Example sentences of "had [prep] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals . |
| 2 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 3 | Travel in the UK was unlimited though a case had to be made for every European exhibition other than the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta , and most trips to the United States had to be funded privately or tied in with a conference or some other event that would cover the cost of the trip . |
| 4 | This aided the addition of the extension and although there were times when temporary arrangements had to be made for stairs and counter , the library stayed open almost completely through the alterations . |
| 5 | When , on 25 March 1859 , the tsar announced the principles on which Russian local government was to be based in the future , he acknowledged that provision had to be made for involving the public . |
| 6 | These friendships had to be made for without them the project would have fallen apart . |
| 7 | There was a range of er forges and I I car i o Everything had to be cleared for when Camel Lairds finished with it . |
| 8 | At the same time existing children of eleven to fourteen had to be assessed for their placing in secondary education . |
| 9 | New officers had to be appointed for the new objective of woodland management for timber production . |
| 10 | Sarah was watching the chimneysweeps with a rapt expression , and holding the hands of two small boys , while one a bit older had to be reprimanded for trying to climb a tree . |
| 11 | Films had to be delayed for shortage of money , and some cheques bounced . |
| 12 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 13 | There was such disruption at the entrance to Olympia that the start of the meeting had to be delayed for half an hour . |
| 14 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 15 | Er when you did get a suit it had to be kept for Sunday , for going to chapel you see , and if you were going to have a new suit it would always be at anniversary time , you did n't get one every anniversary . |
| 16 | Before that could be arranged she took very poorly one day and an ambulance had to be sent for — luckily one of the nearby farms had a telephone . |
| 17 | Station staff called the police , but the fighting became fiercer and reinforcements had to be sent for . |
| 18 | It was as if he were still competing for Martha : every return to harbour became a race between his ketch and Sam 's ; every catch had to be compared for weight and quality , and every new little luxury Harry purchased for himself or his wife had to be announced that evening in the Russell alehouse as further proof of his superiority . |
| 19 | which I suppose it might be difficult to see what had to be arranged for that with you there 's a regularity , but you know the Trone is obviously a |
| 20 | But it was no easy task , and heavy equipment had to be manhandled for about a mile from the nearest road . |
| 21 | The graves had to be searched for in what looked like a clearing in a pine wood , they were so thickly overgrown with grass and heather . |
| 22 | Dates had to be obtained for many of the sites before the historical sequence would become clearer . |
| 23 | The film had to be stopped for seven minutes , during which one man shouted through a loud-hailer , ‘ We , the National Front , protest against this anti-British rubbish , especially at the time of El Alamein . ’ |
| 24 | The crisis had wider effects , and the old techniques of social control had to be revised for rural England . |
| 25 | Under the US 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act , five conditions had to be met for the lifting of sanctions , of which only two had been met by the time of de Klerk 's visit ( entering into negotiations with black representatives and lifting the ban on democratic parties ) . |
| 26 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 27 | Something had to be done for her . |
| 28 | I think I basically saw it as something that had to be done for the authority and not as something that was going to lead to any change . |
| 29 | If a separate PCR had to be done for each possible pathogen on each samples the work involved and the cost would be major drawbacks . |
| 30 | That is , every word in the million-word corpus was assigned a tag indicating its grammatical category , and complex computer programs had to be written for this purpose . |