Example sentences of "of [noun sg] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , the bar had closed and the staff had long since departed so the celebration pint of bitter had to be put on ice for another day . |
| 2 | This of course had to be monitored and accountable a as it is at present in the Southern region where we can already see the benefits . |
| 3 | Right , the arch braces of course had to be put in because they were if you look at it you 'll see that they were actually sawn off . |
| 4 | The revolutionary had to spread , methods of teaching had to be discovered — Ponce left no record of his technique — and teachers found . |
| 5 | Its status in this respect as the successor of Latin had by then already been developing for generations . |
| 6 | In the twelfth century , when the issue of coin had in many areas ceased to be a royal prerogative , this sort of charge was known as seigniorage — a valuable perquisite of controlling a mint . |
| 7 | To administer and collect income tax a new arm of administration had to be created comprising experts , officials and clerks : an " army " which in terms of its efficiency and rapacity came to be the equal of the long-esteemed Excise . |
| 8 | The problem of succession had by no means been solved , and certainly not in a way that could be used as a precedent for the future . |
| 9 | The necessary appearance of friendship had to be maintained at all times , and patronage continued to flow in the direction of the town of Perth from which the unfortunate Mr. Robinson came . |
| 10 | Many simply went in and out of the factory without showing any emotion at all , relieved that weeks of uncertainty had at last come to an end . |
| 11 | The needs of war taxation in the fourteenth century , and the contribution which the custom on wool made to this , had led to the growth of a system whereby sales of wool had to be made through a staple town , sometimes in England and sometimes abroad . |
| 12 | Lacking instinctive predispositions to the latter , the change of basic mode of subsistence had to be traumatic , and so it was . |
| 13 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 14 | A frontier of skill had to be defended against dilution by the unskilled , including large numbers of women . |
| 15 | Standards of equipment had to be ‘ state of art ’ and accommodation in line with the requirements of today 's operating conditions . |
| 16 | As the state apparatus of the Soviet Union grew under Stalin rather than withered away , further justification for the expansion of bureaucracy had to be sought . |
| 17 | Two of them favoured refugees ; their conditions of work had to be at least as good as those offered to British workers , and their employers had to provide real training as opposed to handing out menial jobs to what was essentially cheap labour . |
| 18 | Whether any particular part of that evidence was of assistance had to be a question of fact . |
| 19 | Experienced and ‘ honoured ’ teachers of dance had to be told that their courses could not be approved . |
| 20 | Military stores , every musketeer had to have at least two metres of match which was a fairly thick cord , which was used to ignite his musket , and if you start thinking about how many musketeers there were around in Oxford , a whole lot of match had to be stored . |
| 21 | As a result of the violent suppression of protests in Berlin on Oct. 7-8 , 1998 , a commission of inquiry had by March 9 , 1990 , brought charges against 165 people for wrongful imprisonment , deliberate bodily harm or insult . |
| 22 | The pilot study , which resembled the main survey as closely as possible , revealed that the questions , covering letter and coding frame presented no difficulties , but that several nurses did not own rulers for measuring ulcers ; and that inducements to respond , effective reminders , and problems of distribution had to be considered if a high response rate was to be achieved . |
| 23 | But a commission appointed in June 1246 found that a number of foresters of fee had in fact disposed of all or part of the lands they held by service of keeping their forest bailiwicks . |
| 24 | Roads that carried any considerable amount of through-traffic had to be wide enough , and could be wide enough in unenclosed country , to allow of detours around the impassable stretches that developed in unsurfaced roads by mid-winter . |
| 25 | In Europe the ravages of war had to be made good and then came the enlargement of universities , government institutes , and industrial establishments . |
| 26 | The free-for-all of war had to be curtailed . |
| 27 | The remaining costs of war had to be met from the surplus on the ordinary account and the balance left by Henry VII . |
| 28 | The EAT said that where there were sound business reasons for reorganisation , then the question of reasonableness had to be looked at in the context of a reorganisation and not solely in the context of the offer of new terms and conditions . |
| 29 | To make the poor " sober , industrious and obedient " , asserted William Temple in 1739 , the means of idleness had to be removed , and that was high wages . |
| 30 | A window and a section of wall had to be removed to take out the body and twenty men were needed to lower the coffin into his grave in St. Martin 's Churchyard , where his tombstone states ‘ in personal greatness [ he ] had no competitor ’ . |