Example sentences of "had to be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The Torah had to be made accessible in Greek both for religious service and for private reading . |
2 | Robert Lord 's basic story-line provided a marvellous portrait of an ordinary worker and a very telling ‘ explanation of the roots of political prejudice ’ but these details had to be made real on film . |
3 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
4 | The human losses mounted rapidly , and the extension of recruitment to those just eighteen years old and those already forty-five extended the worries about loved ones at the Front into almost every family , while at home their losses to farming and industry had to be made good , as far as possible , with more prisoners-of-war and ‘ foreign workers ’ . |
5 | In Europe the ravages of war had to be made good and then came the enlargement of universities , government institutes , and industrial establishments . |
6 | What had to be done was that motion pictures had to be made respectable . |
7 | It meant taking Weenie and Co. , who had to be made tidy and neat , so it was some time before their caravan set forth . |
8 | it had to be made clear that the Civil Rights Movement was not anti-constitutional . |
9 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
10 | Secondly , applications had to be made direct to the appropriate Secretary of State who , if not available , had to sign at the earliest possible opportunity ( though they could be issued initially by a civil servant ) . |
11 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
12 | De Marco inspected refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , although his tour of the Jabaliyah refugee camp in Gaza had to be cut short after disturbances erupted there . |
13 | On arrival , we were greeted by a ‘ Kaffen-und-Kucken ’ reception which had to be cut short . |
14 | My lecture had to be cut short , so that could drive me to the airport to catch the evening flight to Delhi . |
15 | Some were catapulted out of smashed windows , while others were trapped and had to be cut free . |
16 | A NUDE model had to be cut free by firemen yesterday after she got plastered — literally . |
17 | Rex was trapped by his legs and had to be cut free . |
18 | They had to be cut free . |
19 | He had to be cut free . |
20 | The driver of that car was injured and had to be cut free … two people in a second car which hit the transporter 's tractor unit are also hurt |
21 | The 32-year-old pay office clerk , of Griffiths Close , Yarm , who was pregnant , had to be cut free from the wreckage by fireman . |
22 | John Byrne , 64 , of Cleveland Avenue , Trimdon Village , had to be cut free from his car after the collision at 11.40 am yesterday . |
23 | The dead man , who has n't been named , had to be cut free from his car . |
24 | The plan was also prepared in a different way from those drafted by the US divisions , as it had to be to give proper consideration to the problems and needs of a totally different planning environment . |
25 | ‘ It had to be kept simple so it could be translated into different languages ( the show will tour Europe in the autumn ) , but it is dangerously close to the P-word , ’ giggles Gibson . |
26 | So , a wife carefully distinguished her property from her husband 's , for the marriage could end , requiring a division of goods ; or her husband could marry a second wife , or a third , and wives ' property had to be kept distinct . |
27 | The affair had to be kept secret , or the scandal within the hospital would irrevocably damage his career . |
28 | It was what was going on in my mind that had to be kept secret , on pain of interference , on pain of ridicule , on pain of punishment and , inevitably , on pain of self-understanding . |
29 | Pigs had to be kept near to the farmstead , probably in nearby closes , but they could be taken to wastes and pasture and , of course , woodland , where traditionally they ate acorns and beechmast . |
30 | The Israelite people had to be kept free of contamination from outside sources , especially the corrupting influence of Canaanite religion . |