Example sentences of "had [prep] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever initial reasons people had for being attracted to Ian Paisley as a politician , the main reason for their support was their commitment to the principles he enunciated . |
| 2 | I mean , what if her car had of been broke into . |
| 3 | Socialism , in any case , had to be conceived as a ‘ global process ’ . |
| 4 | In consequence , all traces of this Messianic nationalism had to be eradicated or transformed . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the op went wrong and I had to be readmitted . |
| 6 | Later redefinition of the goal as ‘ providing transportation ’ removed the blinkers that had prevented them from realizing that cars were made largely in Detroit but had to be received in good condition in every State , and that driving them to their destination was expensive . |
| 7 | However , this was not to be since their drains were either late , abandoned , or non-existent , while promises of building sites were made and then had to be broken because of the absence of drains ! |
| 8 | The water in the basins had a layer of ice on them , which had to be broken before the children could wash ; then , in the dining room they sat shivering , for the fire at the end of the room did not take even the chill away . |
| 9 | The new ground that had to be broken in terms of the aerodynamics , structure , passenger handling facilities and runway bearing strength of these weighty monsters represents only a small fraction of the problems that beset the regulating authorities not only in the USA , where most of them are built , but throughout the world in all the places where they operate . |
| 10 | the guardian , not so much of particular Home Office policies , as of a certain Home Office approach to life which I was convinced had to be broken if future Home Secretaries were to avoid the St. Sebastian-like fate of Brooke and Soskice . |
| 11 | Not only did this new attitude towards children begin to emerge among educationalists in the middle decades of the eighteenth century , but we can deduce also from the success of small private academies , from the development of a new kind of children 's literature , and from the vastly increased expenditure on the amusements and pleasures of children , that parents , too , were no longer regarding their children as sprigs of old Adam whose wills had to be broken . |
| 12 | Union power had to be broken , and this was achieved by linking it with the breakdown in law and order . |
| 13 | Unfortunately a concrete path , provided by the builders , had to be broken up ; but it did provide a hardcore base for the paving . |
| 14 | It is possible that the writers may have decided , in each case , that the rule had to be broken in order to help the reader follow the sentence . |
| 15 | But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural . |
| 16 | H M Customs and Excise confirmed yesterday that they had to be implemented by 1 January 1990 . |
| 17 | Microprogramming was first used on a large scale in the IBM System/360 range of computers , where a common architecture and instruction set had to be implemented on a number of different models the range with widely-varying basic hardware . |
| 18 | In another measure , the Government extended the Landlord and Tenant Act protection to the licensed trade but they would not bring it in immediately — it had to be implemented some time in the future . |
| 19 | This broad policy decision had to be implemented by examining boards , schools and individual teachers . |
| 20 | To ensure continuous improvement a culture change , from a top-down approach to a team driven system , had to be implemented within Noble Metals . |
| 21 | The women on the part-time farms were often the only people around during the short winter days so all outside stock had to be attended to by them . |
| 22 | It is a sector where the multinationals dominated , but had to be coerced into action that produced export gains but at the price of deepening the dependence not just in the main products , but also in key component suppliers . |
| 23 | Thanks to his father 's pre-war prudence , a fortune was there ; it simply had to be deployed . |
| 24 | Whatever curves I specified had to be made using a bandsaw , a drum-sander , spokeshave and scraper . |
| 25 | However , when ballets were performed for the public , professional dancers took the place of courtiers and technical innovations had to be made . |
| 26 | As a result , the payment to Mrs Sutcliffe had to be made in a roundabout way . ’ |
| 27 | Since national expenditure reached 14 per cent of the prewar level in the first three-quarters of 1922 , huge currency issues had to be made to bridge the gap between income and expenditure . |
| 28 | First of all ‘ society ’ , as distinct from the State , had to be isolated and analysed , and secondly an attempt had to be made at understanding the evolution of society , since only then would it be possible to understand under what circumstances the State evolved and what its historical significance was . |
| 29 | Because raw cotton is an inflammable material , mills had to be made fireproof either in whole or in part . |
| 30 | Senior ministers last night emphasised that the British position had remained unchanged since the Madrid summit , where they had stressed that adequate preparation had to be made long before stages II and III of the Delors plan could be settled . |