Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law introduced on Oct. 7 had stipulated that any candidate for the presidency had to be supported by 50 mayors and 400 town councillors . |
| 2 | The radio section of this year 's selection process has been considerably expanded to recognise the contribution of regional stations and there will be a special award for the station judged to be the best in each of the four provinces . |
| 3 | Other uncontested stipulations were that any candidate for the CCD had to be " over 21 , a practising citizen and be elected in the election registry of Peru " . |
| 4 | To give you another example , the initial design for the Dalek had to be prepared for a Monday morning meeting . |
| 5 | That is to say , the acoustic evidence for the word seemed to be much weaker when the semantic evidence for it was stronger . |
| 6 | The control Store , containing up to a few thousand words , is set up initially with bit patterns representing the microprograms for the instruction set to be implemented . |
| 7 | The losses run up in the third quarter will seriously hit the aggregate figure for the whole of 1992 , with pre-tax profits for the year expected to be about 95 per cent down on the £528 million recorded in 1991 . |
| 8 | All candidates for the throne had to be recognized as Merovingians . |
| 9 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 10 | In 1983 about 500 candidates for the priesthood had to be turned away in Asia and Africa as there was no room for them in the seminaries and no money left . |
| 11 | It would also be necessary for the competency attained to be describable ; that is , the tests would be criterion- , not norm-referenced . |
| 12 | Fortune for the moment seemed to be favouring the French . |
| 13 | Well , volunteers for the diet seemed to be coming out of the woodwork ! |
| 14 | for the sides had to be shaped . |
| 15 | The man for the crisis proved to be Downton , who stayed with Gower till the end , which came when Botham declared on 302 for 6 ; they were helped by Marshall not being able to bowl , but it was still a fine piece of concentration of which Ken Barrington would have been proud . |
| 16 | The reason for the difference seemed to be that the DHSS paid for nursing home treatment in a number of instances : ‘ They took the pension and attendance allowance and the DHSS paid the rest . ’ |
| 17 | Preparations for the hunt seemed to be going well . |
| 18 | The only possible exception to the rule of fitting standard gear has been the masts : the die for the masts had to be bought from Proctor so that 11 could be built . |
| 19 | Barrier methods such as the sheath came to be used more , not less , by wives with husbands in the professional and inter-mediate class ( 34 and 32 per cent ) compared to skilled and unskilled manual ( 25–21 per cent ) . |
| 20 | Since those cases were decided there have been many scientific advances and it would seem that chances of establishing whether or not there are causal relationships between the act alleged to be negligent and the damage alleged to have been suffered as a consequence are better now than formerly . |
| 21 | It says that 340,000 people with two jobs are being double counted , and there is a discrepancy of one million between the numbers claimed to be in self-employment and those self-employed people paying national insurance . |
| 22 | Thucydides wanted to give a wholly reliable account of the wars between Athens and Sparta ; and this meant that unverified assumptions about the past had to be excluded . ’ |
| 23 | North of the churchyard itself lay the Old School Room , built in 1828 at.a cost of £127 8s. 4d. ; it served its purpose very adequately until the passing of the 1870 Education Act , at which time decisions about the future had to be made . |
| 24 | His control of the power through the throttles had to be accurate . |
| 25 | The man whom Sergeant Bird ushered in through the door seemed to be buckling at the knees , and his Adam 's apple jerked furiously in his throat as he swallowed time and again . |
| 26 | The crowd always wanted the challenger to win , something that did not happen too often , because I remember the timing of the rounds appeared to be fixed to the advantage of the resident boxer . |
| 27 | Schedule 1 includes references to certain specified sums paid out or received by Abbey or Wessex , some of the moneys said to be ‘ in respect of charges which were not due and/or were inflated . |
| 28 | The Audit Commission was established in 1982 to address this issue and has campaigned vigorously for the introduction of performance review considering this an appropriate response to many of the problems perceived to be afflicting local authorities . |
| 29 | Most of the others seemed to be in the process of renovation . |
| 30 | Foreign dependants of the Court continued to be appointed to important Forest wardenships — such as Amaury de St Amand , Steward of the Household 1233–40 , who was also warden of the Forest of Dean during the greater part of that time , and Peter Chaceporc , the able Poitevin Keeper of the Wardrobe 1241–54 , who was appointed to the same wardenship in May 1248 . |