Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] had [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It held , for example , that Italy was in breach of its obligations under the Treaty when it required that researchers employed by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche had to be Italians because they were civil service posts . |
| 2 | The accused 's intention had to be considered to determine whether he wished to use it to inflict injury . |
| 3 | My dear mother 's optimism had to be heard to be believed . |
| 4 | The uproar in the middle of the night when Bernard Murphy rolled home fighting drunk from the seamen 's club had to be heard to be credited . |
| 5 | A FORMER Mayor of Prestatyn , Mark Garfield Jones , offered a £200 reward last night after his daughter 's horse had to be put down following a collision with a van which did not stop . |
| 6 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 7 | Chief executive officer Edwin Lake told the tourism and amenities committee that the Children 's Village had to be protected from the sea , wind and sand and a reinforced concrete wall along the full length of the north side was a basic element of the design . |
| 8 | A disadvantage of the tribute system was that each gang 's ore had to be kept separately from the others until dressed and sampled . |
| 9 | The field-worker 's legitimacy had to be proved continually and skilfully , and trust was gained as a result of a progressive series of negotiations . |
| 10 | Antoinette 's place had to be laid opposite her husband 's . |
| 11 | Some of Ferguson 's tries had to be seen to be believed . |
| 12 | Staff appropriate to Florey 's aims had to be recruited and grants to pay them obtained from outside bodies . |
| 13 | Mr. Jeffreys contended that on a fair reading of the subsection it can not have been the intention that every one of an owner 's rights had to be assumed by the alleged thief before an appropriation was proved and that essential ingredient of the offence of theft established . |
| 14 | A bad tendon strain in Aldaniti 's off-foreleg had to be fired , and he was on the sidelines for eighteen months . |
| 15 | There had been much insistence among Slovaks that the country 's name had to be hyphenated in order to make explicit the separate and equal identity of the two nations , whereas many Czechs felt that the issue was divisive and that the state 's title should be merely shortened by removing the word " Socialist " . |
| 16 | Tuesday night 's opening had to be cancelled and on Wednesday night the leading lady was ill . |
| 17 | Last year 's event had to be cancelled due to problems with the course , forcing organisers to switch to a new two-lap route mainly off the road . |
| 18 | Previously when someone 's age had to be formally determined it had to be done in the presence of a sheriff of the county and a ‘ jury ’ composed of local people who knew the person concerned . |
| 19 | With regard to blackmail the Criminal Law Revision Committee did not want a test that the accused 's belief had to be reasonable because such could be out of line with the rest of the 1968 Act , yet Feely and Ghosh do just that in relation to dishonesty falling outside of s.2(1) . |
| 20 | Requirements for aircraft had to be dealt with by the Air Officer Commanding Western Desert , and all David Stirling 's communications had to be routed via the LRDG , who ended up as piggy in the middle . |
| 21 | ( One of Jim 's sisters had to be rushed to hospital with a critical diabetic condition . ) |
| 22 | Mr Mason 's fountain had to be transferred to the centre of Bondgate and replaced by the Tubwell torrentor as featured in the inaugural Fountain of the Week . |
| 23 | The material deterioration in the company 's prospects had to be made public under Stock Exchange rules , and it was decided to issue the warning . |
| 24 | As a result , the plaintiff 's leg had to be amputated . |
| 25 | For Nathalie Sarraute , Proust 's psychologizing had to be refined and transformed in order to convey the mobility and fragmentation of consciousness . |
| 26 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 27 | Thus woman 's sphere had to be limited for the sake of the race . |
| 28 | Our research also told us that the Student 's Book had to be in colour , so we took out the pictures and began again — using two pictures instead of one wherever possible — so that we stay up to date with the latest modifications to the Interview , Paper 5 . |
| 29 | Arthur 's ale had to be served from a blend of several barrels . |
| 30 | The white man 's burden had to be carried on strong backs . |