Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the distance from where the tank now sat blocking the way at the head of the stairs , and where it had to be , at the end of the landing , was too great for them to shift it . |
| 2 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 3 | Where it had to be the right name . |
| 4 | It was the kestrel circling the dome of Leeds Town Hall , where it proved to be nesting , that gave the game away . |
| 5 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 6 | The machinery of employer reaction may have been rustier than it seemed to be . |
| 7 | It is true that the carefully authentic material has to be explained more fully than it had to be for readers of Marryat 's day , who could be supposed to possess a modicum of previous knowledge of naval affairs . |
| 8 | I had to pay to have them work as fast as they did , only I did n't want my friend 's grave marked with just a cross in the sand for any longer than it had to be . |
| 9 | There should have been light from above and below , but in fact there was almost none , and it was partly because of that , and because it was also rather colder than it had to be , that Quiss had set off something like an hour before to find some of the castle 's attendants . |
| 10 | Conflicting demands and timescales also made the project more difficult than it needed to be . |
| 11 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 12 | Partisan viewers tended to see television as being less favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other viewers . |
| 13 | At the same time , partisan readers tended to claim that their newspaper was more favourable to their own party than it appeared to be in the eyes of other readers . |
| 14 | However , there has been a considerable improvement in that club 's cash flow and its level of indebtedness is better supported than it appeared to be at the time of last year 's review . |
| 15 | However , John Merrill has qualified this assessment by pointing out that Rhee himself encouraged many independents to stand because of the weakness of his own political organisation ; while a reverse for Rhee , his position after the election was rather stronger than it appeared to be . |
| 16 | It may seem also that each vassal could only have one lord : otherwise the bond would be less personal than it purported to be , and the vassal might be involved in a serious conflict of loyalty . |
| 17 | Across the range , the car is now a far quieter place than it issued to be , with better sound-proofing , new carpeting and a smarter roof lining . |
| 18 | Her home number was not listed in the directory so it had to be the stage door . |
| 19 | The authorities decided it was dangerous so it had to be knocked down . |
| 20 | As it happened , not everyone was willing to kowtow to this woolly Act , so it had to be strengthened in 1678 by another , this time imposing a fine on all defaulters . |
| 21 | ‘ So it had to be someone young and supple and only Rachel fitted that description . |
| 22 | The system poisoned people , said Hoyland , so it had to be destroyed . |
| 23 | He could have been anyone but he was in the right place : on his own bed in his own house in Mouncy Street , so it had to be him . |
| 24 | The political implications of this discovery were far-reaching so it needed to be checked carefully . |
| 25 | Of course , these statistics are crude , but they strongly suggest a world in which war may often have seemed prohibitively expensive , especially once it came to be realised that Æthelred 's military operations tended to be unsuccessful . |
| 26 | It was to last throughout the 1540s , and then go into abeyance , lying dormant — despite Mary Queen of Scots ' burning awareness of her position as Elizabeth 's heir presumptive — until it had to be faced again , when James VI succeeded to the English throne in 1603 . |
| 27 | Six to eight men hauled the Durham wagon round the streets — they said it was easier to move than it looked , as once it was rolling it was not difficult until it had to be stopped ! |
| 28 | For instance , Orchin developed a severe stomach ulcer after he was charged which became increasingly worse during the years on bail until it had to be treated by major surgery . |
| 29 | But he may have waited until it began to be dusk . |
| 30 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |