to think about the future . |
| 12 | The catering was so little used it was decided to suspend it and it was necessary to dig into the precious Henly legacy for repairs , wages , course upkeep and to off-set the catering losses . |
| 13 | Cole had emphasized the relationships with landsurfaces of different age and character , but to demonstrate exactly how ecological processes were manifested it was necessary to focus upon the interrelationships of all factors in the savanna ecological system and therefore the dynamic ecology was a feature of the University of McGill Rupununi Savanna Research project ( Hills , 1965 , 1974 ) and of work by Eden ( 1964 , 1974 ) . |
| 14 | Thus , to explain what was happening to cities it was necessary to look at the characteristics of cities . |
| 15 | He argues that in order to extract Britain 's oil reserves fast — a policy objective pursued dogmatically by all governments over the last fifteen years — it was necessary to depend upon the transnational oil companies . |
| 16 | It was necessary to work for the ‘ maximum co-ordination of efforts between the principled radical elements ’ and to win support from the NILP and the trade unions . |
| 17 | The appropriate court was usually the court of the diocese in which the deceased 's property happened to be ; if there was property in several dioceses , it was necessary to apply to the prerogative Court . |