Example sentences of "had been necessary for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the circumstances ( that is , of Jack 's plan to have his wife and mistress under one roof ) it had been necessary for Patrick to move , and Patrick , being distinctly better , had moved , or had been moved . |
| 2 | He had been best man at their wedding — a formidable pre-nuptial agreement had been necessary for that capitulation — and had carried out his duties with a mixture of incompetence , vulgarity and irreverence which , as she occasionally enjoyed telling Norman , had spoilt for her the memory of her big day . |
| 3 | But if it had been necessary for me to do so , I would have concluded that the whole loss should be borne by Union Discount . |
| 4 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
| 5 | When her father died it had been necessary for her to do some kind of work and the training in librarianship had seemed the most suitable . |